What we know so far about Jeff Bezos’ $50 million star-studded luxury Venice wedding

The rich and famous have descended on Venice, Italy this weekend to celebrate the wedding of billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and former broadcast journalist Lauren Sanchez in a show of all things money.

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The star-studded event boasts a guestlist of some 200 celebrities and business elite, including President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Leonardo DiCaprio, Usher and a spattering of the Kardashians — to name a but few.

$50 million

And while the exact details of the three-day affair have been kept confidential amid city-wide protests, it is expected to rack up a bill of around $50 million.

$230 billion

Bezos, one of the world’s richest people with an estimated net worth of $230 billion, according to Forbes, is also reportedly set to make a number of charity donations, including 2 million euros for Corila, an academic consortium that studies Venice’s lagoon ecosystem.

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