Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his fiancé, Lauren Sánchez, are reportedly moving one of their wedding venues to a former Italian shipyard — completely surrounded by water — due to security concerns following a rise in protests in Venice, Italy, against the couple’s forthcoming wedding events.
Some 200 to 250 high-profile guests are expected to arrive in Venice after Bezos and Sánchez’s wedding ceremony, to which residents and pressure groups have reacted by accusing the U.S. billionaires of turning their “scenic city of gondolas and palazzi into a private amusement park for the rich,” Reuters reported.
In addition to protesters’ claims that Venice will be disrupted by the A-list wedding, some of the disruptors have reportedly cited their opposition to Bezos over his newfound support for
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