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.
根据八卦小报的消息，零售业巨擎菲利普•格林爵士(Sir Philip Green)2012年竟为自己的60岁寿诞花费了650万英镑巨资——包括邀请100多位好友与名流（其中包括了纳奥米•坎贝尔(Naomi Campbell)、迪卡普里奥(Leonardo DiCaprio)、西蒙•考威尔(Simon Cowell)——这些还只是字母C打头的大腕）、155名服务人员以及由以色列特工训练的安保小组在内的大队人马不远万里飞赴墨西哥加勒比沿岸的Rosewood Mayakoba豪华酒店。歌星史蒂维•旺德(Stevie Wonder)亲赴现场献上《生日快乐》歌，鱼子酱与神户牛肉就着普里尼-蒙哈榭村(Puligny-Montrachet)加雷纳酒庄(La Garenne)出产的2009年份酒与爱士图尔酒庄(Château Cos d’Estournel)出产的2001年份美酒，其中光烟火一项就花了15万英镑。一家名为Banana Split的全方位服务公司仍然负责后勤保障事宜——格林爵士50岁寿诞（在岛国塞浦路斯举办）与55岁寿诞（在马尔代夫举行）均由Banana Split公司操办。