Sports broadcasters, professional athletes, and talent agents! Oh my! Before her whirlwind courtship and subsequent engagement to Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sanchez was linked to a plethora of relatively successful and high-profile men working in various industries.
The story goes that while working as a lowly intern at a local Los Angeles television station, Sanchez met and first got engaged to sports broadcaster Rory Markas. Alas, the couple never made it down the aisle. A former friend of Sanchez’s claimed to Page Six that Sanchez dumped Markas after switching jobs. Sadly, in 2010 Markas was found dead in his home after suffering a heart attack. Still, Sanchez wasn’t done with men in the sports industry just yet. Following her engagement to Markas, she married and had a son with former NFL player Tony Gonzalez in 2001. Unfortunately, that relationship didn’t go the distance either. Fast forward to 2005, and Sanchez tied the knot with talent agent Patrick Whitesell. Sanchez and Whitesell went on to have a son and a daughter in 2006 and 2008, respectively.
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But that’s not all. Over the years, Sanchez has also been romantically linked to former professional footballer Anthony Miller, former Los Angeles Lakers player Derek Fisher, and actor Henry Simmons. Then, in 2016, Sanchez met Bezos (via her then-hubby Whitesell), and the rest is history.
