{"id":245473,"date":"2021-05-08T22:27:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T19:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-jeff-bezos-affair-with-lauren-sanchez-was-revealed\/"},"modified":"2021-05-08T22:27:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T19:27:41","slug":"how-jeff-bezos-affair-with-lauren-sanchez-was-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-jeff-bezos-affair-with-lauren-sanchez-was-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"#How Jeff Bezos\u2019 affair with Lauren Sanchez was revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#How Jeff Bezos\u2019 affair with Lauren Sanchez was revealed<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n

Amazon executives suspected Jeff Bezos was poised to divorce his wife when they noticed their boss taking an unusually keen interest in helicopters \u2014 a mode of transportation he had always despised.<\/p>\n

In the summer of 2018 the married founder of Amazon was secretly dating Lauren Sanchez, the owner of Black Ops Aviation and a helicopter pilot in her own right. <\/p>\n

Company executives were \u201cperplexed\u201d when they noticed the budget charges for Black Ops, which Bezos had hired to film a test flight for his secretive Blue Origin space enterprise, according to Brad Stone\u2019s \u201cAmazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire<\/a>\u201d (Simon & Schuster), out Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was another unfathomable shift to contemplate because as they all knew, Jeff Bezos hated helicopters,\u201d writes Stone, who was given access to Amazon executives for his follow-up to his 2013 bestseller, \u201cThe Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon.<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n

The voluptuous Sanchez, a former anchor for Fox News<\/a> in Los Angeles, was by Bezos\u2019 side for the ninth test flight of the \u201cNew Shepard\u201d rocket at his sprawling Texas ranch in July 2018. Sanchez was also married at the time, to celebrity agent Patrick Whitesell, chair of the Endeavor talent agency, who introduced his wife to Bezos in 2016. (It\u2019s unclear when the affair began, according to Stone.)<\/p>\n

\n
\"Lauren
Amazon executives began to notice that Bezos was unusually distracted in 2018.<\/figcaption>
Prodip Guha\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Until their affair was revealed by the National Enquirer<\/a> months later, the \u201cguarded\u201d Bezos carried on with \u201can intact marriage\u201d with MacKenzie, his wife of 25 years and the mother of their four children. In April 2018, the world\u2019s richest man even took his family on vacation to an ice hotel in Norway to celebrate her birthday, writes Stone, citing court papers.<\/p>\n

But by the fall of 2018 Amazon executives had noticed that their usually very focused boss was distracted and increasingly hard to locate, writes Stone. And the helicopters he once hated had become something of an obsession. Bezos\u2019 holding company purchased one, and Amazon\u2019s unpopular proposal to include helipads at a proposed second headquarters in Long Island City \u201ccame right from the top\u201d and helped scuttle the deal in 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust to set the record straight, I did have a relationship with this woman,\u201d Bezos told his top executives as he tried to get ahead of the Enquirer\u2019s revelations, which included leaked photos and steamy texts. \u201cBut the story is completely wrong and out of order. MacKenzie and I have had good, healthy adult conversations about it. She is fine. The kids are fine. The media<\/a> is having a field day. All of this is very distracting, so thank you for being focused on the business.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bezos announced his divorce in a Jan. 9, 2019, tweet<\/a> as the Enquirer story shocked the world. Dozens of current and former employees were \u201csurprised and disapp<\/a>ointed by Bezos\u2019s affair,\u201d writes Stone. <\/p>\n

\"Jeff
Bezos announced his divorce in a tweet after news of his relationship with Sanchez was published by the National Enquirer.<\/figcaption>
Spread Pictures\/MEGA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Most of all, they were shocked by a new truth:<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir infallible and righteous leader was, after all, a flawed human.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n