EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Bezos' Met Gala 'Bribe' — Exact Eye-Watering Amount Amazon Founder Paid to Become Face of Fashion Show

Critics slam the “cash-for-access” culture.

May 05, 2026

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Jeff Bezos is said to have poured a staggering sum into securing a starring role at this year’s Met Gala spectacle – in a move critics tell THE GROUP CHAT should leave the public “sickened” at America’s increasingly gaping wealth divide.

Amazon founder Bezos, 62, and his wife Lauren Sánchez, 56, served as honorary co-chairs of the 2026 fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York alongside Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, and long-time organizer Anna Wintour.

image of Activists plastered NYC with boycott messages ahead of fashion's biggest night.

The event – held on May 4 under the theme “Costume Art” – remains one of fashion’s most visible intersections of celebrity, philanthropy and power.

Former Vogue editor William Norwich hit out ahead of this year’s ceremony:

EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Bezos' Met Gala 'Bribe' — Exact Eye-Watering Amount Amazon Founder Paid to Become Face of Fashion Show

Critics slam the “cash-for-access” culture.

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