VENICE, Italy (AP) — Oprah Winfrey arrived in Venice on Thursday, main a star-studded visitor listing of celebrities descending on the lagoon metropolis for the weekend wedding ceremony of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez.
Winfrey’s personal jet landed at Venice’s Marco Polo airport. Tom Brady arrived shortly afterwards.
The bride and groom pulled into the Aman Resort dock on the Grand Canal on Wednesday, touring by way of water taxi with safety boats in tow. A couple of hours later they slipped out of the lodge, with Sánchez sporting a smooth black and white striped, one-shoulder robe.
The small print of the nuptials have been a tightly stored secret, although the areas now seem to have firmed up as has the visitor listing.
Ivanka Trump, her husband Jared Kushner and their three youngsters arrived Wednesday.
Different celebrities on the visitor listing, in line with two individuals near the marriage who spoke on situation of anonymity, as a result of they weren’t licensed to talk publicly, embody:
— Kim Kardashian
— Mick Jagger
— Katy Perry
— Leonardo DiCaprio
— Orlando Bloom
Italian media reported the arrivals or presence of:
— Microsoft founder Invoice Gates
— Diane von Furstenberg and her husband Barry Diller
The marriage has divided Venice, with some activists protesting it as an exploitation of town by the billionaire Bezos whereas abnormal residents endure from overtourism, excessive housing prices and the fixed risk of climate-induced flooding.
Protesters mentioned that their plans to disrupt the arrivals of friends at one of many wedding ceremony venues compelled organizers to maneuver the occasion to the safer Arsenale space past Venice’s congested middle.
Town administration has strongly defended the nuptials as preserving with Venice’s custom as an open metropolis that for hundreds of years has welcomed popes and emperors and abnormal guests alike.
“We will always respect the right to speak out, but we reject every form of intolerance and prejudice,” Mayor Luigi Brugnaro mentioned in Thursday’s version of Italian newspaper Il Foglio Quotidiano. “No one in Venice can claim the right of deciding who can enter, who can love, who can celebrate.”
