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Venice’s Bezos-Sanchez wedding attracted some of the world’s wealthiest people

Headline from Local News 8, on the newest of 2 developments

By Auzinea Bacon, CNN (CNN) — A large sum of riches descended upon Venice, Italy, over the last few days for the lavish wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez. Opulence has been on full display as some of the famous attendees arrived at the canal city by private planes, helicopters and yachts befo…

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  1. Bezos Wedding (Photos): Kim Kardashian, Oprah Winfrey And Tom Brady Arrive In Venice

    Headline from Forbes ·

  2. Newest

    Venice’s Bezos-Sanchez wedding attracted some of the world’s wealthiest people

    Headline from Local News 8 ·

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33 articles, oldest first.

  1. CNN

    Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez arrive in Venice for their wedding (opens CNN)

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    CNN's feed description

    Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez arrived in Venice, Italy for their wedding. CNN’s Melissa Bell reports that the details of the upcoming Venetian wedding have been kept under wraps due to the looming threat of disruptive protests.

  2. CNN

    Bezos and Sanchez arrive in Venice before wedding (opens CNN)

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    CNN's feed description

    Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez arrived in Venice, Italy before their wedding. The couple was spotted entering the Aman Venice hotel.

  3. CNN

    In pictures: Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos’ Venetian wedding (opens CNN)

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    CNN's feed description

    As former journalist Lauren Sanchez prepares to celebrate her marriage to billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, details around the multiday event have remained top secret, largely in an effort to dodge disruptive protests.

  4. Breitbart News

    Report: Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sánchez, VIP Guests Forced to 'Run Away' from Venice Wedding Venue amid Rise in Protests (opens Breitbart News)

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    Breitbart News's feed description

    Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his fiancé, Lauren Sánchez, are reportedly moving one of their wedding venues due to security concerns.

  5. Al Jazeera

    Jeff Bezos arrives in Venice for wedding amid protests over inequality (opens Al Jazeera)

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    Al Jazeera's feed description

    Amazon tycoon set to marry Lauren Sanchez in lavish Venice wedding as activists protest ‘growing disparity’.

  6. Local News 8

    Who is Lauren Sánchez, Jeff Bezos’ bride-to-be? (opens Local News 8)

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    Local News 8's feed description

    By Olivia Kemp, CNN (CNN) — She’s set to marry Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos. But who is the pilot and Emmy Award-winning journalist Lauren Sánchez – and how did she go from local news to the edge of space? Born in New Mexico in 1969 and raised in California, Sánchez studied at El Camino College

  7. Forbes

    Bezos Wedding Guests (Photos): Kim Kardashian, Oprah Winfrey And Tom Brady Arrive In Venice (opens Forbes)

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    Forbes's feed description

    Wedding guests have already touched down in Venice, including several members of the Kardashian family and Ivanka Trump.

  8. Forbes

    Jeff Bezos And Lauren Sanchez's Wedding Events Begin: What We Know About Venice Extravaganza (opens Forbes)

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    Forbes's feed description

    The wedding, hosted in Venice, Italy, is expected to cost millions of dollars as residents protest the upcoming luxury event.

  9. Local News 8

    Bezos-Sanchez Venice wedding: Kim Kardashian among celebrities to arrive as celebrations get underway (opens Local News 8)

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    Local News 8's feed description

    By Jacqui Palumbo, Barbie Latza Nadeau and Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN Venice, Italy (CNN) — With Lauren Sanchez and husband-to-be Jeff Bezos firmly planted in Venice, and VIP guests arriving thick and fast, celebrations surrounding the couple’s highly anticipated wedding can commence.

  10. Fortune

    Photos: Celebrities cruise into Venice for Jeff Bezos’ 'wedding of the century' amid ongoing protests (opens Fortune)

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    Three days of nuptials for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and former journalist Lauren Sanchez kicked off on Thursday.

