Rich People Are Tacky

The amateur video that shows the $2.1 million birthday party ex-Tyco CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski threw for his wife's 40th birthday, using Tyco money, not personal money, tells everyone something very clear: Some rich people are very tacky. Though this birthday was held in ~~Rome~~ Sardinia, apaprently the thing to do is recreate a Caesars Palace like atmosphere with men in gladiator wear and women in togas. Gothamist was going to say it seemed pretty gay, since it sort of looks like, from the Daily News's coverage, that some of the men were naked, but apparently they are wearing Speedos, which is gay in a Chippendales-way, not to mention the "cake shaped like a woman with exploding breasts," so we'll stick with tacky. One can only hope that jurors find Kozlowski not only guilty of "bilking Tyco's loan program of $170 million and swindling $430 million by selling artificially inflated Tyco stock" but of bad taste as well.

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By Jen Chung in News on October 29, 2003 7:48 AM

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i love quicktime above all the

I hate realvideo and windows media. Nothing makes me happier than scrubbing through QuickTime. And I'm not Phil Schiller blind-posting. It's twue!

lukas

you know what? my new policy: i don't watch things in real video. i don't care if it's the first steps of my future first-born, the video will of a wealthy aunt, or the hilarity of toga-gay, my new philosophy is that nothing is worth downloading realplayer for.

jenny

how could you forget to mention the David sculpture? this is either tacky or someone had too much time to think of this.

"An ice sculpture of the statue of David, his rear visible but his vodka-spewing penis not quite in view."

sera

Oh my! Fellini couldn't have done it better!

fred

The Smoking Gun has a post of the memo that Kozlowski sent to the party planners. I guess it was tacky from the beginning.

-fred

Todd W.

Here're video excerpts from NY Times.

The defense described the video as "prejudicial." Isn't that the point of showing the jury evidence?

sera

What is the link to the video?

Maureen

Just another case of the CEO trying to impress the young blonde wife. Seriously, if these guys stayed married to the oldsters and kept mistresses a lot of this corporate stealig would just end. Oh, but his dance style. How could she resist?

Jen

I don't know, but I wonder if the actors put that on their resume. "Was semi-naked at disgraced CEO's wife's 40th birthday."

Don

Actually, the party was held in Sardinia, which only made it even more expensive, given all the yacht rentals, etc etc etc. What I want to know is where all the "actors" came from. How do you hire people like that?