Kim Kardashian aside, there's a new It girl in town, and she's got a billionaire on her hands.
Lauren Sanchez, 54, is a bona fide celebrity, Vogue cover girl, and fiancée to the richest man in the world, but life hasn't always been this easy.
At just 18 years old and weighing just 8 stone 6 pounds (121 pounds), the teenage beauty was told she was “too heavy” for a career as a flight attendant.
Rejected by a devastated stewardess, she took flight and became a big-time news anchor for Fox Sportsnet, where she began rubbing shoulders with stars like Kris Jenner and Jessica Alba.
Lauren met Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, 60, at a Tinseltown party in 2016, and eight years later she has a £2 million diamond on her finger.
This is the second marriage for Bezos, who has a son, Preston, with his ex-wife, American novelist Mackenzie Scott. Preston was born in 2000 and is believed to be around 24 years old.
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Lauren enjoys a life of extreme luxury, with Jeff whisking her away on his private jet, stays in five-star hotels and the most expensive dinner dates his £141 billion fortune can buy.
Thanks to her hard work and vast wealth, Lauren lives in a £130 million house in Beverly Hills and is set to blast off into the galaxy this year aboard Geoff's Blue Origin spacecraft.
But she doesn't live alone in the world of billionaire wives.
From a Hawaiian retreat to an apocalyptic bunker to a Korean monk's massage to a six-figure shopping trip, we meet the women behind the billionaire's…
Three lavish weddings, a mega-yacht vacation, and a six-figure shopping trip.
Salma Hayek and François Henri Pinault
Total net worth: £31.156 billion
Did you know that movie queen Salma Hayek is married to a billionaire?
The 57-year-old Mexican-American played “Pina” Auriemma, an accomplice in Maurizio Gucci's murder, in the 2021 blockbuster “House of Gucci.”
She married François-Henri Pinault in 2009, CEO of luxury brand group Kering, which owns brands such as Gucci, Saint Laurent and Balenciaga.
The actress chose to marry much later in life, at about 43 years old.
Salma boasts a net worth of over £156 million, which doesn't even scratch her husband's estimated £31 billion fortune.
The couple met in Venice in 2006, married three times in an intimate ceremony in Paris in 2009, renewed their vows a few months later in Venice, and then in Bora Bora in 2018.
I didn't see the point in having privileges if I couldn't earn them.
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The 61-year-old French billionaire is taking his wife and daughter Valentina Paloma, whom Salma welcomed 41 years ago, on a lavish holiday.
Last year's destinations included Colorado, Jordan and Paris.
He also treats Salma to luxury shopping and lots of diamonds.
Back in 2011, Salma told Allure: “I never understood the point of having privileges when you can’t have them.”
Salma maintains her ageless figure thanks to her vast pool, sunbathing on a mega-yacht, and rubbing shoulders with fellow celebrities Linda Evangelista and Penelope Cruz.
Chatting with Kelly Ripa on her podcast “Let's Talk Off Camera” last year, she revealed non-invasive skin tightening treatments that include radiofrequency and microwave machines.
Treatment prices vary from £50 to £3,500 per session.
“I use frequency machines a lot, and they work better for me than anyone else,” she said.
“The people who make the machines say they can't get the results I get from anyone else.”
A million dollar mansion and a £50,000 trip
Evan Spiegel and Miranda Kerr
Total net worth: £3,147m
Victoria's Secret model Miranda Kerr proved she's more than just pretty by marrying Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel, who is worth a whopping £3.1bn.
The man behind the social app became one of the world's youngest billionaires in 2015 at the age of 25 and married Miranda two years later.
Miranda has a very healthy net worth (approximately £47 million) thanks to her modeling work with Prada and Givenchy, and is also the founder of KORA Organics skincare.
She is best friends with mum-to-be Kourtney Kardashian and owns an ocean-view home in Malibu worth more than £2 million.
Miranda, 40, who has a 13-year-old son, Flynn, with ex-husband Orlando Bloom, met Evan at a Louis Vuitton fashion event in 2014.
During their first date, Evan gave her a homemade gingerbread house with his name written in frosting.
