Todd Williamson/Getty Images for Amazon Studios Patrick Whitesell, Lauren Sanchez-Whitesell and Jeff Bezos at a 2016 party
The Amazon billionaire has been seeing Sanchez-Whitesell, wife of Endeavor executive chairman Patrick Whitesell, following his split from his wife MacKenzie after 25 years of marriage. Just hours after Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie announced they are divorcing after 25 years of marriage, it is now understood that the Amazon founder and CEO has quietly been seeing Lauren Sanchez-Whitesell, wife of Endeavor executive chairman Patrick Whitesell.
News of the new relationship first reported by Page Six has been confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter. Sanchez-Whitesell and Whitesell married in 2005 and, according to sources, only recently separated. They have two children together; a daughter, born in 2008, and a son, born in 2006. Sanchez-Whitesell has another son born in 2001, from her first marriage to former NFL star Tony Gonzalez.
The Whitesells have been frequent guests to Bezos' Seattle home, a source tells THR, and the couple was photographed with Bezos at a party for the streamer's Manchester by the Sea during awards season in 2016, an event that was hosted by Bezos and producer Matt Damon, one of Whitesell's clients.