I’m an elite event planner: I’ve survived Elton John’s diva fit, sex-crazed bosses and real-life Succession
sparked by a squabble over Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton’s RSVP. (The issue: why was he still on the guest list, despite having declined?) The party-planning duo and activist investor Peltz are now locked in competing lawsuits: he’s suing them for the $159,000 deposit he paid while the pair has fired back with a countersuit that seeks $50,000 in damages. The tussle continues. That unseemly public spat serves as a reminder that the air-kissing world of party planning isn’t as carefree and glamorous as it strains to appear.