Jeff Bezos, the second richest man in the world, got engaged to his girlfriend

The founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezosand his girlfriend, former journalist Lauren Sanchez, have become engaged after five years of a relationship that began when the billionaire was still married to his first wife, MacKenzie Scott.

The proposal came last week after the couple touched down in the Balearic Islands to debut the $500 million, 420-foot superyacht Koru that Bezos had built in the Netherlands.

The second richest man in the world, with a fortune of 137.8 billion dollars, according to Forbes, 59, proposed to his girlfriend in a private celebration between the two of them in Ibiza or Mallorca, but they kept their engagement secret for years. first days, according to Page Six reports from sources close to the couple.

Although Sánchez, 53, was seen wearing her new 20-carat ring for the first time on May 21, she was already wearing the jewel in multiple photos taken days earlier by paparazzi during the couple’s lavish vacation.

It wasn’t until the couple arrived in the south of France to attend the Cannes Film Festival when they finally confirmed the news to those attending a star-studded Vanity Fair party.

“There they told everyone that they were engaged; they were so excited. They are completely in love,” confirmed an anonymous source present at the event. Before the party held last Saturday, the couple attended the preview of the film ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’, by director Martin Scorsese, in which Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro participate.

The Amazon owner’s wife-to-be did not wear the engagement ring at the event, but was photographed a day later with the jewel on her fiancé’s boat. That same night, the former journalist flaunted the ring, which cost between $2.5 million and $3.5 million, while she dined with her partner, his sister Christina Bezos and her husband Steve Poore. .

Divorces and luxury life
The couple have not hidden their passion in public since they both divorced from their previous partners. In January 2019, Bezos separated from his first wife, MacKenzie Scott, after 25 years of marriage with a divorce agreement in which she kept 4% of Amazon valued at 35,000 million dollars. The ex-partner has four children together.

Scott, 53, married in California in March 2021 with Dan Jewett, a science professor from Seattle, from whom he separated a year later without his fortune, estimated by Forbes at around 30.9 billion dollars, suffered. .

Sánchez, for his part, resolved his divorce from the executive president of the communication company Endeavour, Patrick Whitesell, in October 2019, after 13 years of union and two children in common. She has a previous child from her relationship with NFL player Tony González.

In July 2021, Bezos left his position as CEO of the distribution giant in the hands of Andy Jassy, ​​previously the head of Amazon Web Services, to become simply the chief executive.

Since then, the couple has made numerous public appearances, always very lovey-dovey and sporting youthful looks that they have now taken to the waters of the Balearic Islands and the Costa Azul on the yacht, whose figurehead bears an image of her. The date of the wedding, for the moment, is unknown.