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Celebrities Who Called Out Jeff Bezos Lauren Sanchez's Wedding

Celebrities Who Called Out Jeff Bezos Lauren Sanchez's Wedding

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Right now, you can't escape Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez, who have been all over the news for their highly controversial wedding in Venice. As many know, the pair confirmed their relationship in Jan 2019 after weeks of speculation, got engaged in May 2023 while on Bezos' $500 million yacht named Koru, and then they married in a $50 million Venice event in late June 2025. And everyone has thoughts about it, including some A-listers who are calling out the lavish ceremony.
Their wedding is one of the biggest we've seen from celebrities, and one of the most controversial. One of the biggest reasons for controversy is how extremely exorbitant it all is, especially during such a turbulent time for so many Americans. Sanchez's multiple dresses reportedly cost upward of a million dollars, with the hotels being around $900,000, and over a million dollars in catering. That's not including security, transportation, and entertainment.
Then, there's also the fact that they rented out so much of Venice, despite the persistent pushback and protests from locals.
While many A-listers did go to the wedding, just as many have been calling out the event, including A-listers like Charlize Theron and Olivia Munn; and it's got Hollywood talking.
Below, see which celebrities called out or took jabs at Bezos and Sanchez's wedding.
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Mia Farrow
Mia Farrow decided to take a jab by uplifting Bezos' ex-wife Mackenzie Scott, posting to Instagram: 'How awesome is MacKenzie Scott! ( jeff Bezos 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.'
Charlize Theron
At the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project 2025 Block Party, Charlize Theron poked fun at Bezos and Sanchez saying to the attendees, 'I think we might be the only people who did not get an invite to the Bezos wedding. But that's OK because they suck and we're cool.'
Olivia Munn
On the day after Bezos and Sánchez tied the knot, Olivia Munn subtly threw shade at them by reacting to Mia Farrow's Instagram post praising the Amazon founder's ex-wife, Mackenzie Scott. 'How awesome is MacKenzie Scott! ( jeff Bezos first wife & mother of his 4 children),' her post said. 'As of mid-December 2024, she had given a total of $19.3 billion to over 1600 charitable organizations.'
Munn reacted by saying, 'Truly incredible,' and this comes after her explosive rant about the Blue Origin space trip, per CNN.
Katie Couric
Katie Couric commented on Sanchez's wedding dress, saying, via New York Post: 'Welcome to the eighties — when big hair and conspicuous consumption ruled. Apparently, tacky is back.'
Rosie O'Donnell
'The BEZOS wedding. It turned my stomach seeing all these billionaires gathering in the gross excess of it all, the show of it. Is Oprah friends with Jeff [Bezos]. Really – how is that possible,' Rosie O'Donnell wrote on Instagram. 'And his fake fem bot wife. Who looks like that? Why would he choose her? After the salt of the earth MacKenzie. Sold his soul is what it looks like from here. The devil is smiling at all his conquests.'
Jenna Bush Hager
Jenna Bush Hager called out the fact that there were literal protests about the wedding. 'Everybody's talking about it,' she said to co-host Maria Shriver via EOnline. 'It's very public. There's protests in Venice, which I personally would hate.'
Megyn Kelly
'I don't know what she's doing, because unlike him, she was more beautiful before. She was actually very pretty when she was just normal, and now she's my age, I don't know what she's done,' Megyn Kelly said via Meaww. 'I can't imagine living my life like that for the pleasure of somebody, and I guess the inherent deal is, you get all the money, and it's just worth it? No.'
She then called the wedding a 'real middle-finger-with-the-money-splayed-out, Marie Antoinette moment.'
Meghan McCain
Meghan McCain also took a jab, calling the wedding a 'waste of money' on her Citizen McCain podcast. She blasted the 'egregious … display of gratuitous wealth' event, adding there is 'a lot of anger about [billionaires] not paying their fair share of taxes [and] not giving back the way they should.'
She added, '[Bezos said], 'Screw it, Im gonna have the most ridiculous, gaudy, over-the-top, celebrity-filled wedding in a city that I have no relationship to … and we're gonna screw up this city for a period of time and then show the entire world how much money we have and how much money you don't,''
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