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Business Insider
2 days ago
- Business
- Business Insider
See the yachts pulling into Venice, where Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez are getting married
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez are getting married in Venice this week. Several superyachts have been spotted in Venice; some could belong to their wedding guests. Bezos and Sánchez were photographed partying on his yacht ahead of the wedding festivities. What's the most glamorous way to arrive at a billionaire's wedding? Private jet? Vintage car? Helicopter? The right answer is obviously on a superyacht. A handful of luxury yachts made their way to Venice ahead of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez's wedding. While it's unclear if the yachts are there specifically for the multiday event, some of the owners have ties to the couple, making it possible they were invited. Take a look at the yachts that are moored in Venice amid Bezos and Sánchez's wedding. Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez's powerful wedding guests have been arriving in Venice ahead of their nuptials. Bezos and Sánchez are celebrating their wedding with around 200 guests, inviting celebrities, billionaires, and even royals to their nuptials. Many of their A-list guests have arrived in Venice via private jet, including Kim Kardashian, Bill Gates, and Oprah Winfrey. Still, several luxury yachts arrived in Venice this week as well, potentially bringing some of the guests to the wedding via the sea, which would be fitting for a friend of Bezos. Bezos and Sánchez are often spotted on his $500 million yacht Koru. Most recently, they were photographed hosting a foam party on the yacht on Sunday off the coast of Croatia. A yacht that belonged to a Russian businessman was spotted in Venice. The superyacht Were Dreams arrived in Venice on Tuesday, according to MarineTraffic. The Were Dreams is 52 meters long and can house 11 guests. It was once owned by Andrey Kostin, the CEO of Russia's VTB bank. It's unclear who now owns the vessel, and unlike some luxury yachts, it isn't available to charter. A yacht called the Limerence arrived in Venice on Wednesday. The 53-meter Limerence's owner hasn't been made public, and the yacht can be chartered, so it isn't clear who used it to travel to Venice during the week of Bezos and Sánchez's wedding. According to Yacht Charter Fleet, the vessel can host six guests and has luxury amenities like a helicopter pad. Bill Miller's superyacht Arience has been in Venice all week. The 60-meter-long Arience moored in Venice on Monday. Miller's investment in Amazon helped him become a billionaire, so it's not surprising that he may have headed to Italy for Bezos' wedding. Though Miller owns the Arience, it can also be chartered by others for a fee. As said on its Yacht Charter Fleet listing, the vessel can host 12 guests and has a gym, a waterfall, and a home theater on board. Shahid Khan's superyacht Kismet floated into Venice on Thursday. Khan, who owns the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars, has owned the $360 million Kismet since 2024. Khan made the yacht available for chartering in September 2024, charging $3 million a week for its use. The 122-meter-long vessel can host up to 12 guests and has luxury amenities like a spa, three pools, and Jet Skis.
Straits Times
4 days ago
- Business
- Straits Times
Bezos' Venice wedding party moved to isolated area on security concerns
A general view shows The Venetian Arsenal ahead of the expected wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, in Venice, Italy, June 24, 2025. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane A general view shows The Venetian Arsenal ahead of the expected wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, in Venice, Italy, June 24, 2025. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane A man uses a smartphone to record the super yacht Kismet ahead of the expected wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, in Venice, Italy, June 24, 2025. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane People use a towel to shelter from the sun while queuing to enter St Mark's Basilica ahead of the expected wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, in Venice, Italy, June 24, 2025. REUTERS/Yara Nardi A fake cash note with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' face on it lies on the street in St. Mark's Square ahead of his expected wedding with Lauren Sanchez, in Venice, Italy, June 24, 2025. REUTERS/Yara Nardi Gondoliers ride their gondolas through the Venice Canal ahead of the expected wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, in Venice, Italy, June 22, 2025. REUTERS/Yara Nardi MILAN - A celebrity wedding party for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and journalist Lauren Sanchez in Venice this