Jeff Bezos is taking a vacation.
Shortly after the world’s second richest man announced that he would step down as CEO of Amazon later this year, he and his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez were photographed aboard a luxury boat in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
Bezos – wearing blue swimming trunks, short-sleeved shirt and straw hat – and Sanchez, dressed in a red bikini and a white cape, were photographed on the ostentatious promenade, as well as strolling along the water in the sun.
On February 2, it was announced that Andy Jassy, head of Amazon’s cloud computing unit, will take over as CEO during the third quarter of 2021. Bezos, who founded the company 27 years ago, will serve as executive chairman of the company’s board. Amazon.
Page Six revealed exclusively in January 2019 that Bezos, 57, and Sanchez, 51, were dating – just as Bezos announced that he and his wife, MacKenzie Bezos, were getting divorced. Sanchez was also in the middle of his own divorce at the time, from Hollywood talent mogul Patrick Whitesell.
Since Bezos and Sanchez’s scandalous romance went public, Page Six reported that he had “gone to Hollywood” with flashy gestures for his girlfriend. “Risky fashion choices, lunch with Anna Wintour, an uninterrupted flurry of shameless selfies with the A-listers. . . a narcissist with poor judgment, and Lauren is giving the cards, ”said a former friend of Sanchez’s last year.
The couple who travels the world were seen on vacation in glamorous locations around the world, from St-Tropez to the Balearic Islands.