If the tabloids are to be trusted, the retail magnate Sir Philip Green spent £6.5m on his 60th birthday party in 2012, flying out more than a hundred friends and celebrities (among them Naomi Campbell, Leonardo DiCaprio, Simon Cowell — and they were just the Cs), 155 staff and a security team trained by the Israeli secret service, for a four-day bash at the Rosewood Mayakoba hotel on Mexico’s Caribbean coast. Stevie Wonder came to sing “Happy Birthday”; caviar and Kobe beef were washed down with Puligny-Montrachet La Garenne 2009 and 2001 Cos d’Estournel; the fireworks alone cost £150,000. And a “full service event management” company called Banana Split handled the logistics, just as it had when he turned 50 and 55 with parties in Cyprus and the Maldives.
根據八卦小報的訊息，零售業巨擎菲力普•葛林爵士(Sir Philip Green)2012年竟爲自己的60歲壽誕花費了650萬英鎊巨資——包括邀請100多位好友與名流（其中包括了納奧米•坎貝兒(Naomi Campbell)、狄卡皮歐(Leonardo DiCaprio)、西蒙•考威爾(Simon Cowell)——這些還只是字母C打頭的大腕）、155名服務人員以及由以色列特工訓練的安保小組在內的大隊人馬不遠萬里飛赴墨西哥加勒比沿岸的Rosewood Mayakoba豪華酒店。歌星史蒂維•旺德(Stevie Wonder)親赴現場獻上《生日快樂》歌，魚子醬與神戶牛肉就著普里尼-蒙哈榭村(Puligny-Montrachet)加雷納酒莊(La Garenne)出產的2009年份酒與愛士圖爾酒莊(Château Cos d’Estournel)出產的2001年份美酒，其中光煙火一項就花了15萬英鎊。一家名爲Banana Split的全方位服務公司仍然負責後勤保障事宜——葛林爵士50歲壽誕（在島國塞普勒斯舉辦）與55歲壽誕（在馬爾地夫舉行）均由Banana Split公司操辦。