Jeff Bezos ‘wants to sell’ $500m superyacht Koru as it’s ‘too huge’
The Koru superyacht anchored off the coast of St. Lucia. Image courtesy of Conmat13 via Wikimedia Jeff Bezos is reportedly looking to sell his superyacht, Koru, only a few years after it entered service.
The celebrity gossip site Page Six, a brand of the American newspaper New York Post, cites ‘a source’ who claims Bezos wants to sell the vessel as it’s “just too huge to manage.”
The 126-metre sailing yacht, built by Dutch shipbuilder Oceanco, is among the largest of its kind in the world. Constructed largely out of public view and completed within two years, it quickly became tied to the Amazon founder’s public image. It was estimated to cost around $500m to build.
The name Koru, taken from a Māori word for a spiral or loop, symbolises renewal and new beginnings.
However, Page Six suggests Bezos has grown uncomfortable with how easy the yacht is to identify. Its profile is distinctive, not least because of the figurehead on the bow: a wooden sculpture representing a Norse goddess that also happens to resemble his wife, Lauren Sánchez.
Estimates place annual maintenance on Koru in the tens of millions, particularly when combined with its 75m support vessel, Abeona, built by Damen, which features a helipad, hangar and a massive deck space for tenders and toys, plus space for 37 crew members. Together, the pair of ships require a crew of dozens and careful coordination.
Koru‘s size has repeatedly limited where it can go. In 2023, it was unable to dock with other private yachts in Florida’s Port Everglades, where it instead sat anchored alongside commercial shipping vessels.
Access to Monaco during the Grand Prix was reportedly refused for similar reasons. During Bezos and Sánchez’s wedding celebrations in Venice in 2025, the yacht stayed well away from the lagoon because it could not approach the city’s main harbour.
Even its delivery drew attention. Threats of a mass-egging broke out after rumours circulated that Oceanco was planning to temporarily dismantle a historic bridge, known as De Hef, to allow the yacht, which has a trio of 70-metre masts, to pass. The yacht managed to find another route to take, stealing away in the dead of night to avoid attention.
Later that year, Oceanco said it had ‘deep regrets’ after it was issued a penalty order of €150,000 for using illicit Myanmar ‘blood’ teak on Koru‘s deck.
For all this, Koru has been used extensively. It has hosted gatherings with starry guests including Kim Kardashian, Leonardo DiCaprio, Katy Perry and Oprah Winfrey, and has travelled to destinations such as Saint-Tropez, Capri and Sardinia. It has also been the setting for personal moments, including the couple’s engagement celebrations.
There has been no formal confirmation that the yacht is on the market, and representatives for Bezos have not commented publicly.
Hello, I love your newsletter. However, I would like you to have a look at the piece on Koru. You are repeating the absolute nonsense that is this sentence: “Koru‘s size has repeatedly limited where it can go. In 2023, it was unable to dock in the Florida Everglades, where it instead sat anchored alongside commercial shipping vessels.”
No one can dock in the Florida Everglades; it’s a shallow slow moving river that is only inches deep. There are a few inner canals, but not accessible to yachts of any kind.
What happened is that Koru docked at Port Everglades (nothing to do with the Florida Everglades) in Fort Lauderdale due in part to its size but also for security reasons. It could have docked across the Intracoastal at the Pier Sixty Six Marina.
Cheers.