4 NFL Players and Multi Millionaires Lauren Sánchez Dated Before Falling in Love With Jeff Bezos

Lauren Sánchez is an American journalist who rose to fame as an entertainment reporter and news anchor. She has quite a successful career and enjoys her life as it goes. The mother of three had an interesting dating life before she fell for Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos.

It might have taken a few relationships, but the couple finally made their way to each other. Bezos and Sánchez started dating in 2019 after they divorced their respective partners.

When the billionaire popped the big question in 2023, the entertainment correspondent said yes without missing a beat. Bezos proposed to her at Cannes with a $2.5 million pink engagement ring.

Before they officially get hitched, let’s look back at the reporter’s dating history (from NFL players to a Hollywood hotshot), as she was reportedly engaged thrice and married once.

Rory Markas

Lauren Sánchez‘s first publicly known relationship had been with Rory Markas. It was from before she became famous while she was still in college. She studied at the University of Southern California. Sánchez was engaged to the Markas for some time but after she graduated, they called it quits.

Rory Markas was a sports journalist and radio broadcaster. However, he passed away at the age of 54 after suffering from a heart attack. And Sánchez moved on in her life.

Anthony Miller

Sánchez met Anthony Miller, an NFL star, at the 1996 Super Bowl in Arizona. They immediately hit it off and the duo started dating. They were in a four-year relationship and even got engaged.

However, they parted ways in 2000 and went on to accuse each other of cheating. Miller even claimed that it was the entertainment reporter who had pressured him to propose to her. In an interview with the Daily Mail in 2019, he said, “I kind of gave her [the ring] because she bugged me about getting married. She kept it. I didn’t say anything.”

After her breakup with Miller, Sánchez had an on-again and off-again relationship with Derek Fisher. As per reports, they were together “for a while”. However, they have never spoken about it.

Tony González

Though there’s not much out in the public about Lauren Sánchez and Tony González’s relationship timeline, she welcomed her first son, Nikko with the Kansas City Chiefs player in 2001. It’s unknown to us how long they were together, but after they parted ways, the two of them stayed friends and co-parented their kid amicably.

The entertainment correspondent even called Tony her ‘best friend’ in an interview with WSJ magazine. González is now married to October González, but the former NFL player’s Instagram often features his firstborn’s photos. In 2021, Sánchez with Jeff Bezos and González with his partner were spotted having a meal. They even got together to celebrate Nikko’s graduation.

Lauren Sánchez reportedly went ahead to accept another proposal. She got into a brief engagement with actor Henry Simmons.

Patrick Whitesell

Sánchez allegedly hopped into another relationship with Patrick Whitesell while still living with Simmons in their home. However, after breaking up with the actor, the helicopter pilot got hitched to the executive chairman of William Morris Endeavor (WME), an agency that represents celebs from the entertainment, fashion, and sports world.

Whitesell and Sánchez’s 2005 wedding was a star-studded affair, from Jennifer Garner and Matt Damon to other Hollywood hotshots had attended the event. The couple then welcomed their two children – a son, Evan (2006) and a daughter, Eleanor (2008). However, they got separated probably in 2017 or 2018 and announced their divorce in January 2019. Later, in 2021, Whitesell got married to an Australian model and actress, Pia Miller.

Following her divorce in 2019, Sánchez made her relationship with Jeff Bezos public. And now, the couple are much in love and engaged.