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United Kingdom Meet the family of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez
- Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his longtime girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez, are reportedly now engaged.
- Bezos has four kids with such low profiles that some of their names aren't publicly known.
- Sanchez has three children of her own — two with her ex-husband, and her oldest with another ex.
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Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez reportedly got engaged this month after years of dating, a union that would bring their respective families even closer together.
Sanchez has said in interviews that she and Bezos are "together all the time," according to a Wall Street Journal profile in January. A former news host who became a helicopter pilot, Sanchez said that she shares many common interests with Bezos, who, in addition to founding Amazon, also founded the aerospace company Blue Origin. "We fly together. We work out together," she told the WSJ.
Both have children from prior relationships. Bezos and ex-wife MacKenzie Scott have four children, though their identities have been mostly secretive, Gawker previously reported. Meanwhile, Sanchez has three children of her own.
At the time of their divorce in 2019, Bezos and Scott both said they plan to coparent their children. Bezos wrote on Twitter that he and Scott have "had such a great life together as a married couple, and we also see wonderful futures ahead, as parents, friends, partners in ventures and projects, and as individuals pursuing ventures and adventures."
After the divorce was finalized, Scott tweeted, "Grateful to have finished the process of dissolving my marriage with Jeff with support from each other and everyone who reached out to us in kindness, and looking forward to next phase as co-parents and friends."
Representatives for Jeff Bezos and the Bezos Earth Fund, the philanthropic effort where Sanchez is vice chair, did not respond to Insider's emailed requests for comment.
Sanchez has maintained a friendly co-parenting relationship with her ex, Tony Gonzalez.
Sanchez, Gonzalez, and his wife October are often seen socializing together, and are so close that Gonzalez was even on Bezos' new $500 million superyacht together with the newly-engaged couple, Page Six reported.
Sanchez had married now ex-husband Whitesell in 2005, according to a 2017 profile in The Hollywood Reporter, which noted that her children were also learning to fly.
Sanchez and Whitesell filed for divorce in 2019, according to People, which had also reported that the the high-profile celebrity divorce lawyer Laura Wasser advised on the end of their marriage.
"On a typical Saturday, we hang out, we have dinner with the kids, which is always fun because you never know where the conversation is going to go with this many kids," Sanchez told The Wall Street Journal earlier this year. "We are the Brady Bunch!"
Sanchez, a helicopter pilot, told the Journal she learned how to co-parent with Gonzalez, so she has "more experience" with co-parenting than Bezos might have.
"Tony and his wife [October "Tobie" Gonzalez] are my best friends. It wasn't always that way. There was friction [at the beginning]. But Tony and Tobie were at Thanksgiving with us [this year], and we're really good friends," she said.
Sanchez added to the Journal: "That took about five years, but we always communicated. I'm not saying that being best friends with your ex is the end-all be-all. But you do need to be able to communicate. I'm so proud of it. My son looks at me, and he's like, 'I'm the luckiest boy in the world because I can have Thanksgiving with both my parents and they don't have to be married.'"
Bezos has discussed the parenting philosophy he'd shared with Scott, saying at an event in 2017 that they let their children access knives and power tools at a young age.
Source: People
Preston was born in 2000, which means he is either 22 or 23 now. It's likely his name comes from his father's middle name. It is unclear where Preston attended university; some reports say he attended his parents' alma mater, Princeton University.
The names and details about his brothers and sister are not well-known.
Last year, Bezos said at the premiere of Amazon's "Lord of The Rings" prequel that his son gave him some sage advice about the production — "Dad, please don't eff this up." Bezos didn't name the son, of course.
Source: People, South China Morning Post, Variety.
Bezos and Scott have also been known for their emphasis on different educational methods for their children, including something known as the Singapore math program.
Source: Independent, People, Vogue.
"We tried all sorts of things," Scott told Vogue about schooling the children. "Including off-season travel, kitchen-science experiments, chicken incubation, Mandarin lessons, the Singapore math program, and lots of clubs and sports with other neighborhood kids."
Bezos did buy some prime real estate when he and Scott were married, including a seven-bedroom Beverly Hills mansion.
Source: Vogue
On one notable occassion where he had breakfast with a business associate, Bezos ordered octopus, a choice that observers have read into for insight to his motivations and business strategy.
Source: CNBC, D Magazine.
Bezos has kept many aspects of his personal life private, including any religious beliefs.
Source: People
Bezos said Scott told him she "would much rather have a kid with nine fingers than a resourceless kid," which he agreed is a "fantastic attitude about life."
Source: People
