On Wednesday, other activists launched a float down the Grand Canal featuring a mannequin of Bezos clinging onto an Amazon box, his fists full of fake dollars. The British publicity firm that announced the stunt said it wasn’t a protest of the wedding “but against unchecked wealth, media control, and the growing privatisation of public spaces.”

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez have arrived in Venice, Italy, ahead of their star-studded wedding. Bezos waved from the water taxi as he and Sanchez arrived Wednesday at the dock of