His romantic touch won Miranda's heart and the pair wed in May 2017 in the garden of his £9 million mansion in Brentwood, California.
The couple honeymooned at a resort owned by Red Bull billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz on Fiji's private island of Laucala, where villas cost up to £50,000 a night.
The couple have two children, Hart, 5, and Miles, 4, and are expecting their fourth child soon.
Sources revealed that before Hart's birth, there were about 1,000 details about Hart's nursery, including a custom-made crib and a walk-in closet filled with designer baby clothes from Ralph Lauren to Dior to Stella McCartney. He told Life & Style that he had dropped £200,000.
After the kids go to bed, she has all the wellness items at her fingertips, including a Reiki facial and deep tissue massage by a former Korean monk.
She told Luxury London: “I love to take a bath once a week and I put a rose quartz crystal in the bottom of the bathtub.”
Hawaii luxury retreats and six-figure homes
mark zuckerberg and priscilla chan
Total net worth: £133,405,000,000
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg changed his status to “married” in 2012 when he married his Harvard girlfriend, Dr. Priscilla Chan.
Appearing on the America's Today show in 2014, Priscilla recalled how she first met the future billionaire, who is now worth £133.3bn, while waiting to use the toilet at a fraternity party. .
“I thought he was a really interesting guy and not really that studious,” she said of her husband, who now has a net worth of more than £105 million.
Priscilla, a famous former elementary school teacher and pediatrician, is the mother of three daughters: Maxima, eight, August, six, and Aurelia, who will turn one in March.
Priscilla is more than just “Mark Zuckerberg's wife”; she is also the co-founder of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which aims to eradicate disease, among other philanthropic efforts.
The couple have vowed to give away most of their fortune, including a £212m estate in Hawaii where they reportedly plan to build a huge underground shelter, as well as several six-figure pads, according to Wired. and enjoy the finer things in life. It straddles Palo Alto, California and Lake Tahoe.
Hollywood soirees, luxury lakehouses and pop star parties
Kevin and Nicole Systrom
Total net worth: at least £1.8bn
When this American power couple laid eyes on each other, their billionaire romance was destined to spotlight Instagram grids.
According to Vogue, Nicole (née Schuetz) sparked a spark with Instagram founder Kevin at Stanford University.
The two got engaged in 2014, the same year Nicole founded the clean energy investment company Sutro with the sweetest proposal ever.
According to the magazine, Kevin convinced his future bride that his Instagram-famous golden retriever puppy, Dolly, had run away, but this was a trick to lure Nicole to the sunset proposal location in Lake Tahoe, California. It is said that
Kevin told Architectural Digest: “I proposed to Nicole on the docks.” [of their sprawling Lake Tahoe retreat].
“It was Thanksgiving Day, and the lake was glass-still. Our first real date was on a weekend ski trip to Lake Tahoe in college, so we had a great time there. I thought it would be appropriate to propose.”
The two married in Napa, California in 2015 and celebrated with a Jazz Age-themed masquerade ball over Halloween weekend.
Although tech mogul Kevin's net worth is a whopping £1.8 billion and Nicole's net worth is less widely reported, the influential couple are often spotted at lavish dinners and parties such as the Met Gala, which attracts Hollywood's hottest crowds. Ru.
They had a baby girl, Freya, who was born in 2018.
Mum Nicole regularly posts stunning photos of herself on Instagram, including a recent snap of herself in a ball gown, which she wrote: “The only outfit Freya didn't throw up in this week.”
Top 10 billionaires in the world
- Bernard Arnault, CEO of luxury goods company LVMH
167.6 billion pounds - Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors
154.9 billion pounds - Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder
153.1 billion pounds - Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook co-founder
128.7 billion pounds - Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle
144.6 billion pounds - Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
102.4 billion pounds - Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft
97.9 billion pounds - Larry Page, Google co-founder
95.7 billion pounds - Steve Ballmer, former Microsoft CEO and Los Angeles Clippers owner
94.8 billion pounds - Sergey Brin, Google co-founder
91.8 billion pounds