week has been moved to an isolated, less accessible part of the lagoon city on security concerns and to prevent the risk of protests, sources said. The billionaire tech-tycoon and his fiancee had earmarked a location in Cannaregio to celebrate after their marriage, a popular and central nightlife area, but fears of demonstrations led to a change of plan, the sources added. For weeks some local residents and pressure groups have been complaining that the event will turn the scenic city of gondolas and palazzi into a private amusement park for the rich, and threatened peaceful blockades. After the wedding ceremony, whose location and exact date remain secret, although it is expected to be between Thursday and Saturday, some 200-250 VIP guests from show business, politics and finance will now head to a hall of the Arsenale, a vast 14th-century complex in the eastern Castello district. Surrounded by water and impossible to reach by land when connecting bridges are raised, the hall is considered a safer venue than Cannaregio's Scuola Grande della Misericordia, a medieval former religious school. Originally a giant shipyard serving the Venetian Republic's maritime empire, the Arsenale has been restored and converted into an exhibition space for the Venice Biennale art fair. Bezos, 61, executive chair of e-commerce giant Amazon and no. 4 on Forbes' billionaires list, got engaged to Sanchez, 55, in 2023, four years after the collapse of his 25-year marriage to Mackenzie Scott. The couple's decision to marry in Venice follows other celebrity weddings in the floating city, such as that of U.S. actor George Clooney and human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin in 2014. "The news that Bezos has run away from the Misericordia is a great victory for us," said Tommaso Cacciari, a leader of the "No Space for Bezos" campaign that is leading the anti-wedding front. The group has announced more protests for Saturday on Venice's canals, bridges and narrow streets, pledging to make the event a "nightmare" for Bezos and his guests. Luca Zaia, president of the Veneto region that comprises the city, criticised the protests, saying the 90 private jets carrying guests to nearby airports would bring revenue of up to 48 million euros ($55.69 million) to local businesses. U.S. President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, who have been holidaying in Tuscany, visited the factory of luxury sports car maker Ferrari on their way to the Venice wedding, a source familiar with their movements said. REUTERS Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
Forbes
20-05-2025
- Automotive
- Forbes
Summer Superyacht Season Starts In Style At The Monaco Grand Prix
The F1 field race out of turn one uphill next to the port during the F1 Grand Prix of Monaco at ... More Circuit de Monaco in Monte-Carlo, Monaco. (Photo by Bryn Lennon - Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images) Every race on the Formula 1 calendar attracts cool, famous, wealthy, and powerful people. But, when it comes combining royalty, intrigue, history, and most of all, superyachts with raw Formula 1 power, few events can compete with the Monaco Grand Prix that takes place this weekend Anyone who's been to the Monaco Grand Prix before knows how hard it is to get a prime spot to watch the races from the deck of a superyacht moored in the harbor. I'm sorry to report I can't invite you to all of the onboard parties (frankly, I don't have too many invites either!), but I can give you a little glimpse of some of the yachts that are there already and will be there for the race. Kismet Kismet will be in Monaco for the Monaco GP this weekend I'm just going to call Shahid Kahn's Kismet the 'Queen' of the fleet. I mean, what more can you say about this 400-foot-long superyacht (which was built by Lürssen, features an exterior design by Nuvolari Lenard and an interior design by Reymond Langton Design and is available for charter with Cecil Wright) that hasn't already been said? Kismet's large beach club area Well, she's fresh off being named Motor Yacht of The Year at the World Superyacht Awards in Venice. She costs well north of $3 million per week to charter. And oh yeah, she has cinema on the lower deck—complete with an underwater seating area—and a 7-star wellness area that's two full stars better than a 5-star wellness area. King Benji King Benji Here are the facts. The 154-foot-long King Benji was built by Dunya Yachts and launched in 2024. The interior was designed by Design Unlimited, and the exterior styling is by Gregory C. Marshall. Now, here's my take after giving the King Benji's hot tub a rigorous test during the Palm Beach International Boat Show earlier this year. King Benji's dual hot tubs I think the hot tubs—plural—on the foredeck might provide great viewing. The massive aft deck may provide one of the best viewing platforms of any of the yachts that are