To be clear, I think multiple things can be true about this Jeff Bezos story all at once. I think Jeff Bezos was openly having an affair with Lauren Sanchez months before he and his wife MacKenzie separated. I think his affair was the reason why his marriage is ending. I think he’s trying to put a positive spin on all of it, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if he had hired a ton of crisis managers and PR professionals to handle this story. I also think it’s shady as f–k that Bezos only made the divorce announcement because the National Enquirer had been doing a multi-month investigation into his personal life. The National Enquirer is tied so closely to Donald Trump, and Trump believes Bezos is his enemy, so the Enquirer went after the president’s enemy with the most lurid story they could find. It’s all pretty gross and there are no heroes. Anyway, onto the mistress rollout!
Jeff Bezos and his new girlfriend Lauren Sanchez are going strong in the wake of their relationship going public.
“They’re madly in love and stronger than ever,” a source close to the new couple tells PEOPLE a week after the Amazon CEO (worth $137 billion) announced his split from MacKenzie Bezos, his wife of 25 years. The exes have four children: three sons and a daughter. Sanchez, 49, is also divorcing her husband, Hollywood agent Patrick Whitesell, PEOPLE confirmed. The two have been married for 13 years and share two children together. She also has a son from a previous relationship. Sanchez and Whitesell are working with celebrity divorce attorney Laura Wasser to mediate their split.
Shortly after Bezos, 55, announced his divorce, the National Enquirer published a months-long investigation into him and his relationship with the news anchor and actress. A source previously told PEOPLE that Sanchez has a “bubbly” and “social” personality.
“She’s very social — always has been and always will be,” the source said. She’s the kind of person who at 49 will still grab a group of girlfriends and helicopter to the desert for a weekend at Coachella. On the face of it, she seems like the polar opposite of Bezos, but maybe that’s why he was so drawn to her,” the insider added.
As I said, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that Bezos has hired all of the best PR people. They told him it didn’t even matter that he had an affair and betrayed his wife of 25 years just as long as he could wrap up his infidelity as a true love affair which will stand the test of time. I don’t need to hear that Bezos and Lauren Sanchez are “stronger than ever,” as if they’ve weathered some real tragedy or difficult circumstance. Please. They had an affair and now they’re both divorcing their spouses and they’re trying to put a bow on it and pretend like this isn’t a huge, gross mess.
Photos courtesy of Getty.
Is she cross-eyed?
I’m wondering the same. I have also seen women get serious wonk eye from botched botox.
Kind of looks like it. A lot of people get it surgically corrected as children but in adulthood it can go back. I think you can get surgery on it as an adult as well but there’s no gaurantee of success and you run the risk of pretty serious complications like permanent double vision.
It sure does look like it for her. I’m pretty sure he has ptosis (droopy eye lid). You can tell because one eye is smaller than the other. I guess that’s what they are bonding on.
It may not be crossed, but it’s definitely wonky.
Yeah, they are definitely going about this all wrong. Be a little more contrite about it, not “we’re stronger than ever!”
Yeah ….. this gives me the”guy married to a good woman for a long time gets tripped up on his own balls” vibes. Hes just in over his own head… they dont necessarily got anythign special except hunger and thirst it seems
Is it just me or do each of them have one wonky eye
I think they each do and it must have been a real meet-cute.
LOL LOL Darla!
Holiday….
Is that the meet-cute movie?
Perhaps this is what truly drew them to each other.
NO its not just you. And it seems like its the same one for both of them.
Yes!! And it’s the same eye on each of them . They match. I think hers is caused by unfortunate plastic surgery.
He thought she was winking at him.
She thought he was winking at her.
I literally had hot coffee in my mouth while reading this and spit it out, ouch, and hilarious.
Can’t breathe…Remy!!!
RemyRed 😂😂😂😂
Trash. Mackenzie can do better.
Not to be mean but that’s some of the worst plastic surgery I have seen. Maybe she can get her new billionaire boyfriend to fix her face?
Yes, her surgery is not the best. She was pretty before.
I agree her face is a botch job. But does it clearly doesn’t matter since it was good enough to nab the richest man in the world. Makes clear that looks aren’t everything k guess.
he’s a real strange bird. No hunter mentality. I mean, he could have anyone he wants basically, but he definitely goes for proximity. first wife and now this one-they have to be directly under his nose. this is not a man who likes to play the field.
