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Billionaires These Two Things Happened On The Same Week. Lauren Sánchez Bezos wore Versace to the Met. Jeff Bezos wore a tuxedo. Amazon warehouse workers in the UK, Germany, and France staged coordinated walkouts over pay and conditions. The Met Gala theme was "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style." Fashion journalists noted the tailoring. Labour journalists noted the walkouts. These are different publications. By Forbes Watcher , Satirz Billionaires Desk  |  May 11, 2026 NEW YORK/LONDON/FRANKFURT — On the first Monday of May, Jeff Bezos and his fiancée Lauren Sánchez Bezos attended the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual Costume Institute Gala — an event whose tickets start at $75,000 per person, whose dress code is interpreted by the world's most photographed humans, and whose red carpet generates more international media coverage than most natural disasters and several actual wars. On the same week, Amazon workers in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France staged coord...

  Billionaires Tesla paid Musk $158 billion in 2025 compensation — the largest executive pay package ever recorded. SpaceX is going public in June at a $1.75 trillion valuation. The dual-class share structure means public investors will own shares but not votes. This is called investing. It used to be called something else. By Forbes Watcher   |  May 11, 2026  |  Billionaires SOMEWHERE ABOVE THE LAW — Tesla Inc. has disclosed that Elon Musk received $158 billion in total compensation for 2025 — a figure so large that financial journalists needed a new sentence structure to write it. For context: $158 billion is more than the GDP of 130 countries, more than NASA's entire budget for the next 40 years, and roughly 3.5 times what the US spent on food stamps last year. Tesla shareholders approved it. Tesla shareholders have since moved on to approving SpaceX. SpaceX is going public in June under the internal codename "Project Apex" — a name that sounds like a su...