Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and former Journalist Lauren Sánchez will marry in Venice, Italy, at an event that promises to gather about 200 illustrious guests. The marriage has generated controversy among local residents, who fear impacts on the city and protest against the event.
The city of Venice, one of Italy’s leading tourist destinations, is about to become the meeting point for some of the world’s largest billionaires and multimillionaires. The reason? The one who is already considered the marriage of the year: the union between the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, and former Journalist Lauren Sánchez. But this event is generating controversy and wave of contestation among residents of the region.
The marriage, which will last for several days, is scheduled for next week and, according to the Italian newspaper will have about 200 guests and will have a cost of no less than several million dollars. Personalities of policy, Hollywood Stars and prominent figures of the worlds of businessdo entertainment and from moda.
Among the possible guests, who will have received an invitation, are names like Donald Trump e Ivanka Trump, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Kris Jenner, Kim Kardashian, Orlando Bloom, Katy Perry, Gayle King e Oprah Winfreythat, last April, together with Lauren Sánchez, integrated In over six decades, aboard a Blue Origin rocket.
According to the BBC, which cites the Italian press, the guests should stay in some of the more luxurious hotels in Veniceas well as us superiates de Jeff Bezos – o Bark and the Abuna.
“No room for bezos!”
While Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez are preparing to climb to the altar in Venice, there are many signs that residents – and not only – are against the ceremony in that Italian region, alerting to the consequences of an event of this dimension.
At this time, the city seems to be divided: there are those who expect with expectation for the EVENT OF THE YEARwhile others fear that the region becomes a “amusement park” for billionaires and multimillionaires, while filling with paparazzi e curious tourists.
The city was filled with posters against the marriage of the Amazon tycoon and Blue Origin. A track with the sentence “No room for bezos!”which names an anti-Jeff Bezos campaign, was hung on the Di Rialto bridge, one of the most emblematic in Venice.
“Bezos arrogantly believes that it can take over the city and turn it into its own space for private parties,” said Tommaso Cacciari, of the campaign “without space for bezos”, quoted by
On the other hand, the mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaromentions the tax benefits that the event will bring to the region, which are evaluated in Millions of euros.
Venice fears tourist overload
In addition to protests against the impact of marriage on the city, they also emerged environmental and cultural concerns. The residents of Venice fear that the city is subjected to more tourist pressuressomething that has been a problem in recent decades.
It is recalled that, since April, due to the high demand from tourists. The measure was introduced to try to control the flow of visitors and preserve the historic city, which suffers from the impacts of mass tourism.
The fee, which can be paid onlinehas the value of five eurosbut if the payment is made with Less than three days in advancethe price increases to the good.
