Last week, Amazon founder and executive chairman Jeff Bezos married media personality Lauren Sánchez in Venice, Italy. Needless to say it was quite the event, with major guests in attendance including Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, Tobey Maguire and Lady Gaga, among others. Charlize Theron, however, was not invited to the wedding that reportedly cost $50 million, as evidenced by her comment about Bezos and Sánchez.
This topic came up while the actress was speaking at the fifth annual block party for her organization Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project (CTAOP), which was raising funds for the health and safety of the youth in her home country of South Africa. In the midst of discussing how “the world feels like it’s burning” this year, Theron had the following to say on Saturday night about the Bezos/Sánchez wedding (via THR):
I think we might be the only people who did not get an invite to the Bezos wedding. But that’s OK because they suck and we’re cool.
Khloé Kardashian, who turned heads with a curve-hugging dress; Kylie Jenner, who sounded the alarm from fans with her own outfit; and Leonardo DiCaprio, and his girlfriend Vittoria Ceretti, who accidentally ripped the vintage dress she wore. Bezos and Sánchez have been together since 2018, when they were having an affair together while both still married.
While Charlize Theron didn’t get to hobnob it with other celebrities at the wedding across the pond, it sounds like the CTAOP block party was a fun time in its own right. For one thing, Reneé Rapp stopped by to perform her 2023 song “Tummy Hurts” and her new single “Mad.” Theron’s The Old Guard 2 costars KiKi Layne, Henry Golding and Marwan Kenzari were also there, with Theron and Layne did a live version of Hot Ones with host Sean Evans and the highest bidder from the night’s fundraising auction.
You can see Charlize Theron reprising Andy, a.k.a. Andromache of Scythia, when The Old Guard 2 becomes available to stream with a Netflix subscription on Wednesday, July 2. Then next year, she’ll play Circe in Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of The Odyssey.