moored stern-to the racecourse, and it might turn into the ultimate dance floor when the parties kick off after the race cars are back in pits. Kamalaya Kamalaya has a large top deck for watching the Monaco Grand Prix While I won't go so far to say Kamalaya's interior is just like Claridge's £60,000/per night penthouse. I will say that Kamalaya's interiors were designed by Remi Tessier who designed Claridge's £60,000/per night penthouse which spans the entire rooftop of the hotel and features 75 works by Damien Hirst. The Zen-like interior of Kamalaya I will also say that when Kamalaya is not trackside at the Monaco Grand Prix, she's can be found cruising anywhere from Svalbard to San Tropez. Lady Trudy Lady Trudy at anchor Some people say the 42.6-meter long Lady Trudy built by CRN is the perfect charter yacht for the Monaco Grand Prix in that size range because exterior deck spaces are comparable to those found on a 50 meter yacht. Now, I can't say for sure just how big the deck spaces are. But I will venture a guess that the outdoor cinema and comfortable outdoor seating might just make for a perfect Monaco Grand Prix viewing experience. Extra Time Extra Time underway The Conrad C144s Extra Time was launched last year and features a Reymond Langton Design exterior, a M2Atelier-designed interior, and naval architecture from Diana Yacht Design. And it will be a killer spot to watch the race simply because, no matter what yacht you are on, no other sporting event connects with the fans quite like the Monaco Grand Prix. Stay tuned as I'll be adding more yachts to this list as I learn about their presence at the Monaco Grand Prix.
New York Times
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Craving More of ‘The White Lotus'? Read These Books Next
Smart, funny and compulsively watchable, HBO's 'The White Lotus' is the rare TV satire that strikes a perfect balance between vicious and empathetic, skewering the superrich while also humanizing their often outlandish foibles. The series, which just wrapped up its third season, follows a formula that's as familiar as it is addictive: A flock of wealthy, ill-mannered tourists descends on a far-flung luxury resort for one week, dreaming of escape — only to find that the very problems they hoped to flee are swiftly and mercilessly closing in on them, with deadly consequences. Part of the pleasure of the show is how it manages to make these doomed holidays seem so appealing. Lives implode, relationships crumble and people wind up dead, but you still want to be there regardless. If you're not quite ready to check out of the White Lotus, we've got 10 novels that channel the spirit of the show, from ruthless depictions of moneyed vacationers to murder mysteries set at high-end resorts. If you want to open on a dead body Kismet Much like the White Lotus in Thailand, Sedona, Ariz., has a reputation for spirituality that attracts all manner of gurus, yogis and so-called wellness aficionados. Their pretensions are witheringly lampooned in this comic thriller about Ronnie, a Pakistani American who tags along to the desert enclave with her friend turned life coach, Marley. It isn't long before the dark side of paradise reveals itself, in the form of a dead body — the first of many that soon turn up in various states of dismemberment. Akhtar has a keen eye for the hypocrisy of the namaste-espousing elite, and no vampire facial, jar of manuka honey or hot yoga session is spared from her mordantly funny wit. The Hunting Party Flitting between the past and present, this mystery novel is more than a mere whodunit: Although the story begins with a murder, Foley conceals the identity of the victim, describing the body in vague terms before rewinding to the start of the week. The cast of this locked-room drama comprises nine 30-something friends from Oxford University who have assembled at a remote hunting lodge in the Scottish Highlands for their annual New Year's Eve party. When a raging blizzard traps the group inside, secrets, lies and betrayals all bubble to the surface, and the question of who will die — and who will do the killing — becomes more and more intriguing. Bad Summer People In Rosenblum's Salcombe, a fictional summer getaway for the rich in the heart of Fire Island, the tennis pros steal, the loving wives lie, and everybody bad mouths, screws over and sleeps with everyone else — sometimes all at the same time. Rosenblum charts the intricate rivalries and obsessions ping-ponging around this cloistered idyll with an anthropologist's rigor, tracing in sharp detail how this complex web of relationships could escalate from affairs to larceny and all the way to murder. If you like the rich behaving badly Long Island Compromise Carl Fletcher, a second-generation immigrant and the owner of a polystyrene factory, is kidnapped one morning, in broad daylight, outside his Long Island home. He's eventually returned