(27 Jun 2025)
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Venice, Italy – 27 June 2025
1. Various of US billionaire Jeff Bezos leaving Aman Hotel and heading to wedding venue
2. Lauren Sanchez leaving the Aman Hotel, blowing kiss to photographers and heading to wedding venue
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Paolo Santalucia, The Associated Press:
"Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez are having their wedding ceremony just behind me, here on the island of San Giorgio. We can hear the music, we can hear the guests applauding. They arrived a few hours ago riding water taxis through the Venice canals with light security escort, passing by tourists who gathered and photographed them."
4. Influencers Kendall and Kylie Jenner boarding boat
5. Kris Jenner and Corey Gamble boarding, on boat
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Paolo Santalucia, The Associated Press:
"The event has sparked some protests among local residents, especially among those who have been fighting for decades against over-tourism and depopulation of the lagoon city. But the three-day event has so far been proceeding without any snags."
7. Television hosts Oprah Winfrey boarding boat
8. Actor Orlando Bloom and singer Usher boarding boat
9. Microsoft founder Bill Gates boarding boat
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Paolo Santalucia, The Associated Press:
"The wedding of the year has brought to Venice dozens of celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, Kim Kardashian, Ivanka Trump, Tom Brady, Orlando Bloom, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bill Gates and more."
11. Supermodel Vittoria Ceretti boarding boat
12. Believed to be actor Leonardo Di Caprio in black cap boarding boat
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Paolo Santalucia, The Associated Press:
"The festivities will end tomorrow with a reception at the former naval base of the Arsenale, a secure location, while anti-Bezos protesters will be demonstrating in the center of the city."
14. Reality stars Kim and Khloe Kardashian on boat
STORYLINE:
Celebrities including members of the Kardashian family and Oprah Winfrey left their hotel in Venice to attend billionaire Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s wedding at San Giorgio Maggiore island on Friday.
It comes as the wedding got under way on Thursday with the couple sharing a kiss before leading their celebrity guests through the lagoon city to the first bash of the weekend.
A string of water taxis cut through the lagoon to bring Bezos, Sanchez and their guests to the Madonna dell’Orto cloister on the Cannaregio district on the northern edge of Venice.
Paparazzi in their own boats followed close behind in a controlled chase, trying to capture the guests on camera, as police on jet skis patrolled a no-go zone.
Veneto Gov. Luca Zaia has strongly defended the wedding as an economic and reputational boon for Venice, saying the price tag he had seen was between 40 million and 48 million euros ($46.7 million to $56 million).
The wedding has divided Venice, with some activists protesting it as an exploitation of the city by Bezos while ordinary residents suffer from overtourism, high housing costs and the constant threat of climate-induced flooding.
AP Video by Paolo Santalucia and Niccolo Lupone
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