Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, interrupted his holiday in the Mediterranean to deal with a crisis at The Washington Post, which he owns. In a Tuesday email to Post execs backing his embattled publisher Will Lewis , Bezos said, “The journalistic standards and ethics at The Post will not change.” Lewis, a Brit, is under fire for some of the sleazy reporting tactics used at papers he worked for in London.
The Amazon founder — worth $211 billion — and his fiancée Lauren Sanchez were on the Greek island Mykonos . The loved-up duo flew into Greece on one of their three private jets , worth $65 million apiece, to sail around the Greek islands for a week. Sanchez, who has a pilot’s license, flew one of their helicopters from the airport and landed on their $500 million super yacht Koru, which means “new beginnings” in Maori.
The boat features a topless figure of Freyja, the Norse goddess of love and fertility, on the bow. To get to dinner, the couple choppered off their boat and landed in town where they were whisked to Noema , a restaurant in the old part of the city, in a black SUV with tinted windows followed by a van with four security guards. Because no cars are allowed in the historical part of the city, the couple had to walk to the restaurant trailed by armed guards.
Sanchez, in a low-cut and figure-hugging yellow dress , and Bezos, dressed in cream-colored short-sleeved shirt and navy slacks, smiled and wa.
