Jeff Bezos' Fiancée Lauren Sanchez Subtly Reacts to Haters After Inauguration Criticism
Lauren Sánchez isn't acrophobic to crook heads.
She could besides attraction little astir raising eyebrows, the Good Day LA alum choosing to deterioration a lacy low-cut apical that could've been a bra nether her Alexander McQueen suit overgarment to President Donald Trump's inauguration connected Jan. 20.
And, due to the fact that the 55-year-old is engaged to billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who heartily congratulated Trump connected his predetermination triumph successful November, Sánchez had a plum spot for the swearing-in. Which meant that each eyes were connected her ensemble, which whitethorn person been successful keeping with her idiosyncratic benignant but was deemed excessively risqué for the juncture by her astir vocal critics.
She donned a little polarizing look for that evening's Starlight Ball, a flowing apricot gown by Dolce & Gabbana, and went astir her business. Yet her various "likes" connected Instagram comments praising her Inauguration Day look whitethorn arsenic good person been mediate fingers.
Because Sánchez isn't 1 to beryllium fazed by haters, the TV big turned chopper aviator and children's publication writer having already run the tabloid gauntlet with Bezos, 61, erstwhile they archetypal joined forces arsenic a couple.
Here is much to cognize astir Sánchez:
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Who is Jeff Bezos' fiancée Lauren Sánchez?
Before being linked to Bezos, Sánchez was champion known arsenic a quality anchor and amusement newsman successful Los Angeles, having worked for section stations KCOP and KTTV, arsenic good arsenic served arsenic a co-host of the greeting amusement Good Day LA and arsenic a analogous for Extra.
The Albuquerque, N.M., autochthonal was besides the archetypal big of Fox's So You Think You Can Dance when it premiered successful 2005, only doing 1 play earlier the occupation was turned implicit to Cat Deeley, who remains down the mic to this day.
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Off-camera, Sánchez—whose dada worked arsenic a formation teacher and airplane mechanic—is a longtime flying enthusiast. She started with planes, and erstwhile she earned her chopper licence successful 2016, she founded Black Ops Aviation, a accumulation institution specializing successful aerial filming.
Among the feathers successful her cap: Serving arsenic a advisor connected Christopher Nolan's World War II epic Dunkirk.
"I had my job, I had a career, and past I recovered a calling," Sánchez told The Hollywood Reporter in 2017. "I loved amusement and I loved filming, and truthful I got to harvester each of it."
Was Lauren Sánchez joined erstwhile she met Jeff Bezos?
Sánchez joined endowment cause Patrick Whitesell successful 2005 and they stock lad Evan Whitesell, 18, and girl Eleanor "Ella" Whitesell, 15. She's besides ma to lad Nikko Gonzalez, 23, from a erstwhile narration with erstwhile NFL subordinate Tony Gonzalez.
Bezos, Sánchez and Whitesell, who's presently enforcement president of Endeavor Group Holdings, were each photographed unneurotic astatine a enactment successful 2016 for the Oscar-winning movie Manchester by the Sea, which counted Whitesell lawsuit Matt Damon arsenic a shaper and was distributed by Amazon Studios.
So Sánchez and Bezos were successful each other's societal orbit for awhile earlier they emerged arsenic a mates successful January 2019—on the aforesaid time Bezos shared that he and woman MacKenzie Scott were divorcing aft 25 years. It soon followed that Sánchez and Whitesell had separated the erstwhile fall.
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When the National Enquirer subsequently published alleged lusty substance messages betwixt Sánchez and Bezos, purportedly to shed airy connected however overmuch their narration overlapped with his marriage, a lawyer for Bezos pushed backmost against the alleged scoop, saying it was "widely known" that helium and Scott were "long separated."
And Bezos and Sánchez person been together ever since, their enduring concern having agelong overshadowed their supposedly scandalous root story.
Whitesell has besides since remarried, tying the knot with Australian exemplary Pia Miller successful 2021, portion Bezos' ex Scott—now a billionaire philanthropist successful her ain right—has married and divorced subject teacher Dan Jewett.
When did Jeff Bezos get engaged to Lauren Sánchez?
Sources confirmed the couple's engagement to E! News successful May 2023.
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The pinkish cushion-cut diamond ringing Bezos gave Sánchez that's estimated to beryllium betwixt 25 and 30 carats filled successful the blanks.
And they look to beryllium enjoying that betrothed life, traveling the satellite and making glamorous appearances astatine VIP events specified arsenic the yearly Vanity Fair Oscar enactment and the 2024 Met Gala.
But successful a uncommon X station astir his idiosyncratic life, Bezos unopen down a study that a $600 cardinal wedding was successful the works successful Aspen, Colo., past month, posting Dec. 22, "Furthermore, this full happening is wholly false—none of this is happening. The aged adage 'don’t judge everything you read' is adjacent much existent contiguous than it ever has been."
How did Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos blend their families?
Bezos shares 4 children with his ex-wife and they support an highly debased profile, their eldest—son Preston, calved successful 2000—being the lone 1 whose sanction is public.
But they each person gotten to cognize their dad's fiancée and her kids.
"On a emblematic Saturday, we bent out, we person meal with the kids, which is ever amusive due to the fact that you ne'er cognize wherever the speech is going to spell with this galore kids," Sánchez told WSJ. Magazine in a January 2023 interview. "We are the Brady Bunch!"
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She got a clang people successful co-parenting erstwhile she and Gonzalez divided up, she explained, and it became her exemplary for what a blended household could look like.
"Tony and his wife [October "Tobie" Gonzalez] are my champion friends," Sánchez said. "Tony and Tobie were astatine Thanksgiving with america [in 2022]. I'm truthful arrogant of it. My lad looks astatine me, and he's like, ‘I'm the luckiest lad successful the satellite due to the fact that I tin person Thanksgiving with some my parents and they don't person to beryllium married.'"
Noting that she had much acquisition with this dynamic than Bezos, Sánchez added, "I'm not saying that being champion friends with your ex is the end-all be-all. But you bash request to beryllium capable to communicate."
What does Jeff Bezos' fiancée Lauren Sánchez bash for enactment now?
In summation to inactive moving Black Ops Aviation and championing Bezos' efforts down the controls—"I’ve besides learned however to alert the helicopter,” the Blue Origin laminitis told CNN successful 2022, "and she’s a horrible backseat pilot. She’s terrible!"—Sánchez released a children's book, The Fly Who Flew to Space, past year. And she's been pursuing philanthropic endeavors with Bezos, whose estimated nett worthy arsenic of Jan. 21, per Forbes, is $243.8 billion.
"We're truly large teammates, and we besides person a batch of amusive together,” Sánchez told CNN. "And we emotion each other… We ever look astatine each different and we're the team."
Added Bezos, "It’s easy. We bring each different energy, we respect each other. So, it’s amusive to enactment together."
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And, arsenic the spouse of specified a consequential high-profile figure, Sánchez has reined successful what she mightiness person publically shared successful different beingness (hence her subtle effect to her manner critics).
"It's hard. I'm a precise unfastened person," she told WSJ. Magazine. "I speech a lot. I similar to archer each my secrets. I person had to larn that I can't bash that. It's a bully lesson."
So she nary longer shares her determination oregon different posts "things that I usually would person before" connected Instagram, she added. "I person to beryllium much private, a small much controlled, and that's fine."
But the satellite knew wherever she was connected Jan. 20. See Sánchez, Bezos and everyone other who made it to Trump's inauguration: