{"id":641119,"date":"2026-05-01T16:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641119\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T16:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:19:07","slug":"tom-brady-of-fashion-skips-met-gala-amid-jeff-bezos-backing-controversy-in-blow-to-iconic-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641119\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Tom Brady of fashion’ skips Met Gala amid Jeff Bezos backing controversy in blow to iconic event"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a foregone conclusion that \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2\u201d will debut this weekend at No. 1 at the box-office \u2014 but we hear there\u2019s real-life drama behind the scenes at the Met Gala centering on Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez hosting the high-end event.<\/p>\n

Anna Wintour\u2018s annual gala on Monday is being financed by the Amazon billionaire and his wife, and they\u2019ve been named as lead donors and honorary co-chairs.<\/p>\n

But like a discarded plotline<\/a> from the \u201cDevil Wears Prada 2\u201d \u2014 in which a gauche tech billionaire and his wife topline the fashion world\u2019s biggest night \u2014 some top socialites and Met Gala fixtures are skipping the ball this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2\u201d will debut this weekend at No. 1 at the box-office \u2014 but we hear there\u2019s real-life drama behind the scenes at the Met Gala concerning Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez hosting the high-end event. Walt Disney Studios<\/p>\n

Anna Wintour\u2019s annual gala on Monday is being financed this year by the Amazon billionaire and his wife, and they\u2019ve been named lead donors and honorary co-chairs. Getty Images<\/p>\n

We hear that Lauren Santo Domingo \u2014 arguably the world\u2019s No. 1 socialite and an entrepreneur behind fashion retailer Moda Operandi \u2014 will not attend the gala, according to sources.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s like Tom Brady skipping the Super Bowl,\u201d quipped an insider.<\/p>\n

We also hear that a number of top designers won\u2019t be there, including Nicolas Ghesqui\u00e8re of Louis Vuitton and JW Anderson\u2019s Jonathan Anderson.<\/p>\n

The Daily Mail reported this week that Meryl Streep \u2014 who appears on the May 2026 Vogue cover and plays the Wintour-inspired character Miranda Priestly \u2014 was rumored to have turned down a co-hosting role at the Met Gala because of Bezos and Sanchez\u2019s involvement.<\/p>\n

A rep for Streep exclusively told Page Six Hollywood: \u201cMeryl has been invited to the Met Gala for many years but has never attended. While she appreciates Vogue, Anna, and her incredible imagination and stamina \u2014 it has never quite been her scene.\u201d<\/p>\n

Streep\u2019s daughters, Grace and Mamie Gummer, are attending, as are \u201cDevil Wears Prada 2\u201d stars Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci, sources say.<\/p>\n

We hear that Lauren Santo Domingo \u2014 arguably the world\u2019s No. 1 socialite and an entrepreneur behind fashion retailer Moda Operandi \u2014 will skip the event this year. Getty Images for Tiffany & Co.<\/p>\n

The Times of London also reported this week on fashion backlash against Bezos and Sanchez hosting the event. On the other side of the spectrum, a guerrilla activist group has been protesting<\/a> the Bezos-sponsored event with posters around NYC saying \u201cBoycott the Bezos Met Gala.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sources said that Bezos\u2019 association with the Trump administration was also a turn-off to liberal fashionistas. (Most recently, reports said that Amazon MGM discussed a reboot of \u201cThe Apprentice\u201d with Donald Trump Jr.)<\/p>\n

A source told P6H: \u201cThere\u2019s going to be more friends of Jeff there than usual. Like people who wouldn\u2019t normally go, like finance people.\u201d We also hear that the guest list is heavier on LA power players than in the past.<\/p>\n

We also hear that Streep\u2019s daughters, Grace and Mamie Gummer, are attending, as are \u201cDevil Wears Prada 2\u201d stars Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci. Lev Radin\/ZUMA \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n

Beyonc\u00e9, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams and Wintour are on the Met Gala host committee, and guests expected at the fundraiser for the Met\u2019s Costume Institute include Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson, model Heidi Klum, \u201cMichael\u201d actress Laura Harrier, Patrick Schwarzenegger and influencer Emma Chamberlain, Page Six reported.<\/p>\n

Then again, Santo Domingo was reportedly a guest at Bezos and Sanchez\u2019s wedding in Venice, Italy, last year, along with society names like Fran\u00e7ois-Henri Pinault, Edward Enninful, Jennifer Meyer, Kelly Sawyer Patricof and Queen Rania of Jordan, plus celebs and big names including Kim Kardashian, Kendall Jenner, Sydney Sweeney, Scooter Braun, Orlando Bloom, Sam Altman, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, Ari Emanuel, Tom Brady, Barry Diller and DVF, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, Brian Grazer and many more.<\/p>\n

Even with the Bezos controversy at the real Met Gala, \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2\u201d is tracking to be a major hit, with Disney reportedly expecting to bring in between $70 million and $75 million domestically with an additional $100 million from foreign territories.<\/p>\n

The original \u201cDevil Wears Prada\u201d raked in $326.5 million two decades ago. The updated version \u2014 with Streep, Anne Hathaway, Blunt and Tucci returning \u2014 follows fearsome editor Miranda Priestly as she weathers a downturn in media and is forced to sit in (gasp!) coach on her way to Milan Fashion Week.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Met Gala theme is \u201cCostume Art,\u201d with a dress code of \u201cFashion is Art.\u201d (A fictional version of the gala is featured in \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2,\u201d according to reviews of the film, in which Streep\u2019s character must smile through some controversy surrounding the fictional magazine Runway. And the film even features a Bezos-like character played by Justin Theroux.)<\/p>\n

Reps for Vogue, Bezos, Santo Domingo and Griffin didn\u2019t comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a foregone conclusion that \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2\u201d will debut this weekend at No. 1 at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,3335,48,361,75,180661],"class_list":["post-641119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-page-six-hollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}