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July 1, 2025

Charlize Throws Shade At Jeff Bezos‘ $50 Million Wedding, Contrasting It With Our Burning World And Inequality In SA

While A-listers sipped champagne in Venice, Charlize Theron was serving truth bombs in LA and not holding back.

[Image: Instagram/ charlizeafrica]

Charlize Theron didn’t just skip Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s $50-million Venice wedding — she publicly dunked on it with the kind of spicy sass only a South African Oscar-winner could deliver.

Speaking at her fifth annual Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project (CTAOP) Block Party in LA, she aimed a glitter-coated grenade at the A-list circus in Italy.

“I think we might be the only people who did not get an invite to the Bezos wedding. But that’s OK because they suck and we’re cool,” said Theron to roaring applause.

Then, just to really make sure the point landed, she added: “Yeah, f–k them.”

Sure, it got a laugh, but Theron wasn’t just there to roast billionaires in tuxedos. She pivoted sharply, reminding her crowd why they were really there: not for lobster canapés and designer gowns, but to do something in a world on fire.

“Especially when the world feels like it’s burning, because it is.”

With zero patience for performative activism, Theron called out the escalating crises — from gender-based violence to anti-immigration policies and attacks on queer and trans rights:

“Here in Los Angeles, in the U.S. and across the globe, we’re moving backwards fast,” Theron said. “Immigration policy has destroyed the lives of families, not criminals; women’s rights are becoming less and less every day; queer and trans lives are increasingly being erased; and gender-based violence is on the rise.

“This isn’t just policy, it’s personal.”

And for anyone thinking she left her native South Africa out of the conversation, she made sure to connect the dots: according to Variety, Theron claimed US foreign aid cuts — especially under the Trump administration — had already caused irreparable harm.

“Foreign aid cuts brought HIV and Aids programmes in my home country of South Africa to an absolute standstill. All of this is not just detrimental, it’s dangerous.”

“People will lose their lives. Many have already, unfortunately, and at a frightening rate. It’s absolutely heartbreaking to see this kind of unnecessary suffering.”

While Bezos and Sánchez rented out half of Venice for a glitzy, three-day wedding with over 200 VIPs — Oprah, DiCaprio, the Kardashians, Tom Brady, and even Matteo Bocelli on vocals — Theron and friends were raising funds to keep young South Africans healthy, safe, and educated.

“There is power in all of us standing up, organizing, protesting, voting and caring for each other, and refusing to accept that this is the new normal,” Theron said, per THR. “That spirit of resistance, justice and care for each other, that’s the spirit that drives the work at CTAOP.”

“And although our focus is on the youth in Southern Africa,” Theron added, “what we’re really talking about here tonight is that all lives should be valued.”

The wedding cost? An eye-watering $50 million (about R890 million).
Theron’s party? Priceless — but focused on impact, not indulgence.

While Hollywood jetted off to toast a mega-wedding dripping in Dolce & Gabbana, Theron reminded us that star power doesn’t have to mean tone-deaf excess. Sometimes, it means telling the truth — even if it comes wrapped in a “f–k them.”

[Sources: Citizen & HuffPost]