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Celebrities Who Called Out Jeff Bezos Lauren Sanchez's Wedding
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. More from SheKnows One of Jeff Bezos & Lauren Sánchez's Pals Just Shattered a Major Misconception About Their Wedding Best of SheKnows Everything We Know About Carolyn Bessette's Life Before JFK JR 29 Times Gisele Bündchen's Red Carpet Fashion Proved She's the Ultimate Supermodel 68 Celebrities Who Share a Famous Ex 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,'' Solve the daily Crossword
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Times the Celebrity Death Rule of Threes Actually Happened
Much like the internet rule 34 (please don't ever look that up), online communities insist that bad things happen in threes, especially when it comes to celebrity deaths. You may think, 'There's no way this is an actual thing that happens. It's all coincidental!' Yes, it may be, but after doing a bit of research, we're pretty convinced. For all you skeptics out there, we have concrete proof — or rather, some pretty good examples — of the celebrity death rule of threes phenomenon. It's believed to have started when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper died in a plane crash together all the way back in 1959. Then, in 2018, Parts Unknown star Anthony Bourdain, fashion designer Kate Spade and The Goldbergs star Jackson Odell all died within mere days of one another; re-sparking the conversation about the death in threes even years later. Much like you will be once you click ahead to the examples we found, we were shocked to find how many times tragic celebrity deaths have happened in threes. A version of this article was originally published in June 2014. More from SheKnows These Kids Lost Their Celebrity Parents at a Young Age Best of SheKnows The Best Photos of Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne's Kids Growing Up Over the Years Everything We Know About Carolyn Bessette's Life Before JFK JR 29 Times Gisele Bündchen's Red Carpet Fashion Proved She's the Ultimate Supermodel Kelly Preston, Naya Rivera, Regis Philbin (July 2020) July 2020 was rife with tragedy, especially in Hollywood. On the 8th, everyone was so worried when it came out that Glee star Naya Rivera went missing during a boating trip with her son in Lake Piru, and then, in the following day, she was declared dead. Then, four days later, on the 12th, actress Kelly Preston died from breast cancer. Then, 12 days later, Regis Philbin died from heart disease. Kate Spade, Anthony Bourdain, Jackson Odell (June 2018) Early June 2018 was a rough one. To start, on June 5, designer Kate Spade died at 55 by suicide. She was found in her New York City apartment and left a suicide on June 8, it was announced Anthony Bourdain died at 61, also by suicide. He was found unresponsive by his friend in a French hotel.A few days later, on June 10, The Goldbergs actor Jackson Odell died at the age of 20. TMZ reported he was found 'unresponsive in a sober living home' and that there were 'no signs of foul play.' Prince, Chyna, Doris Roberts (April 2016) A few months after David Bowie's death rocked us, 2016 started to seem like the worst year for celebrity deaths yet. On April 17, 2016, we were saddened to hear that Doris Roberts, the lovably annoying mom on Everybody Loves Raymond, died in her sleep at age 90. Just a few days later on April 20, ex-WWE wrestler Chyna died at age 46 of an accidental drug overdose after taking sleeping pills. And one day later on April 21, fans everywhere were heartbroken to learn that Prince had met a similar fate — the music legend's shocking death at age 57 was ruled an accidental overdose. Tony Gwynn, Casey Kasem, Ruby Dee (June 2015) On June 11, 2015, Ruby Dee — beloved actress, writer and civil rights activist — died at her home in New York from natural causes. The legend, whose credits include A Raisin in the Sun and American Gangster, was 91. On June 15, radio icon Casey Kasem died in a Washington state hospital at the age of 82 from complications of Lewy body dementia. The inimitable host of the American Top 40 Countdown had been the center of a heated medical tug-of-war between his wife, Jean Kasem, and his children for several months preceding his death. The third celebrity death in less than a week, 'Mr. Padre' Tony Gwynn died unexpectedly when his heart stopped. The beloved baseball star was only 54 years old. Burt Young, Richard Roundtree, Matthew Perry (October 2023) Oscar-nominated actor and Rocky star Burt Young passed away on Oct 8, 2023 at 83. Then, on Oct 24, Richard Roundtree passed away from pancreatic cancer at 81. While many were still reeling, beloved Friends actor Matthew Perry suddenly passed away at the young age of 54 due to acute effects of ketamine on Oct 28, 2023. Elmore Leonard, Lee Thompson Young, Lisa Robin Kelly (August 2013) Lisa Robin Kelly, best known for her role as Laurie on That '70s Show, died in her sleep at t he age of 43 while in a rehabilitation facility on Aug. 14, 2013. A coroner later ruled that her death was a drug overdose. A few days later on Aug. 19, 29-year-old actor Lee Thompson Young was found dead in his Los Angeles, California, apartment