The Breakfast Club - Jeff Bezos to purchase Vogue? + a historic $10M birkin bag sale

Episode Date: July 10, 2025

Loren talks Lauren Sánchez, Vogue, and Bezos’ extravagant wedding gift. And the OG Birkin bag is auctioned off at an incredible price to a collector in Japan.YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an iHeart podcast. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody. You hear that exclusive? You know she don't lie about that, right? Lauren came in hot. Hey, y'all, what's up? It's Lauren LaRosa. And this is The Latest with Lauren LaRosa, your daily dig on all things,

pop culture, entertainment news, the exclusives. And y'all know we get into those conversations that shake the room, baby. Now today we're gonna be talking about some things that so exciting to me. I love talking about fashion. It is one of my favorite things. I was gonna say favoritest.

Y'all know I like to make up words. If you don't know, welcome. I love to make up words. I'm horrible at remembering how to pronounce people's names and I'm a bad speller, but we are here. Okay. It's gotten me to 33 years. We are good. If I'm checking in behind the scenes at the grind, I'm feeling great. I am feeling great. I have no complaints. I am. Yeah, like I'm, that's it. I'm just feeling good. It feels good to just be like, I have no complaints. I'm good.

The family's good. Everything is good. So, low riders, let's get on into the latest because listen, we got some fashion things to discuss. Now, first of all, we talked a bit about Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, right? We talked about their amazing wedding that went down in Venice.

And we talked about how, you know, because Jeff Bezos gets a lot of pushback because people, you know, there's, you know, people who feel like he should be paying more taxes. There's people who feel like he should be paying his employees at Amazon more. There's people that feel a ton of things when it comes to Jeff Bezos.

But one of the things that people cannot tell you is that this man is not rich. This man is filthy rich, loaded. If you had to hear me say that to know that, I don't know where you have been, but I saw a headline and was reading a story the other day and I'm like, man, this he is so wealthy. Like how do you get that wealthy? Like how? So there's been reports and I pay attention to Stylecaster

a lot. Stylecaster is one of the fashion outlets that I watch for fashion news and updates and things of that nature. Stylecaster and a few other outlets, including Daily Mail and others, are reporting that Jeff Bezos is reportedly looking into buying Vogue and that he's looking into it as a wedding gift for Lauren Sanchez, his new wife.

Let me tell y'all something, okay? Lauren Sanchez has a background as a journalist. When I first moved to LA, I remember she was working for, I don't even remember what the local was. Oh, it was, she was the cohost of Fox's Good Day LA. And I didn't know her like, you know, like, I didn't know a ton about her, but I just used to see her because I would be doing carpets and just different things in LA,

but she's an Emmy award-winning journalist and former news anchor. She actually spent six years as that co-host at Fox's Good Day LA. And then people like to talk about the fact that she also has a pilot's license. According to reports, Daily Mail was actually told by a source that the

rumor that Jeff is going to buy Condé Nast, which is the parent company that owns Vogue, is all anyone is talking about in the fashion industry and inside of Vogue. And the source told added to that while telling Daily Mail that Lauren Sanchez is such an unlikely cover star and the word is that she landed the July issue of Vogue, which is where she, you know, she did her, she did a whole wedding spread in Vogue. When we were talking about her wedding on one of the previous episodes that I did here on the latest with Lauren LaRosa, make sure you go and check out that episode where we talked briefly about Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez's wedding.

I was actually, I used her Vogue feature to develop my report that I did. They did a whole spread on her from the fact that her dress was custom made by Dolce and Gabbana and you know, they went into the her love story and the story of you know, her background and there was like a full photo shoot. It was it was listen, okay. And at the time when I'm reading through this Vogue cover, I didn't think much of it. I think it was unnormal. There are look, the source

is telling Daily Mail that she's such an unlikely Vogue cover star. But for me, it made sense because Jeff Bezos is wedding was the biggest thing that happened that weekend, the weekend that they got married. I mean, every celebrity, Oprah, all of the Kardashian genders, Tom Brady, Orlando Bloom, Leonardo DiCaprio, everybody was at, some of the Trump family, everybody was at this wedding. So to feature the bride of the wedding, and it's Jeff Bezos, like Like within his last, I would say, I feel like this started happening,

