Bella Hadid — a model who has attended multiple Met Galas and appeared on dozens of Vogue covers — liked an Instagram post calling out celebrities who planned to attend this year’s event while Bezos bankrolled it.
Actress Taraji P. Henson, who attended past Met Galas, publicly criticized this year’s event for the same reason.
And Mayor Zohran Mamdani — New York City’s first democratic socialist mayor, elected in a landslide in November 2025 — announced a month ago that he and his wife Rama Duwaji would skip the gala entirely.
He told Hell Gate: “I want to focus on affordability and making the most expensive city in the United States affordable.”
Translation: I’m not going to a $75,000-per-ticket party sponsored by a billionaire union-buster while New Yorkers can’t afford rent.
This broke a decades-long tradition. NYC mayors have historically attended the Met Gala as part of their role representing the city’s cultural institutions. Michael Bloomberg went. Bill de Blasio went once. Eric Adams went once.
But Mamdani is not like those mayors.
He ran on taxing millionaires to fund affordable housing. He campaigned on expanding rent control, protecting tenants, and cracking down on corporate landlords. He won because working-class New Yorkers were sick of watching billionaires get richer while they got priced out of their own city.
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