Topline
Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos is engaged to Lauren Sánchez, his partner of more than four years, CNN reported Monday.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 07: Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez attend Tom Ford: Autumn/Winter … [+]
Key Facts
Bezos and Sánchez, a former broadcast journalist, went public as a couple in 2019, shortly after they both divorced their then-spouses.
The couple has kept their private life largely out of the press, but reports of their engagement spread Monday after photos surfaced of the pair on Bezos’ yacht in which Sánchez appeared to be wearing a wedding ring.
Bezos was previously married to MacKenzie Scott, with whom he has four children, for 25 years.
Forbes Valuation
We estimate that Bezos is worth $137.8 billion as of Monday evening, making him the third-richest person in the world.
Key Background
Bezos and Sánchez, who had been seeing each other since 2018, were publicly outed as a couple by the National Enquirer in January 2019, one day after Bezos and his then-wife Scott filed for divorce. The National Enquirer said it had tracked Bezos and Sánchez—while they were still in other relationships—“across five states and 40,000 miles” in efforts to document the extramarital affair. Though Bezos admitted to the affair, he maintained the tabloid had the story “wrong and out of order.” Bezos accused the National Enquirer of “extortion and blackmail,” and launched an investigation of his own into how the tabloid obtained photos and texts between him and Sánchez and photos revealing he’d had an affair. Bezos also suggested the attacks on him could be politically motivated, alluding to the National Enquirer‘s ties to then-President Donald Trump and the Saudi government, both of which were subjected to tough reporting by the Washington Post, which Bezos owns. In a post on Medium, Bezos claimed that the National Enquirer tried to blackmail him with nude photos if he wouldn’t admit the tabloid’s coverage of his affair was apolitical.
Further Reading
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez are engaged (CNN)
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2023/05/22/billionaire-jeff-bezos-engaged-to-partner-lauren-snchez-report-says/