that this shift started happening in a pandemic where people have began to make the billionaires the new celebrity, like the Jeff Bezos, the Mark Zuckerbergs. People weren't interested in their lives and what they're doing and who they're marrying and you know, all those things. Jeff Bezos, I would say a lot more than like a Mark Zuckerberg and others,

but yes, so I didn't think much of it when I was reading this article to prepare for our report here for the latest with Lauren LaRosa, but basically this source is saying the reason why that happened, not only was this wedding the hot wedding to talk about, but she may be about to own and be leading Condé Nast, which Vogue is under Condé Nast. Now, I also talked to you guys here on the podcast about Anna Wintour, you know, who who editor in chief of Vogue for decades. It's been decades that Anna Wintour has been synonymous with the Vogue brand, has decided to step down and do some other things at Condé Nast. But, you know, Stalkaster is reporting that Anna Wintour

is actually said to be directly involved with the possible sale. The source says, Anna is said to be the one brokering the deal. So that's why Lauren was put on the cover. Anna has equity in the business. So she has a lot to gain from the sale. Now listen, this might sound strange,

but even Jeff Bezos, he is no stranger to the publishing businesses either. In 2013 he bought the Washington Post and that was a big deal because for a long time there was a there was this huge family the Graham family I think it was like four or five generations and it was four generations of ownership at the time that Jeff Bezos got in and purchased the Washington Post so So it was such a big deal. And people just care about when billionaires

do things like that. Look, I don't know. I think it's kind of crazy to receive Vogue and Conde Nast, you know, and then the brands under Conde Nast, which are, I mean, are huge media and publishing brands as a wedding present. But baby, when I tell y'all, Lauren Sanchez, if this is true, if this report is true,

and again, I wouldn't be, it wouldn't be strange for a Jeff Bezos to purchase a Condé Nast, because there's always been something synonymous with billionaires and them wanting to, because they understand the power of media and how that controls so much from stocks to culture to business to everything, right?

Listen, I don't not believe it, but I haven't confirmed it. Lauren Tanches, I'm telling you right now, sister girl, for all of your fellow journalist girls out here, we need a book, okay? We need the book on how to navigate the sources and how to navigate, you know, to the wedding rings because when I tell y'all she, she has her pilot's license and baby girl landed this plane. She did that. Um, and I'm not just talking about the fact that he is rich. I'm

just talking about everything. Like her wildest dream. I mean, I guess this has to do with him being rich, but any of her wildest dreams have now been able to become true because she met him and fell in love with him. And I'm not saying that she's just with him for the money because that has been a conversation around them. But I think that conversation isn't loud and it doesn't last long because if you look at them

together, you can tell that they're happy from the outside looking in as much as we can anyway. But Jeff Bezos and her, every time they're together, they seem like they're having a good time. It seems like the people that are with them enjoyed them. I remember there was a conversations about like Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian hanging out with them and doing dinner with them and like they seem like a good time. I'm not gonna lie to you guys. It seemed like a great time and it seems like they have a lot of fun and whatever their own their vacations

even though their vacations get scrutinized because of the amount of money they spend, you know, in this $500 million wedding, seems like Jeff Bezos is in good hands and that she's actually there for the man and not the money, but the money ain't hurting, as we see. Now in other fashion news, there are current reports that Jane Birkin's original Hermes bag

is going to sell for $10 million. Now y'all are probably like, why do I care about this Birkin bag selling for this amount of money? And why is it selling for this amount of money? There are Birkin bags everywhere, even though they do appreciate in value. But this Birkin bag is actually the first ever Birkin

to have been created by Hermes. The bag was designed for the British actor and singer Jane Birkin bag is actually the first ever Birkin to have been created by Hermes. The bag was designed for the British actor and singer Jane Birkin, and it was used by her almost every day from 1985 to 1994 before it became the ultimate symbol of luxury. So this was before, like when she was wearing the bag, this was before the bag was like, oh my God, the Birkin bag. So this week, the bag was sold by auction house Sotheby's

