yachts often have to return to shipyards for improvements and repairs, which would have required even more bridge dismantling. The 417-foot superyacht cost Bezos an estimated half-a-billion ...

City officials told reporters in February that Rotterdam had agreed to briefly dismantle the bridge to allow Mr. Bezos’ yacht to go through. But after backlash, they walked back that statement ...

The Amazon founder’s 417-foot-long vessel reportedly cost around $500 million to build and costs millions more in upkeep ...

Mr. Bezos did not respond to a ProPublica ... t just this particular billionaire and this particular yacht. It was this particular bridge. To outsiders, the Hef looks like an ungainly industrial ...

His yacht stirred up some drama in the Netherlands when people found out a historic bridge might be taken apart just to let ...

Y721 became the center of controversy in February after Oceanco requested that the city of Rotterdam dismantle part of a historic bridge to allow Bezos’s yacht to pass through. The bridge was in ...

While Bezos had pledged to cover the costs incurred in dismantling and rebuilding the bridge, the petition organizer ... with the delivery of the super yacht. Newsweek has contacted Amazon ...

But Bezos and Oceanco have pledged to pay for the bridge’s temporary dismantling. Oceanco claims that taking out a section of the bridge is the only way to get the yacht out to sea. As of ...

Jeff Bezos’s yacht was quietly towed out of a Dutch shipyard ... asked the city of Rotterdam to dismantle a historic bridge to let it through. The yachting firm, Oceanco, eventually withdrew ...

but Bezos' yacht is adorned with a female bust, which people have been speculating is modeled off of Sanchez. The Dutch, by the way, ended up not dismantling the old bridge for the sake of Bezos ...

Bezos’ mega boat sparked controversy last year after it was reported that Dutch officials would have to dismantle the historic Koningshaven Bridge because the yacht wouldn’t be able to pass ...