On August 16, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (hereinafter referred to as Bezos) and girlfriend Lauren Sánchez (hereinafter referred to as Sanchez) attended the premiere of The Lord of the Rings: Ring of Thrones produced by Amazon!
The film, a prequel to the Lord of the Rings series and billed as the most expensive series in television history, will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on September 2. As the boss, Bezos of course came to the platform to support the scene, and Sanchez spared no effort to help promote the publicity on social media.
On the same day, there were many reporters at the scene, in order to capture the photos of their own lenses, the photographers repeatedly surprised, and even shouted directly, "Mrs. Bezos", Sanchez, who heard this sentence, the corner of his mouth appeared a smile with a distinct curve.
I don't know if she will remember that many years ago, she was still standing under the stage, huddled in the crowds, patiently waiting for interviews with celebrities.
▲ Sanchez has been a news anchor and sports entertainment reporter for many years, which is a screenshot of her natural cameo movie "Fantastic Four".
The encounters of life are always beyond imagination.
Speaking of which, Sanchez and Bezos should have been in contact since the spring and summer of 2018, when both were still married, and the real exposure of the news was that In January 2019, Bezos officially announced his divorce, and all parties broke the news and stirred up the city.
In the past few years, as their former partners have a new home, and they continue to unabashedly go out and go in pairs, the public's perception has gradually changed from disgust, disgust, and difficulty at the beginning, and they want to spy on the mysterious end of attraction between them.
Today, let's take a closer look at one or two.
Before talking about this relationship, it is inevitable to mention the 25-year marriage of Bezos and ex-wife MacKenzie Scott (hereinafter referred to as MacKenzie), which we talked about in detail when our ex-wife remarried last March
Let's just say a few words here.
Mackenzie, who had a dream of being a writer in early 1992, had just graduated from Princeton University and became a management assistant at the hedge fund company DE Shaw to support herself, and bezos, an alumnus who had graduated six years earlier, was her immediate supervisor. Day and night, separated by a wall, she was deeply attracted by his hearty laughter, so she took the initiative to launch an offensive, invited him to lunch, and then naturally began to fall in love.
In September 1993, the two registered for marriage. She's 23 and he's 29 and hasn't signed a prenuptial agreement.
▲ Marriage certificate of the current year.
In 1994, Bezos resigned to start a business, and MacKenzie accompanied her husband from New York to Seattle, and the husband and wife accompanied her, she was both an accountant at Amazon in the early days, in charge of finance, responsible for talent recruitment, and had to help pack and mail.
At that time, the office was located in the garage where they rented a house in Seattle.
In 1997, Amazon successfully went public. After another three years, MacKenzie, who was pregnant with his first child, gradually withdrew from the daily business of the company, returned home to become a virtuous wife of her husband and godson, and returned to literary creation by the way, fulfilling her dream of being a writer.
▲ They have three sons and a young daughter adopted from China, which is a rare family portrait.
With the infinite expansion of the company's business and the rapid rise in personal wealth figures, they also have to face all the challenges of entering a new class together. Yes, don't think that getting rich and crossing classes is all good, but in fact, it is also facing a comprehensive upgrade and test from the way of thinking to the way of life and the world view.
▲ Including more and more frequent business activities, public occasions need to travel together, and each other's style of dress is also trying to change to adapt to the harsh Vanity Fair.
In May 2017, Bezos and Mackenzie, who had been married for 24 years, were photographed on the streets of Rome, looking very affectionate.
Unexpectedly, in January 2019, not long after his personal wealth jumped to the top of the world's rich list, Bezos suddenly announced that he was going to divorce. Later, everyone learned that it was for another married woman, Sanchez.
▲ The original text of the divorce statement reads, "After a long period of exploration and attempts to separate in love, it was finally decided to divorce and continue as a friend." In passing, I expressed my regrets about the past and my vision for the future.
Just when the world was watching, shocked, and waiting to see the joke and decide that the divorce war must be protracted, MacKenzie happily accepted the divorce conditions, giving up his stake in The Washington Post and Blue Origin (a private commercial space company founded by Bezos) (worth $4 billion), and retaining only 25% of the Amazon shares they jointly owned (that is, about 4% of the total, about $38 billion). He also left the voting rights to his ex-husband to ensure that his control of the company did not waver, and the stock price and the interests of investors were not too affected.
▲ In April of that year, she announced the news on her newly established Twitter account. Now, more than two years later, Mackenzie's tweets have only a few, and they are all about wealth donations.
