These are the celebs who are attending Jeff Bezos' Venice wedding
Jeff Bezos (left) and Lauren Sanchez leave a hotel for their pre-wedding reception, in Venice, Italy, Thursday, June 26, 2025. Photo: AP
Oprah Winfrey arrived in Venice on Thursday, leading a star-studded guest list of celebrities descending on the lagoon city for the weekendwedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez.
Winfrey's private jet landed at Venice's Marco Polo airport. Former American footballer Tom Brady arrived soon thereafter.
The bride and groom pulled into the Aman Hotel dock on the Grand Canal on Wednesday, traveling via water taxi with security boats in tow. A few hours later they slipped out of the hotel, with Sánchez wearing a sleek black and white striped, one-shoulder gown.
Kim Kardashian. Photo: AFP
The details of the nuptials have been a tightly kept secret, though the locations now appear to have firmed up as has the guest list.
Ivanka Trump, her husband Jared Kushner and their three children arrived Wednesday.
Other celebrities on the guest list, according to two people close to the wedding who spoke on condition of anonymity, because they weren't authorised to speak publicly, include:
- Kim Kardashian
- Mick Jagger
- Leonardo DiCaprio
- Orlando Bloom
- Microsoft founder Bill Gates
- Diane von Furstenberg and her husband Barry Diller
- Katy Perry had originally been expected but the latest update had her as not attending.
Orlando Bloom. Photo: AP
The wedding has divided Venice, with some activists protesting it as an exploitation of the city by the billionaire Bezos while ordinary residents suffer from overtourism, high housing costs and the constant threat of climate-induced flooding.
One group called Extinction Rebellion staged a small protest in St. Mark's Square on Thursday featuring a masked bride and groom and people holding posters decrying climate change and income inequalities.
"The planet is burning but don't worry, here's the list of the 27 dresses of Lauren Sanchez,' read one, a reference to the bride's reported wedding weekend wardrobe.
Protesters said that their plans to disrupt the arrivals of guests at one of the wedding venues forced organisers to move the event to the more secure Arsenale area beyond Venice's congested centre.
Oprah Winfrey. Photo: Reuters
The city administration has strongly defended the nuptials as keeping with Venice's tradition as an open city that has welcomed popes, emperors and ordinary visitors alike for centuries.
"We will always respect the right to speak out, but we reject every form of intolerance and prejudice,' Mayor Luigi Brugnaro said in Thursday's edition of Italian newspaper Il Foglio Quotidiano. "No one in Venice can claim the right of deciding who can enter, who can love, who can celebrate.' – AP
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