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Meet Pia Whitesell, the model who married Lauren Sánchez’s ex: the Aussie celeb’s husband is Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s millionaire agent Patrick Whitesell, who lost his first wife to Jeff Bezos

Australian model and actress Pia Whitesell is married to Lauren Sánchez’s ex Patrick Whitesell. Photo: @pia/Instagram
Australian model and actress Pia Whitesell is married to Lauren Sánchez’s ex Patrick Whitesell. Photo: @pia/Instagram

  • Chilean beauty Pia Whitesell moved to Australia as a child and made a name for herself first as a teen model, then as an actress on soap Home & Away – and she was once married to a famous footballer
  • Worth US$450 million, Patrick Whitesell shares two children with Bezos’ fiancée Sánchez, but found love again with Pia, and has been spoiling her rotten with Chanel bags and luxe holidays

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and TV anchor Lauren Sánchez generated the celebrity scandal of the year in 2019 when they revealed to have run off together. But who was the man Sánchez left in the dust?

Sánchez’s husband and baby daddy, and Bezos’ close friend, is multimillionaire executive Patrick Whitesell – who made the mistake of introducing Bezos and Sánchez in the first place. Ouch.

Patrick Whitesell and his then-wife Lauren Sánchez were good friends with Jeff Bezos. Photo: @osaremengist/Instagram
Patrick Whitesell and his then-wife Lauren Sánchez were good friends with Jeff Bezos. Photo: @osaremengist/Instagram
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Things got worse when the National Enquirer published details of raunchy texts between Bezos and Sánchez and leaked details of their secret trysts. So those close to Whitesell – who runs Hollywood talent agency William Morris Endeavour – will no doubt have been overjoyed for the 58-year-old when he found love again with model and actress Pia Miller just a year after the uproar.

So who is the woman who managed to persuade Whitesell to walk down the aisle a second time in 2020? Here’s what you need to know about Pia Miller, now Pia Whitesell.

Pia Whitesell was born in Chile

Pia Whitesell (centre) with her brother and sister, who moved from Chile to Australia in the late 1980s. Photo: @pia/Instagram
Pia Whitesell (centre) with her brother and sister, who moved from Chile to Australia in the late 1980s. Photo: @pia/Instagram

Born Pia Loyola Blanco in Chile in 1983, Whitesell is the youngest of three children born to fashion designer Angélica Blanco.

Pia Whitesell with her mum, Angélica Blanco. Photo: @pia/Instagram
Pia Whitesell with her mum, Angélica Blanco. Photo: @pia/Instagram

The four of them moved to Melbourne, Australia, when Pia was four years old to start a new life away from her estranged father, according to the Herald Sun.

She started out as a model …

Pia Whitesell did not think she could be a model when she was younger. Photo: @pia/Instagram
Pia Whitesell did not think she could be a model when she was younger. Photo: @pia/Instagram