Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and former journalist Lauren Sanchez are having an extravagant multi-day wedding in Venice this weekend that’s already attracted the media, celebrity guests—and more than a few protestors. The event is the culmination of a months long production by wedding planners and, very likely, by teams of lawyers who have combed through the couple’s complex finances to create an ironclad prenuptial agreement.
Both Bezos and Sanchez have been married and divorced previously, notes Marilyn Chinitz, matrimonial attorney to several billionaires and celebrities like Tom Cruise and Michael Douglas. And Bezos famously did not have a prenup during that first marriage; MacKenzie Scott, his ex-wife and an author and philanthropist, received Amazon shares worth tens of billions in their divorce. Sanchez, too, is coming into the relationship with significant wealth, though on a different scale (she and ex-husband Patrick Whitesell reportedly had a prenup that dictated the division of their assets when they divorced in 2019).
Representatives for Bezos and Sanchez did not immediately respond to a request for comment about whether the couple had a prenup, but Chinitz, who does not represent either party, says the pair likely had teams of lawyers and other professionals—estate lawyers, cross-border tax lawyers, business lawyers, forensic accountants, wealth advisers, public relations reps—working on the agreements for months to a year or longer.
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"Jeff Bezos Is Having a Super Wedding–and Likely Has a Super Prenup, Too. How the Über Rich Do Marriage Contracts," by Alicia Adamczyk was published in Fortune on June 27, 2025.
