Amazon
billionaire Jeff Bezos has
been secretly having a relationship with Lauren Sanchez, a former TV anchor and
the glamorous wife of Hollywood talent mogul Patrick Whitesell.
The world’s richest
man Bezos just announcedhis divorce from wife of 25 years MacKenzie, but Page Six can
exclusively reveal he has secretly been seeing Sanchez, a former anchor of
Fox’s “Good Day LA.”
Sources said that
Bezos, 54, and Sanchez, 49, – who also works as a helicopter pilot – got to
know each other through her WME/IMG husband Whitesell, one of Hollywood’s most
powerful men and agent to stars including Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Kevin
Costner, Hugh Jackman, plus a host of other A-listers
Patrick, Lauren and
Jeff were even pictured together at a 2016 event for the movie “Manchester By The
Sea,” which starred another of Patrick’s clients, Michelle Williams. But
sources say Lauren became closer to Bezos after she separated with Whitesell in
the fall. Meanwhile Bezos revealed on Wednesday that he and his wife have been
going through a “trial separation.”
Lauren Sanchez Whitesell
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An exclusive source
told Page Six “Patrick and Lauren have socialized with Jeff Bezos and his wife
for a few years, because both (now former) couples have houses in Seattle.
“Then Lauren was hired
to work on one of Bezos’ projects, ‘Blue Origin’, a space launch company, as a
helicopter pilot. She has been shooting aerial shots for Bezos.
“Patrick and Lauren
Sanchez have been separated for a while. Their marriage has been off and on for
a while, and they tried hard to fix things, but in the fall they officially
separated. She had told Patrick that she has been recently seeing Jeff Bezos.”
Sanchez and Whitesell
wed in 2005 and have two young children. She also has a teenage son, from her
first marriage, to former NFLer Tony Gonzalez. They have not yet formally filed
for divorce.
Patrick Whitesell and Lauren Sanchez
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Lauren, a former
co-host on Fox 11’s “Good Day LA,” has been a guest host on ABC’s “The View”
and “Extra.” She was also the original host of Fox’s “So You Think You Can
Dance.” She also runs a company called Black Ops Aviation, which specializes in
shooting aerial shots for TV shows, movies and commercials.
On Wednesday Bezos,
who has an estimated worth of $137.4 billion according to Forbes, tweeted, “We
want to make people aware of a development in our lives. As our family and close
friends know, after a long period of loving exploration and trial separation,
we have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends.”
He continued: “We feel
incredibly lucky to have found each other and deeply grateful for every one of
the years we have been married to each other. If we had known we would separate
after 25 years, we would do it all again.”
A second source told
us of Bezos and his wife, “They haven’t been seen together at any big events
together in a long time. He always seems to attend alone.”
It is believed Bezos
made the divorce announcement on Wednesday believing that photos of himself and
Sanchez could soon be made public.
Bezos, Sanchez and
Amazon did not yet respond to requests for comment.
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