Pop star Mariah Carey appeared to make a subtle remark about Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s wedding amid controversy surrounding the star-studded nuptials in Italy
Mariah Carey has entertained fans with her sassy remark about Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s star-studded wedding. The billionaire Amazon boss caused controversy over his $50million nuptials in Italy.
He tied the knot in Venice despite threats and protests by anti-capitalists and locals. The 25-minute wedding ceremony saw the pair exchange vows in front of around 200 high profile guests, including the Kardashian-Jenners, Orlando Bloom and Oprah Winfrey, as well as Ivanka Trump and her family.
Rania Al Abdullah, the Queen of Jordan also watched on, as did supermodels, actors and business-people. However, among those not on the guest list was Mariah.
The singer, 56, was asked her thoughts on the lavish wedding, with fans thinking she threw some subtle shade at the newlyweds in her response. While out over the weekend, a photographer asked: “What did you think about Jeff Bezos’ wedding?”
In the clip, which has since gone viral, Mariah quipped: “I wasn’t there.” Many fans thought her three-word response struck a familiar cord with Mariah’s infamous “I don’t know her” line about Jennifer Lopez in 2003.
Mariah was probed even further about Bezos and Sanchez as she was asked: “Were you not invited or what?” The Grammy winner responded: “Oh, don’t turn this into that.”
Fans loved Mariah’s witty response as one said: “I don’t think she knows them [crying emoji].” Another joked: “Who? What wedding she doesn’t know it.” Someone else commented: “Her saying I wasn’t there she clearly knows who he is come on.”
“Love she had a sense of humor about it,” praised another. Jeff and Lauren caused controversy with their wedding, and the high profile guests have also received backlash for attending.
Protestors gathered in Venice at Santa Lucia train station armed with banners that read “If you can rent Venice for your wedding, you can pay more tax.” The demonstration is believed to have been organised by the No Space For Bezos group.
A few members of the group were seen laden with Amazon boxes that had the words “ordered, shipped, delivered, rejected” written on them. Not only did people on social media criticise the wedding, so did Hollywood celebrities like Charlize Theron and Rosie O’Donnell.
Charlize spoke about the nuptials while at the fifth annual block party for her charity, Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project and said she was okay with not getting an invitation.
“I think we might be the only people who did not get an invite to the Bezos wedding, but that’s okay because they suck and we’re cool,” the Oscar winner said. She went on to thank people for coming to her charity event, “especially when the world feels like it’s burning because it is.”
Rosie O’Donnell also criticised Jeff in the form of a poem shared on her Substack. “It turned my stomach / Seeing all these billionaires / Gathering in the gross excess of it all / The show of it,” she wrote.
“Is Oprah friends with Jeff Bezos / Really – how is that possible / He treats his employees with disdain / By any metric he is not a nice man.”
She then took aim at Lauren before hyping up his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott. “And his fake fem bot wife / Who looks like that / Why would he choose her / After the salt of the earth Mackenzie.”
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