Jeff Bezos’ extravagant Venice marriage ceremony to Lauren Sánchez over the weekend drew loads of well-known faces — and sharp criticism from Charlize Theron, who known as out the star visitors and the Amazon founder’s assist of Donald Trump.
Throughout her fifth Block Social gathering for the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project, the actress opened her speech by joking about their collective exclusion from Bezos and Sánchez’s visitor record. “I feel we is perhaps the one individuals who didn’t get an invitation to the Bezos marriage ceremony,” she mentioned. “However that’s okay as a result of they suck and we’re cool.”
She additional dug into Bezos’ assist of Trump and his radical and hurtful insurance policies towards immigrants, ladies, and queer folks. “Right here in Los Angeles, within the US and throughout the globe, we’re transferring backwards quick. Immigration coverage has destroyed the lives of households, not criminals; ladies’s rights have gotten much less and fewer on daily basis; queer and trans lives are more and more being erased; and gender-based violence is on the rise,” Theron mentioned. “This isn’t simply coverage, it’s private.”
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Bezos beforehand maintained a terse relationship with Trump throughout his first presidential time period, however has since been extra supportive of him in recent times. In 2024, The Washington Publish, which Bezos bought in 2013, ceased its custom of endorsing a presidential candidate indefinitely, citing “readers’ skill to make up their very own minds,” however many hypothesized Bezos blocked a Kamala Harris endorsement for concern of retribution from Trump.
Bezos later congratulated Trump after he received the 2024 presidential election on Twitter: “Large congratulations to our forty fifth and now forty seventh President on a rare political comeback and decisive victory. No nation has greater alternatives,” he tweeted. “Wishing [Donald Trump] all success in main and uniting the America all of us love.” He additionally attended Trump’s inauguration sitting alongside Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Elon Musk.
Celebrities who attended Bezos and Sánchez’s marriage ceremony included Sydney Sweeney, Usher, Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kim Kardashian, and Kylie and Kendall Jenner, amongst others, whereas Ellie Goulding and Matteo Bocelli carried out on the couple’s reception.
Theron wasn’t the one one who spoke out: Venice locals protested the lavish occasion reported to price in extra of $50 million, and environmental group Greenpeace blasted Bezos for paying low taxes, unfurling a large banner in St. Mark’s Sq. that learn, “For those who can hire Venice on your marriage ceremony, you’ll be able to pay extra tax.”
Bezos stepped down as Amazon CEO in 2021, however stays its govt chairman as of 2025.
