Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sánchez moving to Florida from Seattle
Jeff Bezos and his fiancée Lauren Sánchez are moving to the Sunshine State.
The Amazon founder announced that the couple is trading Seattle, where he built his empire, for the picturesque ocean views of Miami to be nearer to his loved ones.
“I want to be close to my parents, and Lauren and I love Miami,” he said in an Instagram post Thursday night.
“As exciting as the move is, it’s an emotional decision for me. Seattle, you will always have a piece of my heart.”
Sánchez, for her part, seems excited about the move, as she commented on his post, “Miami ❤️.”
Bezos fueled nostalgia when he shared a throwback video of himself in Amazon’s first-ever “office” in the Rainy City, where he founded the $1.4 trillion company in his garage in 1994.
“It doesn’t take long to tour the offices of Amazon.com, Inc,” the then-30-year-old CEO said in the video.
The heartwarming clip was filmed by his adoptive father Miguel.
Miguel married Bezos’s mother, Jackie, when the billionaire was a young child. Both are now in their late 70s.
“My parents have always been my biggest supporters. They recently moved back to Miami, the place we lived when I was younger,” he wrote.
Bezos said that his aerospace company, Blue Origin, is “increasingly shifting” its operations to Florida’s Cape Canaveral.
While he’s excited for the move, Bezos admitted it’s bittersweet as he’s lived in Seattle the longest.
“[I] have so many amazing memories here,” he wrote. “As exciting as the move is, it’s an emotional decision for me. Seattle, you will always have a piece of my heart.”
The couple’s relocation comes hot on the heels of Bezos’s recent purchase of a mansion on a small private island in Biscayne Bay.
The 59-year-old snapped up the sprawling estate for a whopping $79 million in September, Bloomberg reported.
And just months before, Bezos bought a “Billionaire Bunker” neighboring home there for $68 million.
The two homes take up around 1.8 acres on the Florida island, the outlet adds.
In May, Bezos proposed to Sánchez, 53, during their ultra-luxe yacht trip to Cannes Film Festival.
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The couple have been inseparable since they started dating in 2018.
Page Six confirmed that the couple’s love story kickstarted in 2019, but the duo kept a low profile until his divorce from his wife of 25 years, MacKenzie Scott, was finalized.
Rumors of the pair’s engagement first began to swirl in December 2019, when Sanchez was seen wearing a huge heart-shaped sparkler.
When Sánchez became involved with Bezos, she was separated from Hollywood talent mogul Patrick Whitesell, with whom she shares two kids: Ella, 15, and Evan, 16.
Sánchez also shares 22-year-old son Nikko with former NFL player Tony Gonzalez.
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