How happy I am to have married Jeff Bezos

Lauren Sánchez Bezos is a happy woman, says Amy Chozick in The New York Times. Most mornings, she and her husband Jeff Bezos wake up in their $230m compound on the Miami private island known as “Billionaire Bunker” and immediately list 10 things they’re grateful for, without repeating anything from the day before. Then it’s sunrise with a coffee – her mug reads “Woke Up Sexy as Hell Again”, his says “HUNK” in letters from the periodic table – followed by pickleball or a personal training session. Sánchez Bezos says she has always been “basically happy”, even before she married the world’s third-richest man, and she’s perfectly content showing it off. They married in a wildly lavish three-day bacchanal in Venice; in January, she was “dripping in vintage Dior” at Paris fashion week. As former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter puts it, “they are to quiet luxury what Las Vegas is to the Mormon Church”.

There’s a perception that Sánchez Bezos only started “rolling with the A-list” after marrying the Amazon founder. “But it’s actually the other way around.” Born to middle-class Mexican-Americans, she has always exhibited a “buzzing restlessness” which saw her become a Los Angeles “networker” and enjoy a career in broadcast journalism, interviewing the likes of Cher and Bill Clinton. Now 56, she says she has known Leonardo DiCaprio since she was 25 – “twenty-five”, she repeats for emphasis – and has long counted Kris Jenner and Katy Perry as friends. Unlike other mega rich American tycoons, who generally leave over-the-top parties and flashy cars to celebrities, Jeff has followed his new wife’s lead, and now seems “intent on sampling the full menu”. After years defined by “moral earnestness”, their marriage arguably marks the “moment American money stopped apologising and decided it might as well enjoy itself”.

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