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Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez – how it started vs how it’s going: the Amazon billionaire seems as besotted as ever, but what about that Leonardo DiCaprio incident, and are the pair finally engaged?

Lucky in love and successful in business – Jeff Bezos and a blissed-out Lauren Sánchez. Photo: @laurenwsanchez/Instagram
Lucky in love and successful in business – Jeff Bezos and a blissed-out Lauren Sánchez. Photo: @laurenwsanchez/Instagram
Jeff Bezos

  • The couple got off to a rocky start after their relationship was outed by a US tabloid while the Blue Origin founder was still married to MacKenzie Scott
  • But from a star-studded birthday bash attended by Timothée Chalamet and Katy Perry to holidays in St. Barts, Sánchez seems to be having a blast with Bezos

When Jeff Bezos and ex-wife MacKenzie Scott announced their split, we wouldn’t have blamed them for wanting to play the field after 26 years of marriage. But to everyone’s surprise, Bezos quickly settled down again with the striking Lauren Sánchez. So who exactly is she and how did she end up dating one of the richest men in the world?

The apple of Bezos’s eye

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Sanchez captioned this shot of the pair: “Mi Lugar favorito del mundo, es a tu lado” (My favourite place in the world is by your side). Photo: @laurenwsanchez/Instagram
Sanchez captioned this shot of the pair: “Mi Lugar favorito del mundo, es a tu lado” (My favourite place in the world is by your side). Photo: @laurenwsanchez/Instagram
As a result of her new beau Bezos – Amazon founder and the world’s second-richest man with a net worth of US$198 billion – Sánchez, 51 suddenly found her private life thrust into the spotlight. Their whirlwind romance reportedly started with a fling back in January 2018 while Bezos, 57, was still married to Scott.
Sánchez has expressed her excitement and pride at boyfriend Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin successes in the past year. Photo: @laurenwsanchez/Instagram
Sánchez has expressed her excitement and pride at boyfriend Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin successes in the past year. Photo: @laurenwsanchez/Instagram

In a scandalous splash in The National Enquirer, the tabloid declared that the pair had begun seeing each other in secret before Bezos and MacKenzie had separated. In fact, The Enquirer said it had tracked the couple “across five states and 40,000 miles, tailed them in private jets, swanky limos, helicopter rides, romantic hikes, five-star hotel hideaways, intimate dinner dates and ‘quality time’ in hidden love nests”.

However by July 2019, the lovers had left all shyness behind. They openly declared their union first as a couple at Wimbledon tennis tournament that summer, and then relaxing on a luxury yacht off the Caribbean island of St. Barts. As might be expected of her wealthy boyfriend, Bezos then threw her a lavish 50th birthday bash, inviting famous guests like Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom and Timothée Chalamet.