Rosie O’Donnell Shades Bezos’ $50M Venice Wedding
Here we go—Rosie O’Donnell couldn’t resist throwing shade at Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s multi-day Venice wedding, proving that even a $50 million bash can’t buy you a break from public side-eye. The former talk-show titan took to Instagram on June 30 to call out “The BEZOS wedding,” writing that it “turned my stomach” and highlighting “all these billionaires gathering in the gross excess of it all. The show of it.” I don’t want to say “I told you so,” but shouldn’t rolling out a yacht-powered carnival in a UNESCO heritage city set off more than a few guilt alarms?
Not content with a single post, Rosie tagged her rant #pathetic and #sad while resharing a tweet contrasting Bezos’s splurge with Americans losing Medicaid and SNAP benefits. According to the viral tweet she endorsed, federal benefit cuts for struggling families supposedly paved the way for Bezos’s “huge tax cut,” making the whole affair feel “disgusting and just wrong.” Charming—nothing says romance like Instagram soap-boxing.
Rosie wasn’t alone in her eye-rolling. Charlize Theron cracked that she and her circle must be among the few uninvited to this billionaire blowout, quipping during L.A.’s Africa Outreach Block Party that “they suck and we’re cool.” Meanwhile, TV legend Katie Couric couldn’t help but channel ’80s excess, commenting on Jack Schlossberg’s wedding snapshots, “Apparently tacky is back,” after Lauren stunned in her custom Dolce & Gabbana white gown. Because nothing says “timeless elegance” like feathery coats and conspicuous consumption on the Grand Canal.
Of course, we can’t skip the celebrity roll call: Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King in coordinated reds and pinks, Leonardo DiCaprio rocking a Dodgers cap under his tux, Kim Kardashian hugging her curves in black, and Kris Jenner cheerfully cruising in a water taxi with Corey Gamble. Even Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner popped up to raise eyebrows. Did anyone expect them to RSVP “no”? No? Thought so.
All this glitz in Venice certainly illustrates one point: when you have more money than you know what to do with, you hurl it at every possible surface and hope for applause. But hey, if you can’t afford a gondola ride, at least you’ve got Rosie’s cathartic commentary to keep you company. And that, dear reader, is why we can’t have nice things.
Sources: Celebrity Storm and People Magazine, E! Online
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