Everything is ready (or almost) for what he promises to be the wedding of the year: Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez will pronounce the fateful “yes” at the end of June in Venice, in a well -made and sparkling event. But if the billionaire entrepreneur has been a well -known name for years, his future wife, 55 years old, is still surrounded by an aura of curiosity.
Former journalist, TV presenter and helicopter pilotLauren has built a career and a fame, but it is with the relationship with the founder of Amazon that he really catalyzed the international spotlight. However, that between Lauren and Jeff is not the classic cover story: their love arises from a breakthat between her and her husband Patrick Whitesell, and by one media who made Hollywood and Wall Street tremble. Before Bezos, however, Sánchez crossed a series of very public relationships, followed by engagements, quarrels, betrayals and reconciliations.
Here is its sentimental history, without filters.
From television internships to the first love: the story with Rory Markas
Lauren Sánchez met his first famous boyfriend during the years of collegewhen he did an internship at the Fox 11 Plus station in Los Angeles. He was Rory Markas, a well -known sports commentatorfamous for commenting on the last action of the 2002 World Series won by the Angels.
At the time, Lauren had been working for two years as a receptionist at the television center. The relationship was serious: the two officially engaged, but in the end it was she who left him, after changing work. Markas, who survived a severe blood clot to the brain in 2008, died in 2010 at 54 years of age from an apparent heart attack in his home in Palmdale. He never married and had no children.
Four years with Anthony Miller … and a compromising diary
The next relationship was with Anthony Miller, former Wide Receiver of the NFL. They are together for four years, with a one and a half year old engagement. But when, in 2019, the Bezos-Sánchez caseit is Miller who speaks openly: in an exclusive interview with Dailymail.comsays that It was Lauren who left him and betray him repeatedly.
“I couldn’t trust her,” He says, “he translated me with other guys. I discovered it by reading his diaryand I found even more things after we broke up. ” Miller also describes Lauren as “Tirchia”: “He wanted me to pay everything, even if he worked well, he was on Extra And Fox Sports Newsbut she didn’t like paying. “
Sources close to Lauren contest the version of the former, accusing him of having been unfaithful and calling him a “opportunist” for having spoken after more than twenty years – coincidentally, immediately after the revelation of the bond with Bezos.
Derek Fisher, the intermittent parenthesis with the former NBA star
After breaking with Anthony, Lauren begins one “Tira and Spring” relationship with Derek Fisher, Former Los Angeles Lakers player. To confirm it, a source reported by Pagesixaccording to which the relationship between the two began immediately after the end of the story with Miller, in 2002
Tony Gonzalez: a son, a difficult separation and … a found friendship
Always in 2002, Lauren met Tony Gonzalez, another prominent name of American football. Nikko Gonzalez was born from the report, today 23 years old. After the farewell – stormy – the two exchanged heavy accusations of treason. But over time, any tension has been overcome.
Lauren has repeatedly called Tony “one of my best friends”and with his new wife, Octaber, has a relationship so tight that she invited her to her bachelorette party in Paris. The three (Tony, Octaber and Lauren) have been photographed several times together with the respective partners on Bezos’ yacht, showing that sometimes, from the ashes of a story, a true friendship can be born.
Henry Simmons: engagement and red carpet before farewell
Shortly after the end of the relationship with Gonzalez, Lauren binds toactor Henry Simmons, known for the role of detective Baldwin Jones in NYPD Blue. The two get engaged and coexist, participate together with worldly events and are immortalized several times on the red carpet.
The story lasts about a year, between 2002 and 2003. The last public appearance dates back to April 2003during a Lakers match. According to sources close to the couple, he was Lauren who broke, shortly after meeting his future husband Patrick Whitesell. Simmons then married the actress Sophina Brown in 2010.
Patrick Whitesell: the wedding, two children and the Bezos scandal
In 2005, Lauren married Patrick Whitesell, a powerful Hollywood agent and co -founder of the WME talent agency. From marriage Two children are born: Evan (2006) and Eleanor (2008). The wedding lasts more than a decade, until in January 2019 National Enquirer Publish an investigation that changes everything.
The tabloid claims to have followed Lauren and Jeff Bezos for months: “In five states and for 40,000 miles”, they write, telling private jets, spicy messages, erotic selfies and secret encounters. The investigation also reveals alleged emails between Lauren and Jeff, and accuses them of having had a clandestine relationship while they were still married.
Bezos responds publicly, with a long post in which he accuses L’Enquirer And the CEO David Pecker of attempted extortion. “Rather than giving in to blackmail, I decided to publish what they sent me,” writes the magnate. “They told us that they had other messages and photos that they would published if we had not interrupted the investigations.”
The engagement with Jeff Bezos and the new life to be star
After the scandal and the respective divorces (Bezos leaves Mackenzie Scott, his wife for 25 years and mother of his 4 children), Lauren and Jeff become inseparable. Four years later, the marriage proposal arrives: A pear -shaped diamond with an estimated value of at least 2 million dollars.
Since then, the couple has lived between jet, yacht and red carpet, in a continuous honeymoon. Lauren has found a new place among the stars: she is a friend of Kim Kardashianattends luxury events and often attracts attention to its bold style and for aesthetic retouches (never confirmed but often discussed). He was able to transform a complex sentimental life into one unprecedented social climb.
And now, with Venice ready to do the background to his third (and perhaps last) “I want him”, it seems that Lauren Sánchez has found his happy ending.
