Charlize Theron leads stars slamming billionaire Jeff Bezos' 'gross' wedding
Charlize Theron and Rosie O'Donnell were some of the huge stars criticising Jeff Bezos' recent lavish wedding to Lauren Sanchez
Charlize Theron was one of the many big names that took issue with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' lavish wedding to Lauren Sanchez in Venice last week. The billionaire and his new wife took three days out of their busy schedule to celebrate their wedding, which is believed to have cost close to £40million.
While the couple celebrated their wedding, 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.
The likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Oprah Winfrey and the Kardashians were at the celebrations. Not only did people on social media criticise the wedding, so did Hollywood celebrities like Charlize, Rosie O'Donnell and more.
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 thanks people for coming to her charity event, "especially when the world feels like it's burning because it is.'
"Here in Los Angeles, in the US and across the globe, we're moving backwards fast,' Charlize continued. "Immigration policy has destroyed the lives of families, not criminals; women's rights are becoming less and less every day; queer and trans lives are increasingly being erased; and gender-based violence is on the rise.
"This isn't just policy, it's personal.' She ended her speech with three words aimed at Jeff: "Yeah, f**k them.'
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.'
Tony nominee also praised MacKenzie as she noted the amount of money Jeff's ex-wife gave to charity. "How awesome is MacKenzie Scott! (Jeff Bezos's first wife & mother of his 4 children).
"As of mid-December 2024, she had given a total of $19.3 billion to over 1600 charitable organizations."
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