Rosie O’Donnell Slams Bezos Wedding Attendee
Rosie O’Donnell has reignited political and cultural tensions with a public attack on media titan Oprah Winfrey for attending Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s extravagant wedding in Venice, Italy. O’Donnell, a longtime progressive figure and vocal Trump critic, used Instagram to voice her frustration with what she called “gross excess” and “billionaire spectacle.”
In a post published Monday, O’Donnell wrote: “The Bezos’ wedding. It turned my stomach seeing all these billionaires gathering in the gross excess of it all. The show of it.”
She then singled out Oprah, questioning her alignment with Bezos: “Is Oprah friends with Jeff Bezos? Really? How is that possible? He treats his employees with disdain. By any metric he is not a nice man.” O’Donnell didn’t stop there, calling Sánchez a “fake fem bot wife” and contrasting her sharply with Bezos’s ex-wife, philanthropist MacKenzie Scott.
The comments come amid a broader backlash over the wedding’s display of wealth. Held in Venice, the event drew international headlines not only for its guest list—featuring Oprah, Gayle King, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Brady, the Kardashian family, Orlando Bloom, and political figures like Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner—but also for the protests it provoked across the city.
According to CNN, hundreds of demonstrators assembled near the wedding venue to voice opposition to what they saw as billionaire overreach and exploitation.
“Bezos goes hand-in-hand with Trump, who’s fueling more money in war,” one protester was quoted as saying. “We are for peace.” Another protester denounced Bezos for “abusing this city as a place to show off.”
Adding fuel to the controversy, actress Charlize Theron mocked the affair while speaking at a public event. “I think we might be the only people who did not get an invite to the Bezos wedding,” she said. “But that’s okay, because they suck and we’re cool.”
O’Donnell’s outburst is the latest in a series of public criticisms she’s leveled at billionaires and media elites.
Her remarks also draw attention to deepening ideological divisions within the entertainment industry, as prominent progressive figures confront former allies over perceived contradictions in values.