{"id":397782,"date":"2026-04-17T23:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/397782\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T23:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:26:10","slug":"bezos-met-gala-fury-spills-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/397782\/","title":{"rendered":"Bezos Met Gala Fury Spills Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe online grumblings that began when Amazon chief Jeff Bezos<\/a> and Lauren S\u00e1nchez were announced as lead sponsors of the Met Ball<\/a> \u2014 and the exhibition it celebrates \u2014 grew louder when organizers conspicuously omitted the glamorous spring event\u2019s primary backers while unveiling the A-list guest roster and the 2026 theme. Now, that anger has swelled into outrage, fueling a protest movement that brought a wave of guerrilla-style art to New York\u2019s subways this week.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn May 4 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the famous and the wealthy will walk the year\u2019s biggest red carpet, posing for a barrage of paparazzi photos destined to dominate online discourse for days, if not weeks. Dubbed \u201cthe party of the year,\u201d the gala is expected to draw the likes of Beyonc\u00e9, Rihanna and other A-listers, as organizers tout this year\u2019s \u201cfashion is art\u201d theme. Also in attendance: the Amazon founder and his new wife, whose financial backing helped underwrite the affair. The couple is expected to join longtime Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour atop the museum steps, greeting arriving guests. They have been named honorary chairs of the event.<\/p>\n

\n\tWintour attempted to quell the backlash over the couple\u2019s ascent to the Met Ball dais, appearing on CNN but only adding fuel to the fire. \u201cLauren S\u00e1nchez is a great lover of costume and, obviously, of fashion,\u201d she said, adding, \u201cWe\u2019re very grateful for her incredible generosity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile the February announcement made no mention of the couple or their financial contributions, savvy readers and online sleuths \u2014 many expressing contempt and disillusionment over one of the world\u2019s wealthiest men, and a perceived Trump ally, effectively buying his way into a major fashion event at a public institution \u2014 were quick to connect the dots, intensifying a growing backlash against the newly married billionaire pair.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith the Met Ball just weeks away, that backlash has spilled onto the city\u2019s streets \u2014 or more precisely, its subways \u2014 where DIY posters have begun appearing. The ads, plastered over paid placements and circulating widely on Instagram, take aim at Amazon\u2019s warehouse and delivery labor practices, as well as the company\u2019s reported ties to immigration enforcement through Amazon Web Services, its cloud-computing arm.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe spoof ads were created by U.K.-based protest collective, Everyone Hates Elon, and distributed via Google Drive for public use<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBillionaire Trump supporter Jeff Bezos is chairing the Met Gala<\/a>, celebrities\u2019 biggest night. His company literally helps ICE. WTF @metmuseum?\u201d reads one Instagram caption. \u201cDon\u2019t let him hide behind the glamour while the world burns. Join the campaign and get free stickers. Link in bio.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEmails sent to Bezos on the growing protest by The Hollywood Reporter were not immediately returned on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The online grumblings that began when Amazon chief Jeff Bezos and Lauren S\u00e1nchez were announced as lead sponsors…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46,3890,188658,188659,29762],"class_list":{"0":"post-397782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-jeff-bezos","13":"tag-lauren-sanchez-bezos","14":"tag-met-ball","15":"tag-met-gala"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}