Right? Not a good look, yikes.
Yep. Huge. Gross. Mess.
Is it wrong that I am kind of, ‘blah’ about this. I mean, I love a good old fashioned adultry gossip story like the next person, but this one feels like a big old shrug.
Now, if there was a in depth story coming about his business practices, sign me up. That needs to happen now.
Yeah, business dullard dumps ageing wife for ageing TV presenter with bad surgeries. The wife will make out like a bandit financially (hello business started in their garage post marriage) and he’s no prize so I’m with you – shrug.
“Ageing”? So we are judging middle aged men for preferring women their own age now?
It’s a lot better than a man his age dating a 19 year old.
Who knows the state of their marriages before they met, anyway. It’s not so unusual for people to lose their attraction to each other after years of marriage. People change and they don’t always change in the same direction. For all we know, the only hiding they were doing was from the media and their spouses knew all about it.
Bruno Betelheim once pointed out that typically in olden times, both long-lived men and women often went through several spouses, although the most common reason was death of the spouse. But he said they didn’t get a chance to get tired of each other.
So maybe today’s divorce pattern isn’t so new after all. Maybe it’s always been only a certain fraction lucky enough to find a forever life partner or who know how to make it forever (takes work).
I remember reading about Japanese wives wanting a divorce after their husband retired and was suddenly underfoot all day… Their marriages last through the child raising period and while the guy is busy at work all day. Then it all falls apart, at least for the woman who suddenly has a large child to take care of all the time. So stuff happens.
It is a bit of a shrug, though his weird texts were funny for about five minutes. I was surprised at first that he went for an age appropriate mistress. She looks like any other suburban gym mom, honestly. Maybe she’s really charismatic or something.
Yeah, I feel exactly the same way about it. It’s a big nothingburger. There’s nothing particularly unique or prurient about the affair AND he’s just famous for being a rich business person which is not the same as celebrity, so it’s just not very intriguing. Rich man has an affair, news at 11.
edited to add: I guess the one unique thing in all this is that he chose an age appropriate mistress. But that just makes it less gross and more shrug-of-the-shoulders for me. It sucks for his wife if it’s true they weren’t separated and I feel for her but it doesn’t really deserve any inches in a newspaper.
Gross. Even if this is a true love match, which I doubt, why put it out there and insult the decades long relationship he abandoned for his neighbor’s wife? I mean come the f*ck on!
Yeah it’s really tone deaf. I’m sure the kids love hearing/reading this.
I think Bezos is one og the most egotistical, narcissistic and considers himself a demi-god. He treats his employees as less than human, always puts a spin on bad PR as a few disgruntled employees. Plus given his wealth, he has made no attempts to donate or develop any programs for those less for Ute. Look at the Gates family, great example.But my biggest anger comes from the fact that he steals sellers products, that do well, alternates the search on amazon and destroys these peoples livelihood.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-27/amazon-s-copy-cat-products-targeted-as-eu-quizzes-smaller-rivals
Everyone in this lurid tale disgusts me…
And it has NOTHING to do with the cheating and divorce….
Ugh this chick sounds like a real peach. Helicopter’s to a weekend at Coachella? Has a gift of convincing everyone to do what she wants. Is very bubbly and social. We ALL know what she is like.
Bezos never came across as perky. Only a matter of time before that relationship fizzles. If he marries her I hope he’s smart enough to have a prenup.
I burst out laughing at the Coachella line. Wow! So spontaneous and free-spirited! bahahahaha
I feel bad for all the kids involved. Can you imagine having your parent cheat on the other parent with your neighbor, and then have it be all over the internet and on grocery newsstands and even the president of the US is making fun of your family over it?
I agree, but I think it’s a bit different when you are an uber rich kid. My daughter goes to a private school, and a good portion of the kids drive up in Tesla’s, Porche’s etc., but having to get to know some of them, the kid’s just have a different perspective, not always good, but also not alway bad. Pretty much a different life than most deal with, and honestly better prepared than most to deal with this kind of thing. This situation may not be pleasant, but not sure for them it’s different than most divorces. Still bad, but….
