{"id":54546,"date":"2026-05-03T00:11:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T00:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/54546\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T00:11:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T00:11:20","slug":"jeff-bezos-and-lauren-sanchez-bezos-to-host-met-gala-pre-party-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/54546\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos and Lauren S\u00e1nchez Bezos to host Met Gala pre-party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NEW YORK \u2014 Amazon owner Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sanchez Bezos have reportedly invited guests to a Saturday night party preceding Monday\u2019s Met Gala, which the couple is co-chairing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A disco-themed invite to the \u201cPre-Met celebration\u201d viewed by Variety promises attendees that the address for the fete will be provided upon confirmation. The couple reportedly have a home in New York City, where the party could be held.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Safeguarding the location of the Bezos\u2019 party could save the man Forbes calls the world\u2019s<a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/real-time-billionaires\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:fourth-richest person;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> fourth-richest person<\/a> from having protesters ruin his evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/04\/17\/posters-in-nyc-call-for-boycott-protest-of-bezos-met-gala\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Demonstrators denouncing;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Demonstrators denouncing<\/a> the 62-year-old hundred-billionaire\u2019s ties to the Trump administration and his online retail giant\u2019s labor practices started showing up on the Upper East Side in the weeks leading up to the May 4 gala. Other signs accused Bezos of not paying enough in taxes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bezos is no stranger to seeing protesters come between himself and a lavish celebration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When he married Lauren Sanchez in July, <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/06\/17\/jeff-bezos-venice-wedding-protest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Italian protesters in Venice;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Italian protesters in Venice<\/a> used banners and signs to make clear they weren\u2019t thrilled about the couple turning that tourist town upside down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The theme of the 2026 Met Gala is \u201c<a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/tag\/event\/met-gala\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Costume Art;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Costume Art<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Vogue said the tony night\u2019s aesthetic \u201cwill consider depictions of the dressed body from across the Met\u2019s curatorial departments, pairing garments with art objects spanning some 5,000 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Beyonc\u00e9, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams and Anna Wintour are also co-chairing Monday\u2019s celebration benefiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art\u2019s Costume Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Amazon owner Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sanchez Bezos have reportedly invited guests to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[734,12533,7541],"class_list":{"0":"post-54546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jeff-bezos","8":"tag-jeff-bezos","9":"tag-lauren-sanchez-bezos","10":"tag-met-gala"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116507750014579507","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}