Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sánchez prenup may include ‘signing bonus’ after billionaire's costly first divorce: expert

From luxurious vacations to PDA-filled outings, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez look to beryllium surviving a fairytale romance. However, the mates — who are expected to wed this week successful Venice, Italy — apt had to sermon their finances anterior to tying the knot. 

Bezos, who is the billionaire laminitis and CEO of Amazon, has been joined erstwhile before; truthful has Sánchez. Bezos didn't person a prenup with his archetypal woman MacKenzie Scott, and the separation near her with a 4% involvement successful the online buying giant, oregon astir $36 cardinal astatine the time.

"Bezos handled his archetypal divorcement arsenic accelerated arsenic an Amazon delivery," Christopher Melcher, an lawyer and spouse astatine Walzer Melcher & Yoda LLP, told Fox News Digital of Bezos' archetypal marriage. "It was speedy but not painless. Billions of dollars were astatine stake, which were earned during matrimony and had to beryllium divided due to the fact that determination was nary premarital agreement."

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Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos are acceptable to beryllium joined successful Venice, Italy this week.  (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Vanity Fair)

"People sometimes marque a caller spouse wage the terms for their anterior failed matrimony by insisting connected one-sided oregon overly harsh presumption successful a premarital agreement," Melcher said. "The request for extortion is understandable, but it tin spell excessively acold and harm the narration by keeping the mates from being existent partners."

"People sometimes marque a caller spouse wage the terms for their anterior failed matrimony by insisting connected one-sided oregon overly harsh presumption successful a premarital agreement."

"For Bezos, his tremendous wealthiness volition let him to beryllium generous successful his matrimony with Lauren. He has capable wealth to supply for his existing children, to marque charitable donations, portion besides creating a beardown assemblage property with Lauren."

Bezos — who is presently worthy $223.7 billion, according to Fortune — was joined to Scott for 25 years earlier their 2019 divorce.

Both Sanchez and Bezos person gone done nationalist divorces.  (Craig T Fruchtman/Getty Images)

"A prenuptial statement destroys romance and tin marque a prospective spouse consciousness unequal," Melcher, who is not representing Bezos oregon Sanchez, said. "The dialog of a prenup looks similar a divorce, conscionable done successful beforehand of marriage. The tendency to support assets could extremity up destroying the matrimony earlier it started by creating resentment.

"Because Bezos has children [four children with Scott] and different uses for his money, determination is simply a morganatic request to make immoderate guardrails astir his premarital estate," helium continued. "This tin beryllium done portion besides creating a concern with Lauren. For example, determination could beryllium a ample upfront outgo astatine day of marriage, similar a signing bonus, oregon a ample outgo connected separation, similar a severance."

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"Lauren mightiness person an involvement successful keeping her spot separate, but it is truly Bezos who would payment from a prenup," helium added. 

According to Fortune, determination are respective communal components apt to beryllium presented successful the couple's prenup — including the sharing of assets, providing enactment for Sánchez, and decease provisions.

The mates got engaged successful 2023.  (Dave Benett/amfAR/Getty Images for amfAR)

"They’ve apt been done a nightmare before, which is litigation implicit their anterior divorcement and however overmuch you’re giving the different side, oregon getting, and they don’t privation to bash that," high-profile divorcement lawyer Robert Cohen, of Cohen Clair Lans Greifer & Simpson, told the outlet. 

"[Bezos] is besides going to privation to see what he’s done to terminate his archetypal marriage, due to the fact that determination whitethorn beryllium obligations successful that that would impact the prenup," helium added.

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Sánchez, who was joined to her archetypal hubby Patrick Whitesell until 2019, allegedly signed a prenuptial agreement with Whitesell. According to TMZ, the erstwhile couple's assets and properties were divided per the agreement.

Sanchez and ex Patrick Whitesell got divorced successful 2019. They reportedly had a prenuptial agreement.  ( Jeff Vespa/WireImage)

Sánchez has 1 lad with ex-boyfriend Tony Gonzalez and 2 children with Whitesell. 

The Bezos-Sánchez wedding is reportedly being held successful Venice, Italy, wrong the adjacent fewer days. There is expected to beryllium a star-studded impermanent list, with friends of the mates making appearances. Leonardo DiCaprio, Orlando Bloom, Ivanka Trump and Oprah Winfrey are said to beryllium attending, per Page Six. Ivanka Trump was seen arriving successful Venice with her household connected Tuesday.

As guests proceed to arrive, much and much Venetian citizens person voiced their frustrations implicit the lawsuit that could perchance airs a menace to a metropolis that is already impacted by wide tourism.

The couple's wedding has been faced with protests from locals successful Venice, Italy.  (Getty Images)

However, contempt the ongoing backlash, the couple's wedding planners told Fox News Digital that Bezos and Sanchez specifically instructed them to minimize the disruptions to the champion of their quality retired of respect to the locals.  

"As lawsuit organizers who person been moving successful Venice for implicit 24 years, we consciousness obliged to acceptable the grounds consecutive fixed the misinformation, untruths and misunderstandings circulating astir the Bezos wedding," the squad astatine Lanza & Baucina Limited said successful a statement. "From the outset, instructions from our lawsuit and our ain guiding principles were abundantly clear: the minimizing of immoderate disruption to the city, the respect for its residents and institutions and the overwhelming employment of locals successful the crafting of the events.

"Rumors of ‘taking over’ the metropolis are wholly mendacious and diametrically opposed to our goals and to reality," the connection continued. "No exaggerated quantity of h2o taxis oregon gondolas person ever been booked, the fig of taxis reserved being proportionate for the fig of guests. Before the caller quality of protests arose, we had worked for determination to beryllium minimal antagonistic interaction oregon disruption to the lives of Venetians and the city’s visitors.

Venetians voiced their frustrations implicit the couple's plans to wed successful Venice.  (ANDREA PATTARO/AFP via Getty Images)

"We person ever acknowledged the wider statement and captious issues surrounding the city’s future, and from the outset our lawsuit has been honored to enactment the metropolis and its all-important lagoon done non-profit organizations and associated projects," the connection concluded. 

Mayor Luigi Brugnaro told the Associated Press that the metropolis is "very proud." 

"We are precise proud," Brugnaro said. "I don’t cognize if I volition person clip [to conscionable Bezos and Sánchez], oregon if helium will, to conscionable and shingle hands, but it’s an grant that they chose Venice. Venice erstwhile again reveals itself to beryllium a planetary stage."

The Italian wedding comes aft the 2 started dating successful 2019 and got engaged successful 2023. In precocious 2024, determination were rumors that the brace were acceptable to necktie the knot successful a $600 cardinal Aspen nuptials, but Bezos unopen down the reports, saying, "This full happening is wholly false."