I’m not sure how being rich makes things easier for kids. I think you can’t know how a kid might react, regardless of socioeconomic status. That’s sort of like saying rich people shoudn’t ever be depressed and we know that’s not how the illness works.
This whole story makes me a bit annoyed I left my Amazon job last year. If I had only held on for one more year I might have more insider info (probably not but the office gossip would be so much fun). But after five years I was ready to move on to other things.
Nothing about this story surprises me though… least of all that they met through his Blue Origin project. It’s been awhile since Bezos was super invested in Amazon. It just seems his focus has been more with Blue Origin for awhile.
Yah she aint no gold digger 😒. Oh well 7 childrens lives turned upside down but but but they’re in LUV. This chick has been trading up for years and he’s stupid enough to believe its not about the money.
^ 100%
His four children are all in their teens (oldest is at least 19, maybe 20 by now; youngest might be 14 or 15) and since he and his wife had been separated for quite a while, it’s not a sure thing that they feel their lives have been turned upside down. If he remains friendly with their mother and attentive to them when they want him to be, they might be fine with it.
The new technology has been a real game changer for parents needing to keep in good contact with children when they no longer live in the same house. Smartphones can do video calls any time you want. This has to help especially with very young children, but it makes a big difference for adolescents also.
And of course there is money to travel for all of them any time. Very different than for poorer folk.
I don’t know the situation with the woman in his current relationship.
While looking for his children’s ages, found out that he took his name from his adoptive stepfather, Miguel Bezos, who is a Cuban immigrant and married his mother when he was 3 or 4 years old. She had been a teenager when he was born. A Cuban immigrant for a dad! Practically a Mexican! No wonder Trump hates him. Well, Bezos’ $90 billion net worth might be part of that dislike also. Bezos is richer than Putin! Even after his divorce, he still might be richer than Trump’s idol.
I think Bezos’ statement about he & his wife already having been separated, was a load of bullsh*t. He & Mackenzie were still very much together quite recently–they just had a party at a club to celebrate their wedding anniversary in the fall, at which time they were still very much together. I think the “We’ve been separated for a while” line was just put out there by his PR people to make this whole story look not so bad to the public.
I read somewhere that he is giving Mackenzie exactly 50% of his fortune. That she worked double shifts to give them both insurance while he was trying to built Amazon.
Give her? Split with her?
No prenup, that is their fortune, he’s just the face in front of the $$$.
It doesn’t sound as though he has any problem with splitting it down the middle. He could not have built Amazon without her help and that’s where the money came from. It’s half hers. No evidence so far that he doesn’t realize that it is bothered by it.
He doesn’t strike me as someone who loves money for money’s sake. He has skatillions, and half of skatillions is still skatillions. To an outside observer, he is obviously looking for ways to spend his money, not hoard it. Nobody buys a print newspaper these days expecting to make a fortune on it.
There’s no prenup. Go get you $64 billion, MacKenzie!
She will get more than that because they have real estate. I would take the change out of his pockets.
Seven kids between them. Those are going to be some epic stepfamily dynamics. I’m sure the kids are not feeling the affair as “true love…stronger than ever”. As a daughter of a father who married my mother’s former friend, his now wife, it’s really awkward.
Its more than awkward,its a nightmare..For my family the atmosphere is always toxic..
He is going to leave her for someone younger in a couple of years.
Or
She will get bored of him and will find someone younger and rich in the future.
Excellent point. Sometimes they just want somebody to “get them out” of a stable relationship (see Affleck & the Nanny), then they move on to the person they really want to be with.
I love me a good, successful social climbing story. You get yours, Becky Sharpe! Take what you can, give nothing back, etc. She is completely transparent about who she is and what she wants. Jeff is so dumb, but I won’t hate on anyone trying to get what they want. The consequences of their own actions will be punishment enough.
