The founder of Amazon got engaged to his Mexican girlfriend

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend, former journalist of Mexican origin Lauren Sánchez, are engaged, reports CNN, citing someone close to the couple as the source of the news.

Engagement news between billionaire, 59 years oldand an award-winning journalist Emmy Award, 53rdit was also confirmed by PEOPLE magazine.

Allegedly, a compromise was reached when couple I was on vacation in the south of France. Over the past weekend, the two were photographed in the area on a yacht and attended the premiere of “Killers of the Flower Moon” at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, PEOPLE notes.

Bezos and Sanchez, born into the family A Mexican American in Albuquerque, New Mexico, They announced their relationship publicly for the first time in 2019. Since the two started dating, they kept the details of their life together a secret, although they were photographed while they were at some events, CNN recalled.

The businessman’s new relationship became known after he announced his divorce from MacKenzie Scott, with whom he has four children and was married for 25 years.

At the time, the former co-host of the show Good day LAShe also divorced her husband Patrick Whitesell, after 13 years of marriage, with whom Sánchez has two children and another from a previous relationship with former NFL star Tony González.

In 2022, the couple gave their first joint interview to The American network CNN at its home in Washington DC, in which they talked about their philanthropic work and charitable causes involving the billionaire, one of the richest people in the world.

Bezos is also the founder of a space company Blue Origin, and traveled on a 2021 space flight on the company’s New Shepard rocket.

Sánchez, who is also a helicopter pilot, said CNN that she also plans to travel into space in the coming years and that “a large group of women” will join her for that.