{"id":67688,"date":"2026-05-12T12:11:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/67688\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:11:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:11:58","slug":"jeff-bezos-is-sponsoring-the-met-gala-prompting-a-boycott-call-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/67688\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos is sponsoring the Met Gala, prompting a boycott call in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Met Gala is almost here<\/a> \u2014 and some people aren’t happy with this year’s honorary guest.<\/p>\n

Signs have popped up across New York City in recent days calling for a boycott on the annual fashion fundraiser<\/a> because of its lead sponsor: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.<\/p>\n

Here’s what to know about this year’s Met Gala, and why it’s drawn the ire of some activists.<\/p>\n

\"Activists<\/p>\n

Activists project protest messages highlighting concerns of wealth inequality, climate accountability and labor rights onto the facade of a building that can be seen from Jeff Bezos’ penthouse in New York City, U.S., May 3, 2026. REUTERS\/David ‘Dee’ Delgado<\/p>\n

Why are people protesting this year’s Met Gala?<\/p>\n

Over the past few days, posters, projections and more have shown up in NYC protesting the star-studded event.<\/p>\n

Hosted\u00a0every year at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City<\/a>, the Met Gala raises money for the museum’s Costume Institute, which has a collection of more than 33,000 fashion artifacts spanning from the 15th century to present. The event brings in millions annually, last year raking in $31 million, according to the\u00a0New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This year, Bezos and Lauren S\u00e1nchez, the Met Gala and exhibition’s lead sponsor, are the honorary chairs of the event, which has led to a boycott call.<\/p>\n

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A man puts up a “Boycott the Bezos Met Gala” poster in the Midtown area of New York City, U.S., April 15, 2026. REUTERS\/Shannon Stapleton<\/p>\n

Who is protesting the Met Gala?<\/p>\n

A giant poster with a tear gas container on a red carpet is just one of the examples of signs popping up across the city.<\/p>\n

“The Bezos Met Gala,” the sign says. “Brought to you by the firm that powers ICE.”<\/p>\n

Another poster reads: “There’s no dressing it up. Met Gala chair Jeff Bezos avoids tax, enables ICE and backs Trump. Don’t let him get away with it.”<\/p>\n

The boycott signage, popping up on subway cars, walls and even displayed on the side of buildings, is seemingly being campaigned by members of a group called “Everyone Hates Elon.” Members of this activist organization have run similar campaigns against other billionaires in the past.<\/p>\n

In addition to the posters, members of the group have claimed that they’ve hidden hundreds of bottles of fake urine \u2014 a reference to past allegations against Amazon<\/a> that said workers had to urinate in bottles to keep up with time demands \u2014 in the Met Museum itself.<\/p>\n

In one of the group’s clips posted to Instagram on May 4, a video was displayed on the side of Bezos’ penthouse depicting an Amazon worker criticizing the company.<\/p>\n

“When we struggle from paycheck to paycheck, from week to week, it really angers me,” the woman in the video says.<\/p>\n

“Because if it weren’t for every associate, in every Amazon facility, he wouldn’t have all those zeros behind his name.”<\/p>\n

The Met did not immediately respond to a request for comment from USA TODAY.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Why a Met Gala boycott campaign has popped up around NYC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Met Gala is almost here \u2014 and some people aren’t happy with this year’s honorary guest. Signs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[205,24032,734,560,39534,5858],"class_list":{"0":"post-67688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jeff-bezos","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-bezos-met-gala","10":"tag-jeff-bezos","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc-protesting","13":"tag-the-met-gala"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116561545997178381","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67688","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=67688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}