Amazon tycoon set to marry Lauren Sanchez in lavish Venice wedding as activists protest ‘growing disparity’.
Save articles to read later and create your own reading list.
Multibillionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez have arrived in Venice ahead of their star-studded weekend wedding, an event that has galvanised an eclectic assortment of activist groups protesting it.
Bezos waved from a water taxi as he and Sanchez arrived on Wednesday at the dock of the Aman Hotel, a five-star hotel on the Grand Canal, with two security boats in tow.
The lavish event has drawn protests by groups who view it as a sign of the growing disparity between the haves and have-nots, while residents complain it exemplifies the way their needs are disregarded in the era of mass tourism to the historic and iconic lagoon city.
