Spoils of War

June 30, 2025

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Good morning 🌥️ One of the richest men in the world, Jeff Bezos, who learned the importance of prenups after his last marriage, circled back to marry Lauren Sánchez, whom he literally hard-launched into space recently, in Venice this past week.

The three-day wedding drew about 250 guests, potentially costing up to $76M. And the Venice locals, who you’d think would be happy to not be forcibly included in Bezos’ wedding planning WhatsApp group for solicitations, took the ostentatious nuptials about as well as you’d expect. The locals’ rue and rancor ranged from rent-seeking, evidenced in the image below, to clever puns, such as “No Space for Bezos.”

Stefano Rellandini/AFP via Getty Images

—Gloria Mbabazi, Shem Opolot

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