Charlize Theron, Rosie O’Donnell, and More Have Harsh Words For Jeff Bezos’s “Gross” Wedding

Although it may seem like every star in the world attended Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos’s Venice wedding this past weekend, not every celebrity was invited—or wanted to be, for that matter. Charlize Theron, Rosie O’Donnell, and others have joined the chorus of angry Venetian protestors criticizing the billionaire Amazon founder’s “gross” wedding.

A-list stars like Oprah Winfrey, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Brady, and the majority of the Kardashian-Jenner clan, as well as political figures like Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, attended the second wedding of the fourth-richest man in the world to Sánchez, a former journalist, licensed pilot, and outer space enthusiast. While speaking in Los Angeles Saturday at the fifth annual block party for her charity, Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project, Theron made it clear that she was not sad to be left off the guest list of the Bezos’s approximately $50 million shindig.

“I think we might be the only people who did not get an invite to the Bezos wedding, but that’s okay because they suck and we’re cool,” the Oscar winner said. Theron then thanked attendees for coming to her charity event, “especially when the world feels like it’s burning because it is.”

“Here in Los Angeles, in the US and across the globe, we’re moving backwards fast,” she added.

The Oscar-winner and humanitarian delineated some of the many problems society is currently facing. “Immigration policy has destroyed the lives of families, not criminals; women’s rights are becoming less and less every day; queer and trans lives are increasingly being erased; and gender-based violence is on the rise,” she said. “This isn’t just policy, it’s personal.” In case it wasn’t clear she was still in conversation with the Bezos wedding, Theron ended her polemic with the following remark: “Yeah, fuck them.”

Theron is not the only celebrity worried about both the state of the world and the Amazon billionaire’s role in shaping it. In a poem titled “Jeff’s Wedding” posted on her personal Substack, Rosie O’Donnell lamented the Bezos nuptials. “It turned my stomach / Seeing all these billionaires / Gathering in the gross excess of it all / The show of it,” she wrote. “Is Oprah friends with Jeff Bezos / Really – how is that possible / He treats his employees with disdain / By any metric he is not a nice man.” O’Donnell also took some direct shots at Bezos’s new wife in her poem, while hyping up his ex-wife, philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. “And his fake fem bot wife / Who looks like that / Why would he choose her / After the salt of the earth Mackenzie.” She ended the post with a side-by-side comparison of two photos of Sánchez, captioned “Then” and “Now”—seemingly meant to draw attention to how the new Mrs. Bezos has physically changed over the years.

Others have been more subtle in their criticism of the Bezos wedding. Over the weekend, recent Tony nominee Mia Farrow posted a headshot of Scott with the following caption: “How awesome is MacKenzie Scott! (Jeff Bezos’s first wife & mother of his 4 children). As of mid-December 2024, she had given a total of $19.3 billion to over 1600 charitable organizations.” Olivia Munn, who previously criticized Sánchez’s recent trip to outer space as “gluttonous,” left a pointed comment on Farrow’s Instagram. “Truly incredible,” she wrote.

While she didn’t criticize the wedding itself, Katie Couric also apparently had some notes on Sánchez’s wedding dress. According to TMZ, the former CBS Evening News anchor left a scathing comment on Jack Schlossberg’s now deleted Instagram post of Sánchez in her Dolce & Gabbana wedding dress. “Welcome to the eighties—when big hair and conspicuous consumption ruled,” she wrote. “Apparently tacky is back.” You can have all the money in the world, but you can’t buy (everyone’s) friendship.