Lauren Sanchez's Net Worth Revealed—Here's How Much She Could Gain From Jeff Bezos After His Ex-Wife's $38 Billion Payday
The Amazon billionaire and former journalist fell in love in 2018 and became engaged in 2023. 'We love to be together and we love to work together. We fly together. We work out together. We're together all the time,' Sánchez told the Wall Street Journal about their private romance. The two have been spotted together on red carpets like the Met Gala and the Vanity Fair Oscars Party.
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Lauren Sánchez's net worth is reportedly $30 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. She receives most of her income through her career as a news anchor and entrepreneur.
Sánchez also serves as the vice chair of the Bezos Earth Fund, where she and her husband invested in their $10 billion commitment to help Africa's restoration movement. 'We really want to do the most we can with the dollars that we put into things,' Sánchez told Vogue. 'It's not about just giving the money away. It's about being involved.'
She says that her philanthropy is 'very important' to her. 'I think Jeff and I really are focusing on the long-term commitment to climate, and we're extremely optimistic about it,' she elaborated. 'Ten billion is just the beginning.'
Jeff Bezos' net worth is reportedly $232.7 billion. As the founder, former CEO, and current executive chairman of Amazon. His wealth has expanded thanks to owning The Washington Post and Blue Origin.
In an interview with CNN, Bezos revealed that he's going to give away a lot of his wealth during his lifetime. 'The hard part is figuring out how to do it in a levered way,' he told the news site. 'It's not easy. Building Amazon was not easy. It took a lot of hard work, a bunch of very smart teammates, hard-working teammates, and I'm finding — and I think Lauren is finding the same thing — that charity, philanthropy, is very similar.'
'There are a bunch of ways that I think you could do ineffective things, too,' he added. 'So you have to think about it carefully and you have to have brilliant people on the team.'
Law experts told Page Six that the two had signed a pre-nuptial agreement before their big day in Venice. 'They can get married anywhere as their prenup would generally be drafted to include its enforceability everywhere,' another source told the site.
The couple lives in Florida, which means they would have to get a divorce in the state, if they choose to do so. 'Divorce can only happen in the state of the primary residence,' the insider said. 'So if they live in Florida, no matter where they marry or what the prenup says, they would have to divorce in Florida.'
Bezos did not have a pre-nup with his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott and she received $38 billion in Amazon stock following their 2019 divorce, making her a 4 percent stakeholder in the company.
Many experts have found that Jeff Bezos would have the upper hand in the agreement. 'Lauren might have an interest in keeping her property separate, but it is really Bezos who would benefit from a prenup,' Melcher said. '[Bezos] is also going to want to consider what he's done to terminate his first marriage, because there may be obligations in that that would affect the prenup.'
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