Overview

• Bill Gates attended Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s wedding welcome party in Venice with girlfriend Paula Hurd on June 26.
• The pre-wedding reception was held in a closed cloister beside the Madonna dell’Orto church and included guests such as Tom Brady, Orlando Bloom, Kris Jenner, the Kardashian and Jenner sisters, Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King.
• Gates and Hurd publicly confirmed their romance in February 2023 after being spotted together at the Laver Cup and the Australian Open earlier that year.
• They made their red carpet debut at the 10th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony in April 2024 and joined Bezos and Sánchez’s engagement party aboard the Amazon founder’s yacht on Italy’s Amalfi Coast in August 2023.
• Paula Hurd was an early reader of Gates’s memoir Source Code: My Beginnings and the couple continues to solidify their partnership through high-profile appearances.