Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos jetted into Mallorca on Monday to see his new luxury yacht which is moored in the Bay of Palma. The 500 million dollar vessel Koru was anchored off the coast of Son Caliu this afternoon. Bezos and his girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez, flew to the island by private jet and then boarded a helicopter which took them out to the yacht.
According to the Daily Mail, Bezos was seen kissing his girlfriend on deck shortly after their arrival. With a net worth of US$125 billion as of April 2023, Bezos is the third-wealthiest person in the world and was the wealthiest from 2017 to 2021, according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes.
Koru is a luxury custom superyacht. The vessel was built in the Netherlands by Oceanco starting in 2021, and delivered in April 2023. It is a three-masted sailing yacht 127 meters (417 ft) long and reported to have cost $500 million or more. When commissioned, the yacht was the second-largest sailing yacht in the world, after Andrey Melnichenko's Sailing Yacht A.
In 2022, Rotterdam announced that the city's historic De Hef bridge would be partially dismantled, temporarily, to allow the yacht to pass through. This move was very controversial because the bridge is a Dutch national monument owing to its long history.