in one piece, but the trauma — which he steadfastly refuses to acknowledge — has repercussions that last decades, looming over the lives of his three children as they clumsily transition into adulthood. Like 'The White Lotus,' this novel by Brodesser-Akner, a writer for The New York Times Magazine, is in part about how money doesn't solve your problems, just reconfigures them — and about how even the most dogged efforts to preserve a veneer of normality and stave off a breakdown are doomed to fail. I Eat Men Like Air Alex Sable is the kind of 20-something patrician in the making who is attuned to the subtlest gradations of class — a billionaire's scion who knows in an instant whose blazer is from J. Crew, and who'd rather be caught dead than in something other than Brunello Cucinelli. As the novel opens, Alex is himself caught dead, found in the bathtub of a New Hampshire mansion with his wrists slashed and his Patek Philippe watch broken. Berman flashes back through the lavish bacchanalia of Alex's last months, through the eyes of a podcaster trying to unravel the mystery of his death, to reveal the knotty story behind the apparent suicide. Memento Mori Few writers were as capable of scalpel-sharp dissection of the rich as the Scottish novelist Muriel Spark, whose magisterial social satires remain relevant even half a century later. 'Memento Mori,' one of her most assiduous, tells the story of a group of well-to-do Britons who are thrown into an existential crisis by a series of threatening phone calls, which could be a criminal conspiracy, a prank or the literal embodiment of death. (In typical Spark fashion, it's probably a combination of all three.) The characters are petty, duplicitous, conniving — and also, somehow, strangely sympathetic. It's an acidly funny book that's as smart as they come. If you want a far-flung locale Tangerine It's 1956 in Tangier, Morocco, and Alice Shipley, a housewife struggling to find herself, is sucked into a twisted whirlwind when Lucy Mason, her enigmatic college roommate, unexpectedly shows up at her door. The book's sun-kissed setting and atmosphere of diaphanous unease are reminiscent of Patricia Highsmith, and there's a trace of 'The Golden Notebook' in Mangan's canny rendering of incipient feminism in the aftermath of World War II. But as the novel gains violent momentum, the tension that takes hold is pure 'White Lotus.' Havoc The premise seems charming: Maggie Burkhardt, an 81-year-old widow taking up semi-permanent residence at a palatial hotel in Luxor, Egypt, passes her time during the tail end of the Covid lockdowns by attempting to 'liberate' unhappy couples with a bit of meddling. Her mischief takes a dark turn, however, when she makes an unlikely nemesis: an 8-year-old boy named Otto, whom she engages in a cat-and-mouse game too irresistibly diabolical to spoil. Bollen's storytelling more than matches 'The White Lotus' for I-can't-believe-they-just-went-there nerve, and when it's not outright shocking, it's outrageously, scandalously delightful. Death on the Nile Long before Mike White set his murderers loose among the superrich, Agatha Christie made a career of it — staging one locked-room mystery after another in exotic locales around the globe and rounding out their ensembles with tycoons, socialites and other members of the upper crust. One of her best-known and most beloved novels in this mode, and probably the closest cousin to 'The White Lotus,' is 'Death on the Nile,' which finds the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot sussing out clues among vacationers on a luxury river cruise that turns deadly. If you want to stay with the Thai theme The Resort Scuba divers, influencers and hard-partying tourists converge on the glamorous Koh Sang Resort in this sleek holiday thriller. There's an unspoken rule among Koh Sang's community of expats, known as the Permanents, not to pry into anybody's past. But when dead bodies start turning up on the Thai island, it becomes clear that some of the residents' pasts aren't done with them. Ochs draws out the lush details of the idyllic environment, and even as the body count steadily rises, the island remains strangely appealing.
Yahoo
29-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
NEWS OF THE WEEK: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend adopt rescue dog
Taking to Instagram on Sunday, the TV personality and musician announced that they had recently adopted an adorable dog named Dudley. After sharing the surprise via the account for their pet supplies company Kismet, Chrissy explained that they first noticed Dudley in a video posted on the Wags & Walks page. "In honor of National Puppy Day, meet Dudley - the newest member of our fam!! When we first met Dudley, he was fighting for his life. Thirteen days in the hospital, endless love from his foster family, and an incredible recovery later - he's officially home."