  11. Local News 8

    Venice expects to rake in over $1.1 billion from Bezos-Sanchez wedding (opens Local News 8)

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    By Auzinea Bacon, CNN (CNN) — Venice, Italy, can expect to reap a $1.1 billion reward from Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s controversial, star-studded wedding, according to Italy’s Tourism Ministry. The ministry said Friday that the event, which has been met with fierce pushback from some Venetians,…

  12. Forbes

    Jeff Bezos And Lauren Sánchez Arrive At Wedding Venue (Photos) (opens Forbes)

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    Forbes's feed description

    Bezos and Sánchez departed their hotel for San Giorgio Island on a luxury wooden boat.

  13. CBS News

    Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez's wedding draws celebrity crowd to Venice. See the photos. (opens CBS News)

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    CBS News's feed description

    While the ceremony itself is set for Saturday at an undisclosed location, movie stars, TV personalities and business titans were seen arriving at the Madonna dell'Orto church on Thursday.

  14. Forbes

    Bezos Wedding (Photos): Kim Kardashian, Oprah Winfrey And Tom Brady Arrive In Venice (opens Forbes)

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    Forbes's feed description

    Wedding guests have already touched down in Venice, including several members of the Kardashian family and Ivanka Trump.

  15. Forbes

    Jeff Bezos And Lauren Sanchez Marry Today: What We Know About Venice Extravaganza (opens Forbes)

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    Forbes's feed description

    The wedding, hosted in Venice, Italy, is expected to cost millions of dollars as residents protest the upcoming luxury event.

  16. The World from PRX

    Venice is the setting for Jeff Bezos' wedding celebrations (opens The World from PRX)

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    The World from PRX's feed description

    This week, Venice is the site of the Bezos nuptials — as Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and one of the world’s richest men, marries Lauren Sánchez, a journalist, entrepreneur and astronaut. Venetians, themselves, however, don’t seem to be entirely onboard with the party, as reporter Angelo van Schaik wi…

  17. Local News 8

    What happened on Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s big wedding day (opens Local News 8)

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    By Leah Dolan, Jacqui Palumbo and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN Venice, Italy (CNN) — It’s been both the most public and secretive wedding of the year. On Friday, the main event of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s three-day-long Venetian extravaganza culminated in a private ceremony held on the secluded, h…

  18. KEYT Santa Barbara

    Venice expects to rake in over $1.1 billion from Bezos-Sanchez wedding | News Channel 3-12 (opens KEYT Santa Barbara)

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    By Auzinea Bacon, CNN (CNN) — Venice, Italy, can expect to reap a $1.1 billion reward from Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s controversial,

  19. Local News 8

    Katy Perry is ‘missed’ at the Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez wedding (opens Local News 8)

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    Local News 8's feed description

    By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — There has been a great deal of interest in the Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez wedding, but one celebrity is apparently not attending. The world now knows that singer Katy Perry is not in Venice for the Amazon founder and his longtime lady love’s wedding.

  20. Forbes

    Bezos Wedding (Photos): Lauren Sánchez Spotted In Venice Before Ceremony (opens Forbes)

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    Forbes's feed description

    Wedding guests have already touched down in Venice, including several members of the Kardashian family and Ivanka Trump.

  21. Local News 8

    Venice’s Bezos-Sanchez wedding attracted some of the world’s wealthiest people (opens Local News 8)

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    Local News 8's feed description

    By Auzinea Bacon, CNN (CNN) — A large sum of riches descended upon Venice, Italy, over the last few days for the lavish wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez. Opulence has been on full display as some of the famous attendees arrived at the canal city by private planes, helicopters and yachts befo…

  22. NPR

    'Kisses yes, Bezos No,' protesters say, as Bezos wedding stirs controversy in Venice (opens NPR)

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    NPR's feed description

    Protesters denounced the three-day celebrations for the wedding between Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sanchez Bezos as a symbol of rising inequality and disregard for the city's residents.

  23. Forbes

    Jeff Bezos And Lauren Sanchez Wedding: What We Know About Venice Extravaganza (opens Forbes)

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    Forbes's feed description

    The wedding, hosted in Venice, Italy, reportedly cost millions of dollars as residents protest the upcoming luxury event.

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