VENICE, Italy (AP) — Oprah Winfrey arrived in Venice on Thursday, main a star-studded visitor checklist of celebrities descending on the lagoon metropolis for the weekend wedding ceremony of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez.
Winfrey’s non-public jet landed at Venice’s Marco Polo airport.
Tom Brady arrived shortly afterwards.
The bride and groom pulled into the Aman Lodge 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 carrying a glossy black and white striped, one-shoulder robe.
The small print of the nuptials have been a tightly saved secret, although the places now seem to have firmed up as has the visitor checklist.
Ivanka Trump, her husband Jared Kushner and their three kids arrived Wednesday.
Different celebrities on the visitor checklist, in accordance with two folks near the marriage who spoke on situation of anonymity, as a result of they weren’t approved to talk publicly, embody:
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 the town by the billionaire Bezos whereas strange residents endure from overtourism, excessive housing prices and the fixed menace of climate-induced flooding.
Protesters mentioned that their plans to disrupt the arrivals of company at one of many wedding ceremony venues pressured organizers to maneuver the occasion to the safer Arsenale space past Venice’s congested middle.
The town administration has strongly defended the nuptials as holding with Venice’s custom as an open metropolis that for hundreds of years has welcomed popes and emperors and strange guests alike.
“We’ll at all times respect the suitable to talk out, however we reject each type of intolerance and prejudice,” Mayor Luigi Brugnaro mentioned in Thursday’s version of Italian newspaper Il Foglio Quotidiano. “Nobody in Venice can declare the suitable of deciding who can enter, who can love, who can have fun.”