From the difficult decisions surrounding Jeff’s separation from his wife to the alleged information
regarding the United States President, this is the truth about Jeff Bezos’ relationship
to Lauren Sanchez:
11.
Wife
Jeff Bezos is an American entrepreneur and investor and is perhaps most well-known as
being the founder, president, and CEO of Amazon… just about everyone’s favorite online shopping
website.
He is currently worth about one hundred forty billion dollars, making him the richest man
in the world.
His wife, MacKenzie Bezos is a novelist and wrote the books The Testing of Luther Albright
and Traps in 2005 and 2013 respectively.
She earned her degree at Princeton University in 1992.
These two first met when Jeff interviewed her for a job at DE Shaw, a hedge fund in
New York City.
Their relationship started pretty much immediately after they met, which might seem a little
strange considering she was a research associate, and he was the senior vice president.
After they casually dated for a short time, they became exclusive.
They quickly became engaged and married in 1993, which was merely six months after their
first outing.
MacKenzie later told Vogue why she fell head over heels for Bezos, stating, “My office
was next door to his, and all day long I listened to that fabulous laugh.
How could you not fall in love with that laugh?”
Jeff told the magazine, “I think my wife is resourceful, smart, brainy, and hot.”
10.
Kids
Jeff and MacKenzie’s whirlwind romance and marriage resulted in them having children
together.
They have four kids total.
Since Jeff was adopted when he was young, he and MacKenzie decided to adopt their daughter
from China.
They also have three biological sons.
He gives all of his kids the same advice when it comes to success, telling them to have
pride in the choices they make and to work hard for what they want.
He told an interviewer at an event for FIRST in 2018, “When you have a gift and then
you work hard, you’re really going to leverage that gift.
That’s going to make it easier for you to make that choice to work hard…
You’ll get to work with like-minded people and you’re going to energize the room.
If you’re doing something you love, the day is going to be so fun…
You’ve gotta figure out what you love.
And it’s going to bring you great joy.”
9.
MacKenzie
Although many people don’t know much about Jeff’s wife of twenty-five years, she played
a large part in his success throughout their relationship.
After they tied the knot, they lived together in a rental home in East Seattle.
Although her title was “research assistant” and “accountant,” she was more involved
in Amazon than most articles let on.
According to the New York Times, MacKenzie “helped brainstorm names for the company
and even shipped early orders through UPS,” and her opinion was significant to Jeff during
the early years.
After they moved to a permanent home, she was able to focus on her writing and leave
her husband’s business.
Jeff was very supportive and involved with his wife’s passion as well, and she called
him her “most devoted reader” because he would clear his entire schedule to read
drafts of her novels.
8.
Lauren Sanchez
By now, you’ve probably heard about Lauren Sanchez, as her relationship with Jeff Bezos
has been making headlines everywhere.
But, in case you don’t know who she is, we’re gonna give you a little history about
Bezos’ alleged mistress.
She is a famous American news anchor that started her career working as an assistant
for KCOP-TV in Los Angeles, California.
Since then, Lauren has worked on Extra, Fox News, and Fox Sports Net as a hostess.
She even got a couple of Emmy nominations throughout her career so far.
Sanchez has also appeared in some television series and movies, including We Bought a Zoo
and Fantastic Four.
In addition to her other jobs, she was a frequent guest host on the talk show The View.
Plus, Lauren is a licensed pilot of helicopters and airplanes and is the founder of Black
Ops Aviation.
She married Patrick Whitesell in 2005, and she has a total of three kids.
7.
Jeff & Lauren
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez met through her husband, Patrick Whitesell, making their
entire relationship especially strange.
Things weren’t immediately romantic between these two, however.
They ran into each other on various occasions because they share similar friends and were
often seen at parties together.
Bezos even hired Lauren at one point to assist with aerial photos for a project he was working
on since she got her license in 2016.
In recent months, these two have been seen spending personal time together on several
occasions.
A source reportedly told People, “Lauren and Jeff have been spending a lot of time
together over the last year and especially the last few months.
At first, it was socially at parties… here and there.
But their time together has definitely seemed to evolve, raising some eyebrows.
Jeff has met a small group of Lauren’s girlfriends too.”
6.
National Enquirer
This notorious magazine released photographs in January 2019 that showed Jeff and Lauren
together, which they claim “destroyed his marriage.”
They investigated the new couple for four months, following them while they indulged
in numerous romantic outings.
They posted an eighteen-picture gallery online with pointed and crude captions, including
“The secret hookups between sleazy Jeff Bezos and lover Lauren Sanchez were most often
conducted at her Santa Monica home...” and “It seems the thrill of cheating at 40,000
feet was impossible to resist for the loved-up adulterers.”
However, other reports state that Lauren and Jeff’s spouses already knew about their
ongoing romance.
A Town & Country article reads, “Bezos’s wife of 25 years, MacKenzie Bezos, and Whitesell
were aware of the relationship for a while and ‘dealt’ with it sometime in the fall
of 2018, a source told People.”
Plus, Jeff’s lawyer allegedly said that he and his wife had been separated for a long
time, a fact that was apparently “widely known.”
National Enquirer disagreed with this statement, and another article posted to their website
assured readers that they could disprove it via texts he supposedly sent to the news anchor.
