In the course of three days-long festivities this week, Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos are scheduled to tie the knot on the remote island of San Giovanni Evangelista in Venice.
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos and journalist Lauren Sánchez are to finally tie the knot – despite concerns wedding crashers are poised to strike.
Protesters with Greenpeace and the UK-based activist group Everyone Hates Elon (EHE) are braced to express their fury at the extravagant affair, which will see 200 guests enjoy a pre-wedding gala dinner tomorrow night and then several other festivities across three days.
Mr Bezos, 61, has already had to amend plans, though, because Venice residents have threatened to blockade the city’s historic canals with inflatable crocodiles. They are so unhappy the billionaire “will shutting down Venice” that Mr Bezos has scrambled to move the ceremony itself from the 16th-century Scuola Grande della Misericordia to Arsenale, a vast, fortress-like complex of shipyards and warehouses once used to build Venetian warships.
The star is determined for the occasion to go ahead without any further snags as he has been dating Miss Sánchez, a news reporter, for some seven years. It is likely no challenges will arise once the 200 guests, including Kim Kardashian and her mother Kris Jenner, descend on the tiny island of San Giovanni Evangelista for Thursday’s dinner. Just 11 people live on the island and its only dwelling is a modest five-bedroom home, previously the guesthouse to a convent which was part of a long-destroyed monastery complex.
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However, EHE and Greenpeace protesters posted a huge 20x20m message close to the location of Mr. Bezos’s planned marriage on mainland Venice, where the majority of the guests will stay and board a boat to the island.
The banner, in the city’s famous St Mark’s Square, reads: “IF YOU CAN RENT VENICE FOR YOUR WEDDING YOU CAN PAY MORE TAX.” The groups complain Mr Bezos, a father of four, is the second-richest man in the world yet is reported to pay a 1.1% true tax rate.
Jeff Bezos can afford to shut down a city for days on end just to get married, according to a spokesperson for EHE. He spent millions on an 11-minute space trip just a few weeks ago. This is the one thing that billionaires like Bezos should pay their wealth taxes if there ever was one.
There are more billionaires than ever in the world, despite the struggles of the average person to pay their bills. These two things are undoubtedly related because we are paying a premium for them. Tax billionaires like Jeff Bezos are now doing it, not rocket science.
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The billionaire, according to some, reportedly anticipated the negative feedback by utilizing San Giovanni Evangelista as an emergency precaution to avoid any unintended fuss. This is a wise decision, according to a wedding planner who spoke yesterday. Wonderful, very clever, and not obvious.
But another source told Mail Online they believe Mr Bezos to be “unlucky”, having ended up “picking [one of] the worst days to get married”. They alluded to the conflict between Iran and Israel which remains tense despite Donald Trump’s claims a ceasefire was reached on Monday.
And Mr Trump was expected at the wedding but, due to the tensions in the Middle East, it is anticipated the Republican leader will miss the ceremony on Friday. The guest list is, though, full of stars from across the world, notably in wealthy showbusiness circles.
Source: Mirror
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