Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez get engaged

The founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, and his girlfriend, the former journalist of Mexican origin Lauren Sanchez, have become engaged, as reported by CNN, citing someone close to the couple as a source of the news about the upcoming wedding. A next link that the magazine has also confirmed People. The engagement between the billionaire businessman, 59, and the Emmy Award-winning journalist, 53, occurred while the couple was on holiday in the south of France. During the past weekend, both were photographed sailing through the area aboard the luxury superyacht. Koru —valued at half a billion dollars— and attended the premiere of the film on Saturday Killers of the Flower Moon, the new Martin Scorsese film in which Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro participate and which they presented at the Cannes Film Festival. Some photographs in which many now make zoom to Lauren Sanchez’s huge ring.

“Her engagement ring is beyond stunning. And huge! She keeps playing with it and looking at it. You can tell that she loves it ”, a source close to the couple told People. “She proposed to him last week. They are in the cloud, so happy and madly in love, “says another source to the same publication.

Bezos and Sanchez, born into a Mexican-American family in Albuquerque, New Mexico, made their relationship public in early 2019, while both were in the process of separating from their respective partners. The businessman’s new relationship became known very shortly after the richest man in the world at the time announced his divorce from MacKenzie Scott, with whom he shares four children and was married for 25 years. In fact, Bezos confirmed his new relationship on February 7 of that year, just a month after the announcement of his divorce, so many saw this as the reason for his breakup. Since the two began their courtship, they have kept the details of their life together private, although they have been photographed while attending some events and have already begun to share moments of their lives on their social networks.

At the time, the former co-host of the show Good Day LA —Fox morning show for which he won an Emmy— she was also divorcing her husband, celebrity manager Patrick Whitesell, after 13 years of marriage. Sanchez is also a helicopter pilot, has two children with him and another from a previous relationship with former NFL star Tony González. As she herself points out in his profile on Instagram, where she has 291,000 followers, today she also serves as vice president of the Bezos Earth Fund, a philanthropic organization founded to fight climate change and protect nature. Sanchez also founded in 2016 a company specialized in aerial recordings called Black Ops Aviation, which has worked for films such as Dunkirkby Christopher Nolan, and with clients such as Sony, Fox or Amazon.

In 2022, the couple gave their first joint interview to the US network CNN at their home in Washington, in which they talked about their philanthropic work and the charitable causes in which the billionaire, one of the richest men in the world, was involved (Forbes calculates a fortune of 137,000 million dollars). After her divorce, Mackenzie Bezos kept 25% of the shares that the couple had in Amazon, the company they created together more than two decades ago and which is the basis of their fortune. An agreement that she herself announced through her Twitter account.

In addition to being the founder of Amazon, a company of which he ceased to be the CEO at the beginning of 2021, Bezos is also the founder of the space company Blue Origin and traveled to space in July 2021 aboard a rocket flight New Shepard of that company. Sanchez told CNN that she, too, plans to go into space in the next few years and that she will be joined by “a great group of women.”