Is Jeff Bezos selling his $500 million megayacht? Here’s what we know
Size may matter, after all.
Jeff Bezos wants to unload his snazzy superyacht named Koru, according to Page Six.
Reason? The $500 million-plus, 417-foot-long, 250-foot-high vessel is becoming unsustainable to manage. The triple-masted ship was custom-built for him in 2018 in the Netherlands by Oceanco, which also constructed Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’ the Bravo Eugenia.
In 2023, when Bezos brought the recently acquired schooner back home to South Florida, he couldn’t dock it at his home in Billionaire Bunker with the other leisure ships. Koru was forced to anchor at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderale near two oil tankers.
Interested in this luxury behemoth? For such a tidy investment, you get a nine-cabin floating palace equipped with two pools, a hot tub, multiple lounges, a gym and other amenities.
You may want to change a few personalized details to make her feel more like your own, though. The wooden figurehead of a female on the prow is rumored to be modeled after Bezos’ wife, Lauren Sanchez. The 56-year-old former TV personality denied that, telling Vogue the mermaid-like sculpture is meant to depict Freyja, the Norse goddess of love, fertility, war and gold.
Once Koru becomes your property, feel free to rename it, or not. The word means “new beginnings” in Maori, the language spoken by indigenous Polynesians of mainland New Zealand, where Bezos was spotted vacationing in 2020.
Bonus: Just think of the cocktail conversation fodder of owning the 62-year-old tech titan’s ginormous toy.
Be warned. Sources told Page Six that another reason Bezos is shopping this thing around is that it’s now “too recognizable” around the globe.