in an online sale of notable luxury fashion, including designs by Alexander McQueen and Christian Dior. The auction house actually declined to provide an estimate of the original Birkin bag to CNN ahead of the sale. So CNN is doing its report. And basically what happens is normally when an auction house, like, you know there's a ton of these big auction houses that do like big celeb memorabilia right and when these

auction houses receive these pieces normally what they'll do is is they'll cede information out to media and say hey we're about to be selling this you know the original Birkin bag Jane Birkin word every single day from this time to this time and we're going to auction it for a starting auction price of this. They might not give you the exact number that they wanted to hit or where to exactly start but they get you closer in a range because they want people to begin to talk about it. So connoisseurs, fashion collectors, archivists of these things can go out and wait for it to hit the auction and then run and come to buy it. But CNN is reporting they didn't even wanna drop the number that it was gonna estimate to sell at ahead of the sale.

But there was an advanced bidding that went crazy, that was breaking records. And this advanced bidding happened during a live stream of the sale. Now, during the live stream of the sale from reports, you could literally hear people gasping as the bidding went higher and higher and higher and only lasted for 10 minutes. It was between nine collectors and ultimately ended in a victory for a private collector from Japan. Man, there is so

much money out here to be had. So much good fashion out here to be had, so much good marriages out here to be had. Y'all just pray for me, okay? Pray for your girl, because I need a mixture of all of the things. I need a mixture of great fashion. You know, I am working really hard every day to acquire my wealth so that my family is good, and I pray that on my husband as well,

my husband to be, once we get there. Y'all know what I mean? I'll break that story here once that happens. But I don't know. There's just a lot out here to be done and a lot out of here to be accomplished. When I see stories like this, where we're talking about,

Elan's gonna say Elan, woo, wrong billionaire. When we talk about a Jeff Bezos being able to even be in conversation or just thought to buy a Conde Nast or someone buying the original Birkin bag to even be in conversation or just thought to buy a Conde Nast or, you know, someone buying the original Birkin bag for $10 million, 8.6 million pounds, $10 million. I'm like, wow, I got a long way to go, but I'm going, I'm on my way.

So we'll keep up to date with, you know, if that sale of Condé Nast is a thing because if it is first of all it'll be everywhere if that happens the story will be everywhere but if it does happen I would be very interested to see what Lauren Sanchez does with the brand because like I told you guys she's worked at some outlets I even believe she was at one of the like entertainment outlets too in LA I believe it was like an ET or extra. Let me verify that one second. Yes, Lauren Sanchez was that extra as well too. Yep. So it'll be interesting because she does have the background and she has is there and right now she is

a part of what we are considering pop culture. We're here talking about her. So we'll keep you guys posted and I will see you in my next episode. I love it when we do these fashion episodes because that is such a passion of mine. If y'all can't hear it in my voice. And you guys love the episode we did about Anna Wintour. And I was surprised. Like I had people hitting me up about that episode and I'm like, oh, I didn't even, you know,

a lot of times people aren't as invested in things as you think they are. But I think when you talk about legacy names like in a winter or a vogue or, you know, even Birkin bags, Birkin bags have become such a big thing of the culture. People don't realize and that's why I love pop culture so much that fashion, music, all of these things, right, They intertwine so much. It's like synonymous. Like the Birkin bag is such a big thing

because everyone's rapping about it right now. Everyone's talking about it. All of the, you know, the music girlies are wearing the Birkin bags and the fashion girlies, right? Vogue is such a big deal because of course, Vogue talks about and features everybody, but it's been around forever. It's a staple brand.

So everything's intertwined. And that's my favorite part of pop culture and getting to do and explore and being an enthusiast of this category because you never know where the news may take us. I appreciate you guys so much, low riders. At the end of the day, there's always so much to talk about and you guys could be anywhere with me to talk about it.

Even $10 million in a Birkin bag. You know, there's so many, there's so, look, there's only but so many millions are right here with me to talk about it. Even $10 million in a Birkin bag. You know, there's so many, there's so look, there's only but so many millions are right here with me. We are talking about them and y'all could be anywhere. So I appreciate you guys. I will see you in my next episode. This is an iHeart Podcast.