Yes it’s kind of gross, and we all know too much cause of social media and the inability of some to stop texting stuff we all get to read, but probably shouldn’t. It’s like the old answering machine tapes, just more of it. However, the reality is Mackenzie helped him start Amazon, and was in a high leadership position especially through the early tough years. She’ll rightfully get half of everything, so this will be interesting. Still puts both of them wealthier than Trump. Plus it’s interesting how much Trump and the Enquirer went after him. I mean Trump’s election really showed people don’t care about affairs of other people. I mean are people going to stop buying on Amazon or reading the Washington Post because of this? Honestly if Bezos treats Mackenzie and the kids well with the divorce, who will care that much. I think Bezos will do that, as this roll out seems to be his very calculated attempt at that. Plus his attempt at showing us it’s love he couldn’t deny. Sure whatever, but unlike Trump his mistress is age appropriate. He didn’t just trade one in for a younger one, like Trump did. Trump’s main m.o. is to make sure he exposes everyone else’s sins, which just happen to be the one’s he’s oh too familiar with committing.
I wonder if Bezos will find a way to go after Trump after the dust settles. He is rich for real and it seems he is no angel himself. If the story is true that Trump and the Enquirer went after him and he is the type to hold grudges…oh well this would be better than e telenovela
Bezos doesn’t seem to waste his time on vengeance like Trump. He has a variety of interests and the $$$ to pursue them. He also is a real risk taker and isn’t afraid to try something and fail, which gives him a lot of options. Bezos seems to be pretty much ignoring Trump’s nonsensical comments about him.
Of course, the fact that Bezos owns the Washington Post (pretty much guaranteeing that it will survive this transitional period that has hit print media so hard and that, unlike other newspapers, they won’t have to cut their journalist staff) bothers Trump so much, he hardly has to do anything else to poke at Trump daily.
I love this line: “She’s the kind of person who at 49 will still grab a group of girlfriends and helicopter to the desert for a weekend at Coachella.”
I can’t believe this type of behavior passes for fun-loving. It’s simply tasteless. After age 40, no woman should be taking her girlfriends anywhere by helicopter. Decorum demands a private plane or train.
I agree!
49 yrs old and having nasty affairs with married men and “girls” weekends at the millennial mecca Coachella?
She sounds like trash running around conducting herself like a teenager. Grow up lady
Can we not do this?
@Ellie
You’re hilarious! I agree completely.
I think MacKenzie was blindsided by this and my heart goes out to her and all those kids.
Never having been a Jeff Bezos fan, even less so now (heard too many rumours about him being a snake and how badly Amazon treats its employees). When I was teaching business English courses 18+ years ago, my prediction was that Amazon would go bankrupt, being a failing used book selling service at the time.
Le sigh.
Let’s just hope everyone gets through this with the support, compassion and resources they need to move on peacefully.
I agree, Kitten.
There’s an age limit for going to Coachella with your friends or hiring a helicopter? I did not know that. 😳
@jwoolman and kitten – It is sarcasm, y’all.
Um, I think Ellie was being sarcastic in her post, and was making the exact same point that you guys are: that the comment in the article about Lauren being oddly old for a weekend at Coachella, was ridiculous.
I still can’t wrap my mind around the amount of money up for grabs in this divorce. Not millions , but BILLIONS!
To be honest if Trump’s little toy the National Enquirer spent months looking for the “most lurid” story it could find on his enemy and this is the worst one….meh? Especially when Trump’s story is sex assault, harassment, racism, and failed businesses.
Bezo is a gross, awful cheater and the mistress is disgusting of course….but it was a consensual adult relationship. I hope the wife walks away with BILLIONS but other than embarrassing him (and let’s face it he’s pretty shameless) nothing was accomplished.
As I said to someone the other day; my opinion on the Bezo’s affair is that Amazon should improve wages and working conditions for their employees. The rest? Don’t care.
Yes, he’s a cheater and he shouldn’t have done it. Still just as I don’t delve into the Trump’s marriage, except for the occasional laugh, I don’t really care that much. Mackenzie will get 50% and probably just hold on to her Amazon stock as she helped build it too. She might sell a bit back to Jeff, but I doubt she will sell much back so I doubt the company will change. The wages at Amazon have gone up a bit, probably through some public and political pressure. Although still not a living wage, $15 an hour and $17, where I live, is better than minimum wage. If Amazon, as a large employer, could up it even more the other smaller companies will follow suit. This is the important issue, not the other things.
$15 or $17 per hour are a lot better than minimum wage, which is only $7 per hour.
