Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend, Mexican-born journalist Lauren Sanchez, have become engaged, according to CNN, citing a source close to the couple.
The news of the engagement between the billionaire, 59, and the Emmy Award-winning journalist, 53, is emmy Award, of 53, was also confirmed by PEOPLE magazine.
Apparently, the engagement took place while the couple was on vacation in the south of France. Over the past weekend, the two were photographed in the area aboard a yacht and attended Saturday’s preview of the film “Killers of the Flower Moon” at the Cannes Film Festival, notes PEOPLE.
Bezos and Sanchez, born into a Mexican-American family in Albuquerque (New Mexico), they made their relationship public for the first time in 2019. Since the two began dating, they have kept details of their life together private, although they have been photographed while attending some events, CNN recalled.
The businessman’s new relationship became known after he announced his divorce from MacKenzie Scott, with whom he shares four children and was married 25 years.
At the time, the former “Good Day LA” co-host was also divorcing her husband Patrick Whitesell, after 13 years of marriage. Sanchez has two children with him and another from a previous relationship with former professional soccer league (NFL) star Tony Gonzalez.
In 2022, the couple gave their first joint interview to the U.S. network CNN at their home in Washington DC, in which they talked about their philanthropic work and the charitable causes in which the billionaire, one of the richest men in the world, was involved.
Bezos is also the founder of the space company Blue Originand traveled aboard a 2021 flight into space on that company’s New Shepard rocket.
Sanchez, who is also a helicopter pilot, told CNN that she, too, plans to travel to space in the next few years and, to that end, will be joined by “a large group of women.”
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