Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has a $500 million megayacht, a $75 million support vessel with its own helipad and a pilot wife who loves flying helicopters. But when the couple’s new Miami estate is ready, Lauren Sánchez may have to leave the chopper behind. Jeff Bezos appears to have met one problem that even his fortune cannot simply buy away.
Bezos famously owns the $500 million sailing yacht Koru, a 416-foot Oceanco vessel whose towering three masts leave no room for a conventional helipad. The solution was suitably extravagant: a roughly $75 million support vessel called Abeona, complete with a helipad and helicopter hangar, allowing his wife, Lauren Sánchez, to fly in and out while the couple cruises the world.