With his pre-divorce fortune of $144 billion and rising stock prices, Bezos was the world's richest man at the time, even after the money was divided. However, compared with the expected wealth of the outside world, compared with the inseparable, this divorce is very calm, unlike some rich people who do not intend to give a penny, Bezos is generous, and MacKenzie's ex-wife who gave and let go is more definitely open-minded.
Compared with the ex-wife of another richest man, yes, it is Justine, the first wife of Musk, whose wealth is now far ahead of the dust, MacKenzie is much more decisive.
Musk with a backward hairline in his early years and Justine with blonde hair. Many years later, Justine complained that the most common order he had given her was to dye her hair back blonde, and so on.
Justine, who is also a writer, still can't help but mention the rights and wrongs of this marriage and her ex-husband on many occasions after the divorce, and has not given up the husband's surname (we have written in detail). Of course, this is closely related to the fact that Musk did not use the power of his wife when he started his own business, and made various careful calculations of the marital property early at the beginning of marriage.
In the face of her husband's infidelity and public opinion, Mackenzie's one-sided "stand for her" voice, may have been able to get more, but she chose not to say a word, quickly decided, and said goodbye to the past.
Perhaps she deeply feels that too much money is not beneficial, and it may not be a good thing for a person to get money that is not commensurate with her talents, although even if she is at the top of the rich list overnight, it does not affect her attitude towards money as always. In May of that year, the "Giving Pledge", initiated by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, was signed, a pledge to donate half of his life's assets to charity:
And last March, she remarried. Her current husband, Dan Jewett, a former teacher who taught science at the private School Lakeside School, joined her in the Giving Pledge.
▲ His name and the photo of the two snuggling up were added to the page that originally belonged to Mackenzie alone, and the outside world learned that she had started a new life.
More than a year later, MacKenzie continued to donate money to the outside world.
▲ In February, Forbes published a news report showing that she had donated a lump sum of $50 million to the National 4-H Committee, a youth organization focused on agriculture, and the chairman and CEO of the committee afterwards issued a statement saying that it was the largest donation the organization had received in 120 years.
▲ A New York Times report headlined that McKenzie's cumulative donations to date have reached $12 billion.
A lonely courage to go into the rivers and lakes
After talking about the dashing ex-wife, let's take a look at the fiery "little three" Sanchez, who caused an uproar around the world.
Completely different from Mackenzie's middle-class background, attending a prestigious school, and having a smooth life path along the way, the first half of Lauren Sanchez's life can be called an inspirational history of seizing every opportunity to climb upwards.
In fact, her real name is Wendy Lauren Sánchez, but because in the early years of the TV station, her colleagues were also called Wendy, so she took the middle Lauren as her name, which has been used to this day.
▲ The text message note that Bezos flirted with her in marriage is her real name "Wendy".
Sanchez was born on December 19, 1969 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is a third-generation Mexican American. The official languages of the area are English and Spanish, so it's common to see her writing love stories in Spanish on social platforms.
▲ In a photo with Bezos, he writes "mi lugar favorito del mundo es a tu lado", that is, "my favorite place in the world is to stay by your side".
But there is not much information about her detailed family background in the market. After all, it was not red enough before, and few people seriously interviewed; Now, it is too red to speak the same day, change the posture of trying to climb up in the past, eager to use a high wall to cover up their past tightly, of course, they will not take the initiative to take this kind of fine gossip out for people to chew.
One of her rare interviews came from The Hollywood Reporter in November 2017, when she had gone from anchor to starting her own aerial photography company.
In it, she describes her father, Ray, as a flight instructor and mechanic who helped rebuild the plane.
▲ She said, "I grew up in the hangar but didn't know anything about flying. ”
Her mother's name is Eleanor, whose occupation is unknown, and who appears in her group photo.
▲ The group photo was taken at Amazon's headquarters in June 2018 (more than half a year before Bezos officially announced his divorce), and according to anecdotal accounts, the two of them were already on good terms.
The person who posted the photo was the third person in the group photo (first from the right), her brother Michael, the "leaker" who later sold her intimate information with Bezos to the media in exchange for $200,000, and it is reported that the brothers and sisters have completely broken up over this matter.
▲ Say two words about his brother Michael, he is defined as "a small person who desperately makes money on the edge of the entertainment industry", once wanted to be a well-known agent like his brother-in-law (Sanchez's ex-husband), and also tried to open a company, but the most popular star on hand is his sister Sanchez. When he declared his personal bankruptcy in 2010, legal documents showed that his sister Sanchez lent him $165,000, which shows that he has been continuously "transfused" over the years.
