what do you get when you mix one of the

world’s richest men a helicopter pilot

international espionage and a dickpick

oh just the messiest billionaire love

scandal of the decade jeff Bezos and

Lauren Sanchez just wrapped up the

tackiest wedding of the century in

Venice but you may not remember that

their love story has actually been tacky

from the jump jeff Bezos wrecked two

marriages accused Saudi Arabia of

hacking his phone and somehow still

walked away with a phone party wedding

on a mega yacht buckle up because this

is pettier juicier and way more unhinged

than you remember before we get into it

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already here jeff Bezos met his first

wife Mackenzie Scott back in 1992 when

they were both working at a hedge fund

called Deh Shaw in New York things moved

fast and they got married just 3 months

after they started dating when you know

you’re not then in 1994 they both quit

their jobs packed up and started Amazon

out of a garage in Washington total

startup cliche but it worked behind

every great man is an even better woman

you know Amazon could not have started

without the sacrifices McKenzie made

right at the beginning the pair went on

to have four children together and from

the outside they seemed like an amazing

couple but in January of 2019 Jeff and

McKenzie announced they were divorcing

after 25 years of marriage the message

was straightforward and heartfelt saying

“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

they continued to share that they loved

their life together and would do it all

again but the divorce wouldn’t be as

straightforward as they had hoped

because what wasn’t mentioned in that

tweet was that just 2 days before the

National Enquirer tabloid had reached

out to Jeff to comment on a story it was

ready to run about his new girlfriend

Lauren Sanchez just hours after the

divorce announcement The Inquirer

reported that Jeff has been dating

Lauren the wife of WME talent agent

Patrick Whitell yeah drama

the Inquirer also published text

messages that Bezos had sent to Lauren

as far back as April 2018 i love you

alive girl i will show you with my body

and my lips and my eyes very soon

yaku there are differing reports on when

Jeff and Lauren truly met for the first

time but the general consensus is that

they were first introduced in 2016 by

Lauren’s husband at the time Patrick

Whitell and by the way Patrick is not

just some nobody he was the CEO of

Hollywood talent agency WME and his

client list is crazy it’s like an

Oscars’ afterparty ben Affleck Christian

Bale Matt Damon Michelle Williams Idris

Ela Jake Gyllenhaal Hugh Jackman John

Krosinski Jude Law Ryan Reynolds and

Denzel Washington basically if you’ve

ever like swooned in a movie theater he

probably represents the reason why he

did step down from that company after it

was purchased early this year and now he

runs Win Sports Group an NFL focused

investment platform and he co-leads IMG

he and Lauren got married in 2005 and

had two kids together patrick and Jeff

were pals they were friends bros even so

of course like any normal person he

introduced him to his wife but this very

normal interaction would prove to be a

mistake trusting your friend Jeff who’s

in the middle of a midlife crisis with

your wife is kind of like trusting a

raccoon with your lunch like it it

technically could be fine but it’s very

ill advised surely but slowly suspicion

started to grow something was going on

was Jeff really having an affair with

his friend’s wife in 2016 Jeff hired

Lauren’s helicopter company Black Ops

Aviation to film for Amazon at the time

it didn’t raise too many eyebrows but it

turned out to be the start of something

much bigger according to journalist Brad

Stone the affair didn’t come to light

right away there was some sneaking going

on bezos had always been private about

his marriage to McKenzie but over time

people at Amazon noticed a shift he

became distracted harder to reach and

oddly fixated on helicopters something

he had always disliked that’s when execs

started to connect the dots according to

a book excerpt in the New York Post

Bezos eventually admitted to his senior

team “Just to set the record straight I

did have a relationship with this

woman.” He said McKenzie knew all the

kids were fine and the media was just

blowing it all up but it in his words

very distracting inside Amazon the

reaction wasn’t great according to Stone

many employees were surprised and

disappointed that their famously

disciplined boss had slipped up so yeah

if you’re paying attention Jeff’s friend

Patrick was like “Hey here’s my wife

she’s so nice.” And Jeff was like “Wow.”

He started sleeping with her flying

around in helicopters with her all

whilst wearing his wedding ring such a

cool dude i bet your kids really respect

you bro although Jeff denies it was an

affair from his end claiming he and

Mackenzie were already separated many

people dispute that by the way but for

Lauren well it’s a lot harder for her to

defend herself when she and her husband

weren’t separated at all then came the

headline grabbing 2019 divorce from Jeff

and McKenzie one of the most expensive

divorces to ever happen at first the

split seemed amicable both parties put

out messages about mutual respect and

moving forward but that calm didn’t last

long within hours the National Inquirer

dropped their bombshell and they went

all in they called it their biggest

investigation ever complete with 11

pages of private jet sightings limo

rides and beachfront love nests honestly

it was hard out it was somebody’s

magnumopus it was basically True

Detective of True Detective had been

about like horny billionaires and

absolutely no murders the release of

Otex and the whole tabloid frenzy that

was going on made the whole friendly

divorce narrative a lot harder to sell

and only months later in 2019 Lauren and

her husband confirmed they had divorced

you would think the drama would end

there you would think like you’ve just

been publicly exposed for cheating on

your wife with your friend’s wife how

could it possibly get worse well it did

enter Laurens’s brother Michael Sanchez

so if you were wondering how they got

all those texts and dickpicks and stuff

well apparently it was from Lauren’s

brother michael would later claim he was

defamed by AMI the publisher of the

National Inquirer when they named him as

the source behind the bombshell story

and he took them to court over it

according to Michael’s lawsuit Lauren

had come clean to her then husband

Patrick about that time telling him

about the affair and that the inquirer

had reached out for comment michael who

was acting as Lauren’s unofficial

manager and adviser admitted he gave

some info to the tabloid but claimed he

wasn’t the only one in fact he pointed

the finger right back at Patrick

honestly what a modern love triangle

right you’ve got your ex you got your

brother and the National Inquirer i find

it quite interesting that Jeff and

Lauren claimed there was no affair but

she only told her husband after she had

already been caught by the National

Inquirer like okay girl none of us were

born yesterday in a statement to TMZ

Lauren said “Michael is my older brother

he secretly provided my most personal

information to the National Inquirer a

deep and unforgivable betrayal my family

is hurting over this new baseless and

untrue lawsuit and we truly hope my

brother finds peace.” At the time of all

the tabloid drama kathuffle Jeff seemed

a bit confused at the idea that somebody

might just not like him or think his

affair was freaking weird and yuck and

he blamed the entire debacle on Saudi

Arabia right saudi Arabia didn’t make

you cheat on your wife it was a mess of

family betrayal international intrigue

and horny selfies but in the end things

have worked out for the world’s most

tacky and out of touch couple their ugly

wedding seemed to just go off mostly

without a hitch just some you know pesky

protesters and $50 million no

interference from the Saudi government

though so probably a win for Jeff the

pair have encouraged each other to

pretend to go to space and seem to fake

very well that none of their children

have any issues with them which I just

do not believe no matter what they tell

me let’s not pretend this is some great

love story it was a car crash there was

international fallout family drama

dickpicks and enough PR spin to power

one of Jeff’s sad little rocket ships

but sure congrats to the happy couple

may your next public scandal be slightly

less humiliating if you like this video

check out the full deep dive I did into

Lauren Sanchez in general i looked at

some of her previous relationships and

I’m not saying anything but it does

explain a couple of things bye

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