‘Twas the Night time Earlier than the Oscars 2023—and Chanel Hosted a Celeb-Packed Dinner on the Beverly Hills Resort

On Saturday evening, Jeff Bezos, the world’s third-richest man, who’s price $128 billion {dollars}, arrived on the Beverly Hills Resort and walked into the Polo Lounge together with his girlfriend, the actress Lauren Sanchez. He presumably didn’t must journey far. In 2020, Bezos purchased the large home on Angelo Drive first owned by early Hollywood titan Jack Warner, which is claimed to be the one grand mansion from the times of early Tinseltown to stay intact a century later. Bezos paid $165 million, a document value for a home in L.A. however only a fraction of a fraction of his web price. Now, when Jeff Bezos desires to exit for cocktails on the Polo Lounge, it’s only a four-minute journey down Benedict Canyon in a daily outdated automobile. No Blue Origin area ship required. 

However final evening wasn’t an informal evening out on the oldest lodge in Beverly Hills. Chanel has claimed the eve of the Oscars 2023 as its time to throw a lavish dinner alongside British filmmaker-turned-brand-guru Charles Finch, and efficiently corralled a big slice of Hollywood to go arduous whereas L.A.’s final extravaganza loomed within the offing. When Bezos arrived, he shortly fell into dialog with Darren Aronofsky, whose movie The Whale may very effectively decide up a statuette Sunday night if its main man Brendan Fraser manages to snag greatest actor over Elvis’s Austin Butler. When Ari Emanuel got here as much as say hiya together with his spouse Sarah Staudinger, the Endeavor co-founder and the Amazon founder shortly erupted into laughs. Over what, who is aware of!

Everybody was within the grotto exterior the Polo Lounge because the wet L.A. climate helpfully subsided earlier within the night, permitting billionaire Nicolas Berggruen to talk with Harvey Keitel with out worry of extra precipitation. Michael B. Jordan, rocking a Chanel diamond pin, posed for an image with Sigourney Weaver. Netflix head honcho Ted Sarandos bisected the gang en path to the bar, passing by Idris Elba in dialog with Jason Clarke, Tessa Thompson speaking to Daniel Kaluuya, and Andrew Garfield chopping it up with Riz Ahmed. A number of legends of cinema—Hugh Grant, Oliver Stone–confirmed up proper earlier than the bell rang for dinner.

And proper as company began taking their seats, Kristen Stewart arrived concurrently Marion Cotillard and Nicole Kidman—all three in massive Chanel suits—and so they all began to chit chat after not seeing one another for some time. 

“My daughter, she turned six yesterday, however now I wish to work once more, so I’m again to it. I did the mother job,” Cotillard mentioned to Kidman.

“Love you child, so good to see you,” Kidman mentioned.