A three-day wedding in Venice, a potential spread in Vogue, and a jam-packed guest list. In any other case, this might be considered the chicest wedding of the decade. But Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s nuptials this week are already proving pretty controversial.
The tech billionaire, currently the 4th richest man in the world, has ruffled feathers by deciding to wed in the Italian lagoon city, which is sinking at a rate of one to two millimetres a year, exacerbated by rising sea levels. Oxfam has previously estimated that it would take an average person 207 years to emit as much carbon as Jeff Bezos does in 12 months — and that’s only counting the impact of his private jet.
