Why Jeff Bezos's girlfriend Lauren Sanchez could be the world's most powerful woman
telegraph.co.ukJeff Bezos’s selfies aboard a luxury yacht in St Barts earlier this month would have been forgiven for doing a double take. In mirrored heart-shaped shades and a gaudy £500 silk shirt so tight it might have been tattooed on to the 57-year-old’s torso, the Amazon boss looked more like US rapper Pitbull than the one-time monobrowed tech nerd who achieved global domination in a pair of high-waisted beige chinos.But it was the stunning brunette wrapped around him on the 88-foot vessel, Tender To – which cost a meagre £31,000 a week to charter – who completed the new look.
In a backless, cutaway metallic 1970s jumpsuit that left little to the imagination, Lauren Sanchez discoed her way into 2022.
As well she might. After all, if Forbes were to publish a ‘Most Powerful Girlfriends’ issue, this 52-year-old media personality would be at the top of the list.Beneath Bezos’s New Year selfie – the caption celebrating ‘personal growth, renewal, rebirth’ – his girlfriend of three years (according to official timelines at least) commented: ‘I love you baby.
For every reason and no reason.’Although when Bezos (now 58) and Sanchez first came out as a couple at Wimbledon in July 2019, cynics speculated that there might be 114 billion reasons why the striking journalist might have fallen for the tech mogul and owner of space tourism outfit Blue Origin – and a spate of predictable headlines ensued.Disregarding the fact that Sanchez was a mother of three who had been in a 14-year marriage (to Hollywood agent Patrick Whitesell) until she met Bezos, the tabloids chose to focus instead on the scarlet woman ‘with an uncanny ability to make people do anything’; the tireless temptress with a seduction routine once infamous enough in Hollywood to.
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