Some of the texts include “I love you, alive girl.
I will show you with my body, and my lips and my eyes, very soon.” and “I am so
crazy about you.
I hope I get to see you at the premiere even if at a distance…
You fit me.”
5.
Divorce
On January 9, 2019, when all of the photographs leaked on National Enquirer, Bezos announced
via social media that he and MacKenzie were getting divorced.
He wrote, “We want to make people aware of a development in our lives.
As our family and close friends know, after a long period of loving exploration and trial
separation, we have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends.
We feel incredibly lucky to have found each other and deeply grateful for every one of
the years we have been married to each other.
If we had known we would separate after 25 years, we would do it all again… we also
see wonderful futures ahead, as parents, friends, partners in ventures and projects, and as
individuals pursuing ventures and adventures.
Though the labels might be different, we remain a family, and we remain cherished friends.”
Sanchez and Patrick allegedly hired an attorney to handle their divorce and want to settle
things nicely and privately without having to go to court.
4.
Financial Aspects
Since Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world, and his wife has been with him from
the beginning of his career, there are a lot of financial decisions that will go into their
divorce.
But, if things go the way most separations go, MacKenzie could end up as the richest
woman in the world with half of the fortune - about seventy billion dollars.
Although some might think she shouldn’t get a huge cut of his money, others strongly
disagree.
MacKenzie has been by her husband’s side since before Amazon took off and played a
large role in the company’s success.
In her review of the book The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, she wrote,
“I worked for Jeff at DE Shaw, I was there when he wrote the business plan, and I worked
with him and many others… in the converted garage, the basement warehouse closet, the
barbecue-scented offices, the Christmas-rush distribution centers, and the door-desk filled
conference rooms in the early years of Amazon’s history.”
Some might even argue that without MacKenzie, Amazon wouldn’t be what it is nowadays.
However, these two haven’t released information about their decisions regarding finances to
the public and rightfully so.
But, whether or not you agree with a fifty-fifty split, there’s no denying that both Jeff
and MacKenzie were significant to his accumulated wealth.
3.
Bezos & Trump
An additional interesting detail surrounding Jeff and MacKenzie’s divorce and National
Enquirer’s scandalous articles is that the situation might somehow involve United States
President Donald Trump.
Bezos and Trump have a history, and it hasn’t been friendly.
The latter has been openly critical of the multi-billionaire for a long time.
He doesn’t support Amazon’s use of the United States Postal Service and has claimed
that the company is putting smaller retailers out of business.
He wrote in 2017, “Amazon is doing great damage to tax paying retailers.
Towns, cities, and states throughout the U.S. are being hurt - many jobs being lost!”
Trump’s dislike of Bezos goes further since he owns The Washington Post, which frequently
sheds a negative light on the president.
Back in May 2016, Trump even appeared on Fox News to call Bezos out, stating, “He bought
this paper for practically nothing, and he’s using that as a tool for political power,
against me and against other people, and I’ll tell you what, we can’t let him get away
with it.”
Since Jeff’s affair with Lauren Sanchez was revealed, Trump has taken to Twitter to
further bash the billionaire.
He tweeted, “So sorry to hear the news about Jeff Bozo being taken down by a competitor
whose reporting, I understand, is far more accurate than the reporting in his lobbyist
newspaper, the Amazon Washington Post.
Hopefully the paper will soon be placed in better & more responsible hands!”
2.
Politics
Since Bezos has such an unfavorable history with Donald Trump, the president’s integrity
was brought into question after National Enquirer released the article containing Jeff’s texts
with Lauren Sanchez.
He suggested that the report was politically motivated.
To discover if these proclamations are true, an investigation was initiated by AMI, the
company that owns National Enquirer.
Jeff noted that the magazine originally threatened to publish personal photos of him and Sanchez
if he didn’t halt his research.
He further said that the tabloid wanted him to release a false statement that he and Gavin
de Becker, his security consultant “have no knowledge or basis for suggesting that
AMI’s coverage was politically motivated or influenced by political forces.”
However, Bezos refused to release the falsehood and posted about the Enquirer’s backhanded
methods instead.
Even a reporter named Ronan Farrow said that he and other journalists had received similar
threats after reporting information about the magazine.
1.
Further Information
There have also been suggestions that Lauren’s family was involved in the entire matter.
At the beginning of February 2019, The Washington Post reported that Bezos and his security
consultant believed her brother, Michael, had something to do with releasing their intimate
information.
He is close with AMI’s owner, David Pecker, and other people in Trump’s circle.
The news outlet also noted that Michael said that the employees of AMI were set on performing
“a takedown to make Trump happy.”
Bezos’ actual statement concerning National Enquirer’s suspicious ways read, “Rather
than capitulate to extortion and blackmail, I’ve decided to publish exactly what they
sent me, despite the personal cost and embarrassment they threaten.”
He also wrote that since he owns The Washington Post, “[it’s] unavoidable that certain
powerful people who experience Washington Post news coverage will wrongly conclude I
am their enemy.
President Trump is one of those people, obvious by his many tweets.
Also, The Post’s essential and unrelenting coverage of [the passing] of its columnist
Jamal Khashoggi is undoubtedly unpopular in certain circles.”
It seems that the information surrounding the publication of the Sanchez/ Bezos affair
goes deeper than most people believed.