Trump is on record saying he thought $7/hour is plenty to live on. That hasn’t been true for decades even where I live, in a lower cost of living area supposedly.
Why does this woman have to look like a Housewife? And I mean that in the most derogative of terms. And why isn’t he upset she leaked their personal info???? She must be doing something he can’t buy on Amazon.
That’s what I’ve been wondering, apparently she forwarded all of his texts including his genitalia selfie to her friend who then spilled them to the Enquirer. And he’s not the least bit miffed about that incredible indiscretion? You have to wonder if she spilled to her friend on purpose to help trigger his divorce…
Of course she did. Bezos probably wanted to keep the family and mistress and she forced his hand. After all this he’s “still in love” he’s an incredible schmuck.
My fascination lies in Lauren showing Bezos’ texts and photos to her “friend” who then slipped that info to the Enquirer. Lauren is obviously a social climber with a knack for reading people – why would she underestimate this person who went on to rat her out (and are they still friends?)?
Or, was the info leak all a scheme by Lauren to force Jeff’s hand so that he would divorce his wife? And, why would a man as rich as Jeff Bezos not understand the value of having a partner who is discreet (although, I guess if they were having an affair in the open, discretion must not matter to him)? How can you be that smart in business and that dumb in life? Is the sex really that great and worth that much to him?
Someday, I am going to enroll in the (Lauren) Sanchez, (Jessica) Seinfeld and (Judith) Giuliani School of Goldigging. I don’t want a degree in it, I just want to understand the dynamics of it.
Maybe he doesn’t care anymore. I mean who knows what it’s like to be a multi-billionaire, and what goes in their heads. Someone up above said he doesn’t really work much at Amazon anymore, and he’s on his other project Blue Origin. I know he has very little input in the Washington Post. I kind of think this affair was known by many people, especially his wife, for a while, and he probably didn’t want to divorce Mackenzie cause dividing assets of this type have to be a pain. Lauren probably did push him to it, cause he was just happy with the status quo. You know who wins on this is the lawyers and accountants.
Exactly, this would be a dealbreaker for me, no discretion =no relationship
Bezos was separated from his wife and they referred to it as a trial separation. They may just have been taking their time to formally file for divorce. I’m not sure he was actually cheating on her, depends on the exact timeline. It doesn’t sound as though he was trying to hide the new relationship, although I doubt he wanted it spread all over the National Enquirer.
Foolish old man.
He should be worried she would be willingly to cheat with him, red flag. She should be worried about the same, red flag. If a person is willing to cheat it opens a suitcase of red flags of other issues in character. Fools putting on blindfolds because of infatuation and lust. I hope the second wife takes the rest of his money.
Pure trash. They really deserve each other.
No discretion =no relationship
If I was his wife, I’d give a short, biting statement of my own to the press. Because I’d want to call a spade a spade, but in few words of utter contempt.
She is displaying maturity and class by staying silent. Let the two morons splash their mess across the news.
Yes she’s cross eyed. I have the same condition with the opposite eye. It’s more pronounced when I’m tired. I had two surgeries as a child as it was much worse and affected both eyes. One is fine now. Doesn’t bother me.
The woman is a tart. She set her sights on him, shoved her fake face and boobs at him and he fell for it. (That’s if you believe other gossip sites). The man’s an idiot. It’s probably not the first time he’s cheated. He just got caught this time. He’ll play out the PR game then dump her. No wedding for trampy Laura.
His wife will stay silent until she gets her share of the money. She may have the sense to keep quiet if only for her children’s sake.
@sacha sorry to hear you have to live in toxicity too. I have the benefit of being shunned by my dad’s wife, so as the rainbow sheep of the family, I don’t have to weather the family dinners.
This gives me 2 thoughts: 1. Is bet my kids college savings account that in 5 years Bravo launches real housewives of Seattle and she ends up being the “big star get”. And 2 this whole mess reminds me of the mess with Fmr governor Sanford. Where he got caught with a mistress and went on the we are soul mates world tour.
Is he still with that woman?
No she left him a couple years later and his wife took her money and ran. Karma definitely came for him unless you count the 1 term in congress he managed to get elected for but sill couldn’t manage to hang on to that.
If she’s going to be launched anywhere, it will be Amazon Prime.
