Lauren Sanchez arrives at the 2024 Met Gala WITHOUT billionaire fiance Jeff Bezos – as she flaunts her incredible figure in a low-cut ‘shattered glass’ gown and sports a huge NEW diamond on that finger

Lauren Sanchez may have risen to fame thanks to her high-profile relationship with Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, but on Monday night she proved she can more than hold her own in the spotlight when she made a stunning solo arrival at the 2024 Met Gala. .

The former TV presenter, 54, stepped onto the red carpet without her fiancé on her arm and opted to appear solo at the glittering gala, where she put on an incredible show in a custom-made Oscar de la Renta gown.

But while the dress itself was indeed eye-catching, even more breathtaking was the enormous new diamond Lauren wore on her wedding finger, a huge pear-shaped design that dwarfed even the giant stone that Bezos proposed with in 2023. .

It’s unclear whether Lauren simply borrowed the stunning jewel for the event – ​​or if her fiancé chose an upgraded design – but she opted to let it shine, largely without any other accessories save for another diamond ring on her pinky and and a pair of diamond earrings hanging from her lobes.

Meanwhile, her dress still managed to attract a lot of attention.

The strapless dress, designed to look like ‘shattered glass’, perfectly accentuated Lauren’s enviable figure, with the voluminous skirt flowing around her as she walked up the iconic steps of the Metropolitan Museum and entered the event.

While the top of the dress was relatively simple, featuring a black bustier with a strapless sweetheart neckline, the skirt was covered in intricate floral patterns that looked a lot like a garden mosaic – in keeping with this year’s dress code, The Garden of Time. .

The dress featured several silver panels to create the illusion of “broken glass,” Lauren says Fashion that she wanted to distance herself from her typical ‘extremely sexy, low-cut’ look.

According to Lauren, she was sent several options from designers Fernando Garcia and Laura Kim, all of which were much more in line with her normal style.

“If you saw them you would say, ‘Oh, that’s very Lauren,’ extremely sexy, low-cut,” she told Vogue.

“I say, ‘No, I think I’ll try something else.'”

Although Bezos didn’t walk the carpet with his future wife, he did join her at the top of the Met Museum’s iconic steps for a quick photo before they entered the event.

On Sunday, the couple attended a pre-Met Gala event together, where they looked every bit the glamorous couple as they mingled with their fellow celebrities.

Lauren and fiancé Jeff Bezos, 60, attended the Monse Maison Pre-Met Cocktail Celebration, held at La Mercerie in New York City on Sunday evening.

The award-winning journalist wore a striking black, sheer, figure-hugging dress to the event, despite the fact that Vogue’s editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is reportedly not fond of the ensembles she typically wears.

DailyMail.com reported last week that the expectant Mrs. Bezos could only attend the $350,000-per-table ball if the Vogue editor had a say in what she wears.

An insider recently told Anna’s biographer Amy Odell that the famously demanding editor knows Lauren has “bad taste” and would like to personally help her choose a dress.

Lauren is notorious for wearing skin-tight and skin-bearing ensembles that leave little to the imagination.

“Anna is not always personally involved in what guests wear,” the author wrote, adding that she worked with Lauren to choose between custom designs from the classically stylish Oscar de la Renta and two other as-yet-unnamed designers.

Anna Wintour is apparently not alone in her criticism of the way Lauren dresses, as presenter Megyn Kelly recently said she ‘looked like a whore’ in Milan and a few weeks ago restaurateur Keith McNally unleashed a rant about her outfit choices.

Balthazar’s owner posted a seemingly unprovoked series of photos of the couple on April 15, along with the caption: “Does anyone else find Jeff Bezos’ new wife – Lauren Sanchez – ABSOLUTELY disgusting?”

‘What an ugly and damned smug looking bunch they make. Is this what having $1 trillion does to people?”

On Sunday, McNally called out people who spoke in Sanchez’s defense, including her famous friends.

“While 90 percent of the 3,000 comments I received on my Sanchez post were light-hearted and funny — and along the lines of the post — the comments I received from the wives of other billionaires were not funny and weird,” McNally said.

“The funniest one was from comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s wife (whom I adore) – Jessica Seinfeld. Seinfeld must have been embarrassed by her comment because she quickly deleted it.”

‘Here’s part of it: “THIS POST IS A REFLECTION OF YOUR REJECTED, MISCELLANEOUS AND HORRIBLE SPIRIT. LAUREN HAS TWICE THE CHARACTER YOU HAVE.”’

‘Twisted, pathetic and horrible.’ The f****r must have read my memoirs,” he said.