Private jets are starting to flood into Venice as celebrities and titans of business arrive for Jeff Bezos’ wedding
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Private jets are starting to flood into Venice as celebrities and titans of business arrive for Jeff Bezos’ wedding
Kim Kardashian’s Gulfstream G650 touched down at Marco Polo Airport on Thursday morning. Oprah Winfrey’s G700 also landed in Venice, per flight-tracking data. Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez kicked off their pre-wedding celebrations on Tuesday with a foam party on his $500 million superyacht Koru. More than 90 private jets are expected to land in Venice before the celebrations begin, according to the Guardian. The wedding is set to take place at the end of the month on the island of Lampedusa in the Adriatic Sea.
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Celebrities and their private jets have started landing in Venice ahead of the celebrations for Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s wedding.
Kim Kardashian’s Gulfstream G650 touched down at Marco Polo Airport on Thursday morning, according to flight-tracking data from ADS-B Exchange.
Khloe Kardashian and Kris Jenner were also photographed with her, boarding a water taxi.
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The G650, which costs around $65 million, departed Los Angeles 10 hours earlier.
Kardashian previously attended Sánchez’s bachelorette party in Paris last month, which included a boat ride down the Seine.
Then, around 10 a.m. local time, Oprah Winfrey’s G700 also landed in Venice, per ADS-B Exchange. Business Insider’s reporter in Venice saw Winfrey and broadcaster Gayle King boarding a boat at the airport.
A G650, which JetSpy data says is owned by media mogul James Murdoch, son of Rupert, landed in Venice on Thursday, too, as did another jet belonging to hedge fund billionaire John Griffin.
Bezos, the world’s fourth-richest person, owns three planes, according to JetSpy. Two of them, the G700 and a G650, have been hopping around the Mediterranean in recent days. At the moment, they’re both parked across the Adriatic Sea in Dubrovnik.
Bezos and Sánchez kicked off their pre-wedding celebrations on Tuesday with a foam party on his $500 million superyacht Koru, parked just off the Croatian coast.
Tuesday also saw the first guests land in Venice, including Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.
Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg’s G500 landed around midday, and she was photographed at the water-taxi dock.
A Bombardier Global 7500 owned by her husband, the Fox cofounder Barry Diller, arrived in Venice around noon on Wednesday, per ADS-B Exchange data.
Data from Flightradar24, which doesn’t display most private-jet arrivals for privacy reasons, showed five large business jets were scheduled to land on Thursday. That’s compared to two on Wednesday, one on Tuesday, and none on Monday.
The Guardian reported that more than 90 private jets are expected to land in Venice before the celebrations begin.
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