The Truth About Jeff Bezos’ Girlfriend, Lauren Sánchez
Lauren Sánchez has been a TV personality for over two decades. But in 2019 she began to experience a level of media scrutiny more intense than she’d ever dealt with before. When your new boyfriend is the recently-divorced richest man in the world, though, perhaps this is to be expected.
Starting An Empire
When Jeff Bezos quit his steady finance job in 1994 to open an e-commerce bookstore from his garage, he couldn’t have predicted the unprecedented success he would experience. The Amazon website launched on July 16, 1995. Within two months Bezos and his small team were selling $20,000 of books throughout the United States.
Richest Man In History
Amazon would become the world’s biggest internet sales company. In 2018 it was valued at an astonishing $1 trillion, with Bezos’ personal net worth of $150 billion enough to make him the wealthiest man in modern history. Indeed, Amazon is now such a behemoth that Bezos’ net worth managed to grow by $24 billion during the COVID pandemic.
Expanding Business
Bezos’ insane wealth has allowed him to diversify into other business interests, too. He bought The Washington Post newspaper in 2013 for $250 million, for instance, and he founded the Blue Origin aerospace company in 2000. Its goal is to enable commercial human spaceflight. In other words: space tourism.
Personal Bomb
But on January 9, 2019 the usually private Bezos dropped a bombshell on Twitter. He posted a short statement about his marriage to wife MacKenzie. It read, “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.” Wow!
