Meet Lauren Sánchez, Jeff Bezos’ glamorous girlfriend – the TV anchor-turned-helicopter pilot once starred in Fight Club and even bagged an Emmy award for her reporting
- Sánchez, who was featured in People’s ‘50 Most Beautiful’ issue in 2010, once hosted So You Think You Can Dance and worked for entertainment news channel Extra
- The billionaire Amazon founder’s partner is passionate about flying and even launched her own aerial filming company, Black Ops Aviation, in 2016
Jeff Bezos may be among the richest and perhaps most polarising multibillionaires in the world, but one person loves him dearly … his long-time partner Lauren Sánchez.
Her early life and education
Sánchez was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico to flight instructor and mechanic Ray Sánchez and Eleanor Sánchez, who also has a pilot’s license. She went on to follow in her parents footsteps, becoming a qualified helicopter pilot and later even launching her own aerial filming company, Black Ops Aviation, the first female-owned aerial film and production company.
Sánchez also has two siblings – a brother named Michael and a sister named Elena. The TV-anchor-turned-entrepreneur always showed a keen interest in communications and media. At the El Camino College in Torrance, California, she even made it to the dean’s list and wrote for the university newspaper The Warwhoop, according to IMDB. She then attended the University of Southern California, where she majored in communications, setting her off into the media world.
Rising up the ranks in TV
Sánchez began her career as a desk assistant at KCOP-TV in LA. In a matter of a few years, she became a TV anchor and reporter for KTVK-TV in Phoenix, and then later joined Extra – a move that catapulted her to national television. A sports-lover by her own admission, she then went on to work for Fox Sports Net where she was nominated for an Emmy award for her work with sports magazine Going Deep. In 1999, she made it back to KCOP-TV as the anchor for their UPN 13 News.