Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos denied a report that he planned to get married Dec. 28 in Aspen, Colorado, where he supposedly would spend more than half a billion dollars on the event.
The Daily Mail first reported, according to a "well-placed source," that Bezos and Lauren Sánchez had bought out a ritzy sushi restaurant in the ski town for Dec. 26 or 27, with their nuptials planned for Dec. 28.
On Sunday morning, Bezos used social platform X to comment on the report while sharing fellow billionaire Bill Ackman's post saying the report was "not credible."
"Furthermore, this whole thing is completely false — none of this is happening," Bezos wrote on X. "The old adage 'don't believe everything you read' is even more true today than it ever has been. Now lies can get ALL the way around the world before the truth can get its pants on. So be careful out there folks and don't be gullible.
"Will be interesting to see if all the outlets that 'covered' and re-reported on this issue a correction when it comes and goes and doesn't happen."
DailyMail updated its story to include Bezos' denial. The outlet added that three sources had said they were informed of the Bezos wedding taking place Dec. 28.
Sánchez sharing Bezos' post on her Instagram stories and added: "Not true."
Bezos, 60, and ex-TV news anchor Sánchez, 55, have said little about their planned nuptials since he proposed aboard his $500 million superyacht in May 2023.
In November 2023, Sánchez told Vogue she hadn't started planning the wedding at that point.
"We're still thinking about the wedding," she told the magazine. "Is it going to be big? Is it going to be overseas? We don't know yet.'"
Bezos was asked whether he planned to get involved in the plans.
"Oh, God, no. Do I look that dumb?" he said.
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