Sanchez also has a younger sister who is more than 10 years old as a photographer, Elena.
▲ Compared to her brother, who is out, her sister is now often present at her party with Bezos.
Going back to the Hollywood Reporter article, Sanchez described them as "came from nothing." She said she would often sleep in the back seat of her grandmother's car when she went to clean the house, so she cherished the career she loved now, "Work is part of my DNA."
But! In the mouth of her brother Michael, the family environment is a different version.
Michael once boasted to a friend that he had a good childhood. His grandmother, Elsie, owns a trendy New Mexican restaurant and earns a lot of money because of celebrity patronage and a combined gambling business.
Which of these two statements is true or false? Is someone selling miserable or is someone making a big show? It's hard to judge.
However, judging from Sanchez's early education path, the help of her family to her career is absolutely rare.
▲ When she was young, Sanchez, her fluffy hair, sexy and hot figure, and her Peugeot-curved smile.
After graduating from high school, she went to Southern California to attend el Camino College, a public community college, and chose this two-year school generally for low cost and low threshold, and of course, it can also be used as a stepping stone to enter a prestigious school.
Sanchez is exactly that, she admits that she has dyslexia, but still tries to hide and strive to be strong.
With a successful scholarship application, he went to the University of Southern California to study journalism and began an internship at KCOP-TV (Channel 13) in Los Angeles, but initially as an office assistant.
The year was 1993.
It is not easy for a young man with no background to emerge from the fierce competition. She has changed cities, traveled to many TV stations, worked as a sports anchor, an entertainment journalist, and suffered repeated failures and setbacks on the road to climbing.
For example, in January 1999, Debbie Matenopoulos, the youngest co-host of "The View", did not get the contract extension as desired, and the TV station immediately held a audition with up to 12,000 auditions to pick the best one to replace her. Sanchez also went, but unfortunately lost the last place to Lisa Ling, who was competing in the same game.
▲ The View is a talk show composed of women from "different backgrounds, different generations, and different perspectives", where everyone speaks freely and-for-tat about various events, and then drives the audience in front of the TV to join the heated discussion. The show has been broadcasting since its inception in 1997 and has had an absolute influence. The long-haired Chinese face in the picture is Lisa Ling, who won Sanchez to the host position.
But failure is never a big deal, life is alive, do not try, you will never have a chance to come.
Sanchez once said in a 2018 episode, "I became a journalist because I don't think anyone was like me. ”
It is with such self-confidence and ambition, as well as the momentum of desperately trying to make money, that she strives to perform in front of the TV screen, and strives to be seen and appreciated by more people.
▲ In 1999, Sanchez appeared in the film Fight Club as a cameo as a journalist.
At the end of the same year, she finally returned to KCOP-TV (Channel 13) after a gap of six years, becoming a news anchor at 11 p.m. and the first Latino woman to take the seat.
▲ It was the turn of the millennium, and Tairi had high hopes that she and her partner would be able to beat their competitors in terms of ratings in the future.
▲ Later, the show really successfully won the award! That is, various press releases included the title marked in her self-introduction, "Emmy Award-winning journalist." In fact, the news program she hosted won the Emmy Award in los Angeles, but it was not easy to win NBC4 and KCAL9, which won awards in the previous two years.
At the same time, Bezos, although he was already the owner of a listed company, was still slightly frustrated when he talked to the audience.
▲ He admitted in an interview at the time, "I'm not the kind of woman who, after half an hour of meeting, would say, 'Oh, look how awesome he is.'" I'm a bit silly. ”
It was such a completely different version of them, who could have predicted that there would be such a combination of heaven and thunder and earth and fire in their later lives?
Past love history inventory: four engagements
Compared with Bezos's apparent 25-year-long marriage with his ex-wife, Sanchez's emotional path is much more exciting. However, in the early years, it was not so popular, and naturally no one went to her private life until the love affair with the richest man was exposed, and various revelations followed.
First, a so-called "former friend" revealed to the media that she had been engaged to marriage four times.
The first was as an intern, with Rory Markas, a sports commentator 14 years older than her, and then Sanchez changed jobs and the two broke up.
▲ The eldest brother died of a heart attack in 2010.
The second segment began in 1996 when Sanchez, who was a reporter for KTVK-TV in Phoenix, Arizona, met an age-like American football shooter for the Super Bowl, Lawrence Anthony Miller (Anthony) who played for the Denver Broncos. The two immediately began a relationship that lasted four years (including a 1.5-year engagement).