after failing to show up for work on the Rizzoli & Isles set. The former star of Disney's The Famous Jett Jackson had committed suicide. On Aug. 20, Elmore Leonard — the great American novelist and screenwriter whom we have to thank for classics like Get Shorty, 3:10 to Yumaand even the current FX series Justified — died in his Detroit, Michigan, home at age 87 from stroke complications. Peaches Geldof, Mickey Rooney, John Pinette (April 2014) A stand-up comedian and actor widely known for his role in the Seinfeld series finale, John Pinette died on April 5, 2014. Pinette's personal doctor signed off on the 50-year-old's cause of death as pulmonary embolism. The following day, legend of the silver screen (and notorious ladies' man) Mickey Rooney died in his sleep from natural causes at the age of 93. On April 7, news of 25-year-old English journalist and television personality Peaches Geldof dismayed family, friends and fans, who found her death sudden and inexplicable. Sadly, a subsequent inquest into her death revealed that heroin likely played a large part in it. Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon (June 2009) Morbidly dubbed the 'Summer of Death,' the summer of 2009 saw the death of many notable figures in American pop culture. The rule of threes certainly seemed to be at play in June of that year, when game show host and announcer Ed McMahon died peacefully on June 23 at the age of 86. Two days later, Charlie's Angel stunner Farrah Fawcett succumbed to her battle with anal cancer at the age of 62. As the world still reeled from her death, news broke that the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, had died unexpectedly at the age of 50 years old. His doctor was later implicated in contributing to Jackson's death. Jane Birkin, Tony Bennett, Sinead O'Connor (July 2023) Legendary old Hollywood actress and singer Jane Birkin suddenly passed away at the age of 76 on July 16, 2023. Five days later, legendary pop and jazz singer Tony Bennett passed away on July 21, after a seven-year battle with Alzheimer's disease. Five days after that, 'Nothing Compares 2 U' singer Sinead O'Connor died of natural causes. Annette Funicello, Margaret Thatcher, Lilly Pulitzer (April 2013) Lilly Pulitzer, the fashion designer whose plucky Palm Beach-esque prints and bright colors perked up many a woman's life, died on April 7, 2013, at the age of 81. The following day, the world mourned the loss of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Nicknamed the Iron Lady, Thatcher remains an inspiration for political legacy. Later the same day, Annette Funicello died at a California hospital from complications due to multiple sclerosis. The 70-year-old was best known as one of the child stars of the original Mickey Mouse Club. David Bowie, Alan Rickman, René Angélil (January 2016) What a start to 2016: In early January, family of legendary rock star David Bowie announced that he had lost an 18-month battle with cancer. Bowie's death was a huge shock to fans; Ziggy Stardust had stayed out of the limelight in recent years and kept his cancer battle a secret. Not even a week later, Harry Potter fans were devastated to learn that Alan Rickman, famous for his role as Professor Severus Snape, had died, also from cancer. Later the same day, reps for singer Céline Dion announced that her husband, René Angélil, had died from his own battle with cancer. Alan Thicke, George Michael, Carrie Fisher (December 2016) 2016: the year that took so many of our beloved celebs. Around the holidays, Alan Thicke, George Michael and Carrie Fisher all died unexpectedly. Growing Pains star Thicke collapsed while playing hockey with his son Dec. 13. He died at a hospital several hours later. Michael, one of the '80s greatest pop stars and the front man of Wham!, died in his sleep of heart failure. He was discovered by his longtime partner on Christmas Day. On Dec. 23, Star Wars actress Fisher was rushed to the hospital after going into cardiac arrest during a flight from London to LA. Family members said she was stable before her unexpected death was announced on Dec. 27. Rik Mayall, Don Zimmer, Ann B. Davis (June 2014) The first 10 days of June 2014 was rough. In the first day, Brady Bunch star Ann B. Davis died after a subdural hematoma from a fall in her bathroom. Baseball legend Don Zimmer died from heart and kidney problems on June 4, 2014 at the age of 83. Then, five days later, comedian Rik Mayall tragically died from a sudden heart attack on June 9, 2014 at the age of 56. Olivia Newton-John, Charlbi Dean, Anne Heche (August 2022) Beloved actress and songstress Olivia Newton-John died from breast cancer on Aug 8, 2022, sending Hollywood into mourning. Only three days later, headlines were covered with how Anne Heche tragically died at only 53 after a deadly three-vehicle collision. Then, in a truly tragic turn of events, Triangle of Sadness star Charlbi Dean died at the age of 32 from bacterial sepsis on Aug 29 Sidney Poitier, Bob Saget, André Leon Talley Sidney Poitier passed away at the age of 94 on January 6, 2022, then only three days later, Bob Saget died from a fall. Fashion journalist André Leon Talley then passed away on Jan 18 from complications of a heart attack.
