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“Sold his soul, is what it looks similar from here, the devil is smiling astatine each his conquests.”
As you astir apt cognize by now, billionaire Jeff Bezos joined his semipermanent woman Lauren Sánchez past week, with a full big of celebrated faces flocking to Italy to ticker them necktie the knot successful Venice.
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However, the extravagant celebrations person sparked superior controversy, with Venetian locals and biology groups protesting the wedding implicit concerns for overtourism successful the city.
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It’s worthy noting that Jeff and Lauren pledged to donate to 3 Venetian charities to assistance safeguard the city’s taste practice and enactment its residents amid their lavish nuptials.
Other disapproval has stemmed from the skepticism surrounding billionaires much generally, with Forbes estimating that the wedding festivities would person outgo astir $25 million.
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With some of these concerns successful mind, the hordes of celebs who attended the solemnisation person faced scrutiny, peculiarly Leonardo DiCaprio, who regularly uses his societal media level to amended his followers connected clime alteration and the value of protecting the environment.
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Other stars who were successful attendance see the Kardashian-Jenner family, sans Kourtney Kardashian-Barker, Sydney Sweeney, Orlando Bloom, and Oprah Winfrey, alongside her champion friend, Gayle King.
And Rosie O’Donnell called retired Oprah specifically erstwhile she shared a scathing station astir the Bezos wedding connected Monday. Rosie published the afloat station to her Substack, but drew attraction to it by sharing an excerpt to her Instagram relationship alongside “Then” and “Now” photos of bride Lauren.
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“It turned my tummy Seeing each these billionaires Gathering successful the gross excess of it all, The amusement of it,” Rosie’s station began. “Is Oprah friends with Jeff Bezos, Really - however is that possible, He treats his employees with disdain, By immoderate metric helium is not a bully man.”
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“And his fake fem bot wife, Who looks similar that, Why would helium take her After the brackish of the world Mackenzie,” she went on, name-checking Jeff’s archetypal wife, MacKenzie Scott. “Sold his psyche Is what it looks similar from present The devil is smiling At each his conquests.”
Rosie past mentions immoderate of the troubling things that are going connected successful the satellite astatine the moment, including concerns for the LGBTQ+ assemblage amid Donald Trump’s presidency, and the suffering successful Gaza, earlier accusing Bezos’s wedding guests of “worthless performative nonsense.”
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“We person go numb to gross excess, We person learned to tolerate it, Celebrity worship Devoid of humanity,” she adds, Rosie’s station aboriginal concludes with: “Something wrong has died And I cant fell I conscionable cant fake it.”
Earlier this year, Rosie was successful the headlines aft she revealed that she had relocated to Ireland aft Trump’s re-election, and does not program connected returning to the US until helium is retired of office.
Meanwhile, Rosie isn’t the lone personage to telephone retired those who attended Jeff and Lauren’s wedding, with histrion Charlize Theron taking a swipe astatine the guests erstwhile she told attendees astatine an Africa Outreach Project party: “I deliberation we mightiness beryllium the lone radical who did not get an invitation to the Bezos wedding. But that’s good due to the fact that they suck and we’re cool.”
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