Zing!
She’s in love with his billions. He’s in love with her plastic surgery. Both ditched partners of over 10 years and the kids will resent them both. Sounds like a perfect love story to me.
I don’t know why I find this all so strange.
she had so much botox she looks like an angry racoon. this affair is going to fizzle, in about 6 months, she wants those Billions….
MacKenzie knows Jeff better than anyone. I assume he’s fooled around over the years with other Top Gun gals, since his Blue Origin is his pet project. I hope Jeff stops making any statements about it. It just gives the story oxygen, which is what Trump wants.
+1
His poor wife. I mean, Lauren Sanchez. That plastic face and bolted on boobs. I don’t get it. And the quote about her “helicoptering to Coachella with a group of friends.” At 49. Come on. Can she try any harder to be something she’s clearly not, which is apparently “Forever 21.”
At any rate, I feel so sorry for all those kids. This PR push (“We’re stronger than ever!” Right – what, two months in? Now that’s some relationship fortitude) just seems super inappropriate, given the fact that nine other human beings will be forced to deal with the fallout from this mess from now on.
The sad part? It doesn’t take a therapist, a divorce lawyer or a genie to predict that this thing is gonna flame out at some point. Hard. By then, hopefully, the currently Missus will be quietly moving on with some major ca$h.
wow, all I see is Botox and Silicone.
Same. It is horrendous!
Not to be gross but im betting shes more
” sexually adventurous” than his loving wife and he likes the thrill of living out a porno lol
I think so too, he wanted to bang a porn star.
@ANON
I chuckled at “Forever 21”. You read my mind!
The more I hear about this story the more “team Mackenzie” I get.
These two twits deserve each other. This Lauren woman looks like Real Housewives trash: plastic and tacky.
Get your money, Mackenzie, raise your kids and enjoy your freedom.
Seriously, he’s going to marry a 49-year-old party girl? I thought he was smarter than that. This won’t last.
I’m most angry at Trump in all this.
He’s trying to destroy an “enemy” by having the enquirer come after him. The bezos’ divorce is a shrug to me, but that the president of the u.s.(I retch when I write that) is using his influence to smear a private citizen, that blows my mind. He wouldn’t dare try such tactics with putin, a true enemy of the American people (but a personal friend/boss to Trump). Bizarre and disgusting.
my god, he is indeed THAT stupid !!
seriously, I don’t believe this narrative, with all the dirty material in her hands, he had to play nice with her – at least for a while
They both were born and raised in Albuquerque – Bezos moved away while in school but has family there, his mother’s family has a lot of ties to that city. They’re both close in age and I bet that was a big point in common for both of them, knowing the same childhood places, same people and other things.
Makes some sense given that they seem to be polar opposites in terms of personality, temperment etc. Common roots + cheating hot sex = true luvvvv (for now!)
Ooof…that picture! …with her unwitting husband all smiles. Brutal.
Even with $137 billion, I still wouldn’t.
Am I the only one that is not picking a side here? I know nothing about either party and there seems to be a whole lot of judgment and speculation purely based on looks.
I guess the lazy and easy narrative must be that Mackenzie Bezos must be a woman scorned but I don’t believe that. I also don’t believe for one second that a woman who was Amazon employee number one and who has been married to Jeff Bezos for 25 years will suddenly become an anti Amazon crusader.
I also find it ridiculous to assume that Jeff Bezos hasn’t encountered women like Lauren Sanchez over and over again and that suddenly randomly in 2018 he fell victim to some awful social climbing temptress who is forced him into divorcing his wife. I’m sure there have been far younger and far better looking woman (not that Sanchez is hideous) who have thrown themselves at the man; he probably just likes the woman.
At least she’s not 19 or smoking hot dumb. ok, maybe she’s dumb idk.
but why her? sometimes I’m surprised by choices these guys (billionaires) make!
I am sorry, but with his resources he could find someone with more brain that someone who comes up with shit like “they are stronger than ever”. Please. They are having an affair not an actual marriage. Stronger that when? When they were just having an affair in secret?
All I see is Jack Nicholson/ the joker when I look at Sanchez’s face. Yikes.
Yes, her lips – worse than Nicole Kidman on her worst day! So obviously fake.