Protester Tackled to the Ground After Breaking Through Met Gala Entrance

A protester breached the entrance to the Met Gala on Monday night before being tackled by security, briefly rattling the star-studded event but not making it to the carpet.

There had been reports ahead of the event that protests were expected, given the gala’s lead sponsorship by Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez Bezos. Opposition to the Bezos’s began almost immediately after they were announced as financial sponsors in February, and the New York Times reported that an anti-Bezos campaign had erupted on city streets, in subways and online in the weeks leading up to the event, with social media users dubbing it the “Amazon Prime Gala” or “Bezos Ball.” The carpet continued without further incident.

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The disruption came as some of fashion’s biggest names made their way up the museum’s famed steps, including co-chairs Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams and Anna Wintour. This year’s theme is “Fashion Is Art,” with the accompanying Costume Institute exhibition, curated by Andrew Bolton, running May 10 through Jan. 10, 2027. Additional support for the gala is provided by Saint Laurent and Conde Nast.

The host committee is led by Anthony Vaccarello and Zoe Kravitz and includes Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, Gwendoline Christie, Alex Consani, Misty Copeland, Elizabeth Debicki, Lena Dunham, Paloma Elsesser, Lisa, Sam Smith, Teyana Taylor, Lauren Wasser, Anna Weyant, A’ja Wilson and Yseult. Chloe Malle, newly installed head of editorial content at Vogue U.S., also joins the committee.

The Met Gala, fashion’s most high-profile annual fundraiser, benefits the Costume Institute and draws a cross-section of entertainment, sports, music and fashion’s biggest names each year to the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.