MOST POWERFUL GIRLFRIEND?
ANYONE who chanced upon Jeff Bezos’ selfies aboard a luxury yacht in the Caribbean earlier this year would have been forgiven for doing a double take.
In mirrored heart-shaped shades and a gaudy silk shirt so tight it might have been tattooed onto the 57-year-old’s torso, the Amazon boss looked more like a US rapper than the one-time monobrowed tech nerd who achieved global domination in a pair of high-waisted beige chinos.
But it was the stunning brunette wrapped around him on the 27-metre vessel, Tender To – which cost a meagre $42 000 (R651 000) a week to charter – who completed the new look. In a backless, cutaway metallic 1970s jumpsuit that left little to the imagination, Lauren Sanchez discoed her way into 2022.
As well she might. After all, if Forbes were to publish a Most Powerful Girlfriends issue, this 52-year-old media personality would be at the top of the list.
Beneath Jeff ’s New Year selfie – the caption celebrating “personal growth, renewal, rebirth” – his girlfriend of three years (according to official timelines at least) commented: “I love you, baby. For every
