Jeff Bezos' Wedding Triggers Climate Protest in St. Mark’s Square

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez are using the same 7-star luxury hotel in Venice that George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin stayed in for their 2014 wedding in the lagoon city, sources said Wednesday, CE Report quotes ANSA.

Probably the most luxurious hotel in Venice, the Aman, the same one that hosted Clooney and Alamuddin's wedding party 11 years ago, will also be the 'nest' of Amazon boss Bezos and journalist and pilot Sanchez from Thursday, in view of the exchange of rings on Friday, June 27, and the after-party on Saturday.

In the hotel on the Grand Canal, inside the iconic Palazzo Papadopoli, preparations are already underway to welcome Mr. and Mrs.

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Amazon, in the utmost secrecy and with all the 'security screens' possible.

In front of the hotel's water entrance, a blue and white striped gazebo has been set up on the pier to protect the privacy of the Bezoses and other VIP guests expected at the resort.

Meanwhile, the docks in Venice are crowded with new billion-dollar yachts, which arrived Tuesday evening.

Among these is the 'Were Dream', a 52-metre vessel owned by Russian businessman Andrej Kostin, anchored in Riva Sette Martiri.

Mega yachts and private jets started arriving in Venice Tuesday for the big wedding bash Thursday through Saturday.

Fund manager and philanthropist Bill Miller's 60-metre, 70 million dollar yacht l'Arience and billionaire Shahid 'Shad' Khan's 122-metre yacht Kismet were among the first vessels to dock in the lagoon city where protests about Bezos's "buyout" of the priciest major central amenities have gathered pace recently.

The yacht belonging to Khan, who owns Premier League soccer club Fulham and NFL team Jackonsville Jaguars, is one of the few boats in the world with a cryotherapy room.

Officials at Marco Polo Airport were tight-lipped about who had arrived on the flock of private jets that have already landed there, given the high security and secrecy surrounding the year's toniest global nuptials.

But it is known that among the big names on the approximately 200-person guest list for the Bezos-Sanchez wedding are celebrities like Oprah Winfrey, Mick Jagger and Leonardo DiCaprio, as well as Katy Perry, who traveled to space alongside Sanchez on a Blue Origin flight in April, AP reported this week.

Other guests reportedly include Kim Kardashian, Robert Pattinson, Bill Gates and Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka, who arrived in Modena Monday night and was spotted shopping in Venice Wednesday morning.

The presence of Donald Jr has not been confirmed. Also this week, Greenpeace Italia and British action group Everyone Hates Elon unfurled a 400-square-meter banner in Venice's Saint Mark's Square protesting against Bezos.

"If you can rent Venice for your wedding, you can pay more tax," the banner read.

Greenpeace said the protest aimed to highlight the "social and climate injustice" of such events.

"Bezos embodies an economic and social model that is leading us towards collapse," it said.

"Social injustice increasingly goes hand in hand with climate injustice: on one side the arrogance of a few billionaires who have lifestyles that are devastating for the planet, on the other all the people who suffer the damage of the environmental crisis on a daily basis".

Bezos and Sanchez are reportedly due to exchange rings at the Fondazione Cini on the island of San Giorgio on Friday.