▲ In 1996, the former Anthony looked like this.
The public originally knew nothing about this love affair, until the love affair between Sanchez and Bezos spread, and her ex was anxious to find the media to break the news, took the initiative to uncover the old love that had been sealed for more than twenty years, and incidentally complained that Sanchez split his legs, slammed the door, and accepted his engagement ring and never returned.
▲ As for the purpose of breaking the news, it is for the purpose of eyeballs, whether it is "righteous and outspoken", or whether it is imposing the impression of her "habitual cheating" on the public.
Because of this matter, the two also quarreled in the air, of course, Sanchez did not come forward, all by the "insiders" to speak out.
▲ For example, in derailment, the "insider" emphasizes that Anthony is the cheater, he has an affair with the stripper, the other party has come to the door, and she (referring to Sanchez) also forgives him.
▲ Another example is the door slamming, Anthony mentions that Sanchez obviously makes a lot of money but does not pull a dime, and the two often ask him to pay the full cost together, which is intended to accuse her of loving money. The "insider" said nonsense, emphasizing that Sanchez became a millionaire on his own in his twenties, and that the former big brother's financial situation was in a mess, and after the breakup, he did not forget to turn back to her for money. Not to mention, whether the "twenty-something millionaire" is a fact or not, or just to get rid of the fact that he does not want money, at least it can prove that Sanchez, who worked hard to save money at that age, is definitely not a love brain, and she has long figured out that she wants to hold the money firmly in her hands.
Finally, the former big brother also broke the news that Sanchez left him because he split his legs with former NBA star and current Los Angeles Sparks head coach Derek Fisher.
▲ Derek Fisher was still playing for the Lakers.
This Derek's private life is very bad, and they are pulled together, which has the meaning of "one loss and one loss". However, the parties did not respond to the truth or falsity of the matter. I think that even if I did date, I should end up in a hurry.
After all, in 2001, Sanchez already had a child with Tony Gonzalez, who is also an American football player.
Unlike his predecessor, Anthony, who had a mediocre career, Tony Gonzalez, who played for the Kansas City Chiefs, is considered one of the greatest near-range forwards of all time.
▲ In 2002, he took a picture with Sanchez.
In 2003, Sanchez held their son, Nikko.
However, even if they have a baby, they have not entered the marriage, and after breaking up, they each have a new partner.
Looking at Tony's social accounts, the relationship with his eldest son Nikko has always been close over the years, which is the standard "co-parenting":
▲ Nikko gets along well with dad and dad's new family.
▲ The same is true of the new family with my mother and my mother.
So it seems no surprise that after Sanchez and Bezos openly socialized, it seems not surprising that the former ex-boyfriend and son's father brought the whole family to their parties frequently.
Including a group of people who were photographed shopping together on the streets of New York last October:
▲ Sanchez and Bezos walk in front of each other holding hands, followed by her predecessor Tony, her and her predecessor's son Nikko, the former's current wife October.
At the same time, the current wife October also posted a photo of the two ins, writing "When you share your child with your friends."
Even this year's New Year's Eve was spent by two families.
▲ The picture above is sent by Bezos, the middle one is his son Nikko, next to his father Tony; The picture below is a family photo posted by Tony's current wife, October, and Sanchez does not forget to like it, which shows how good the relationship is.
Pulling the timeline back to around 2003, Sanchez, who left Tony Gonzalez, was finally no longer an athlete, but turned to the entertainment industry, becoming henry Simmons, a glamorous male star whose masterpiece at the time was "New York Major Crimes Unit".
▲ Two people in 2003.
▲ In recent years, he has added another masterpiece, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., in which he plays Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie.
It is rumored that they were actually engaged:
▲ In a group photo of the Lakers playing a live game in April 2003, the profile describes Sanchez as Henry Simmons' fiancée.
It was also reported that the two had moved together to live in a villa in Manhattan Beach, California, and it wasn't long before they broke up, and Sanchez turned around and got along with her future husband, Patrick Whitesell.
▲ The whistleblower said that the change was too fast at that time, and the circle of friends was in an uproar.
In 2005, Sanchez, 35, married her first husband, Patrick Whitesell, 40.
In the eyes of outsiders, Patrick Whitesell was the standard "Diamond King Old Five", but in fact, his career was still in its infancy at that time.
The more than ten years they have lived together is also the more than ten years that the husband and wife have moved towards the top class together.
Her marriage and the story of the world's richest man in love that followed, we will continue in the next issue.