EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Will Princess Anne’s son quit firm run by ‘serial cheater’ Casey Wasserman, the US tycoon who slept with a string of female staff?

The search for a fair shilling has at times proven dangerous for Princess Anne’s son, Peter Phillips.

Never more so than in 2020, when, as revealed by the Mail, he appeared in two excruciating adverts on Chinese TV, drinking a glass of milk brought to him by a butler and bragging about being fed Jersey milk from the royal flock at Windsor.

But now, I can tell you, he is facing the most acute dilemma of his career, just a year after becoming head of partner acquisition at the motorsport department of the CSM Sport & Entertainment agency.

There seemed little danger of a scandal at CSM. But all that changed after the takeover by an American agency, Wasserman, headed by tycoon Casey Wasserman, who as the grandson of Lew Wasserman, ‘the last of the legendary movie moguls’, can claim to be Hollywood royalty.

But unfortunately that’s not why Casey Wasserman has sent tongues into hyperdrive in Beverly Hills.

Just weeks after celebrating his 50th birthday in June with a “Gatsby-level” party for 600 friends, including Bill Clinton and Doug Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, Wasserman was accused by numerous women of being a “serial cheater.” ‘to be the one who sleeps. with those who catch his eye at work, rewarding them with La Perla lingerie, Louboutin shoes and even Range Rovers, then dropping them without looking back.

“He could go from 100 to zero in just a few hours,” says one, while no fewer than six of his accusers allege Wasserman had an affair with one of his assistants in 2005 and 2006, when his daughter Stella was just a few months old. .

But perhaps saddest of all is the publication of an email that former private jet “cabin attendant” Jenny Chandler sent to his wife Laura in March 2021. “He and I have been together for seven years, which he lied to you about. ‘ the email said. “He fucked me in your bed.”

Chandler concluded by saying that she had repeatedly enjoyed Wasserman’s favors on his Gulfstream G550 while Laura, unaware, sat “in the back.”

Laura and Wasserman divorced later that year.

Now Wasserman has faced defections again, as singer Billie Eilish has left his agency.

Phillips, 46, refuses to say whether he will follow her to the exit. He may have noticed that Wasserman has survived turbulence before — once flying to Africa on Jeffrey Epstein’s Boeing 727, dubbed the “Lolita Express,” but otherwise remaining untouched by the sex offender.

Bomb narrowly missing the Lebanese fashion designer

His dresses have been worn by Heidi Klum, Kate Winslet and Nicole Scherzinger, but Lebanese-Italian designer Tony Ward almost didn’t make it to Paris Fashion Week due to the escalating conflict in Lebanon.

“We were almost hit by a bomb,” he tells me in his showroom in Paris. ‘I was on my way to the airport and a bomb went off 50 meters from the car. So we’re stuck here [in Europe]. We don’t know whether we’ll go back or stay here.’

Ward adds, “It’s not the first time they’ve tried to hit us, but what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”

Life is a constant disappointment, says Richard Osman

He has sold more than five million books and his novel The Thursday Murder Club is being made into a film starring Dame Helen Mirren and Sir Ben Kingsley.

But former Pointless host Richard Osman insists his career is not a series of successes.

“Life is made up of constant disappointments, setbacks and failures,” says the 53-year-old author. “If I told you every failed television show I’ve been involved in over the last thirty years, you’d have to replace your printer cartridge.”

Osman adds: ‘I’m happy to say that my daily life is a constant failure: poor cooking and not being able to properly replace a light bulb. If you’re worried that I don’t have enough failures in my life, I can put those worries to rest.”

Elton is off the road, but in the money

Sir Elton John, who retired from touring last year, joked this week that “there’s not much left of me” after his various surgical operations and health problems.

But his ability to make money remains as great as ever.

I hear the pop star, 77, and his husband David Furnish, 61, enjoyed a £12million payout after fortunes in one of their investment companies enjoyed a pleasant revival.

The pair withdrew the money from Tekcor Ltd, which manages a share portfolio that at one point exceeded £164 million in the 12 months to April this year.

According to newly published figures, the company sold off a significant chunk of its shares, making a profit of more than £3.5 million along the way.

David, the company’s director, and Sir Elton have significant control over the company. As a result, the company’s accounts state: ‘During the year the director and his spouse made withdrawals totaling £12,062,670.’

Let Gwynnie eat cake

Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow is more interested in style than Hollywood these days, so what better place to celebrate her birthday than in the French capital during Paris Fashion Week?

The actress, whose lifestyle company Goop sells designer clothes, shared this photo online of her posing at a local brasserie with a tiered birthday cake.

“Cinquante-deux,” she says, referring to her 52nd birthday.

The star has said reaching her 50s was “amazing,” despite worrying about previous milestones: “When I turned 40. . . It really drove me crazy.’

Sue remembers the days with Sir Paul

Royle Family star Sue Johnston fondly remembers the one who got away: Sir Paul McCartney. The pair were close as teenagers in the early days of The Cavern Club in Liverpool. “Paul and I were good friends, but we were always just friends,” says the 80-year-old actress. “But he always took me home. He often came to our house. It was fun and a nice friendship, but then I fell for the drummer from the Swinging Blue Jeans and that was that.”

She adds: ‘The girls in our street always asked me for his cigarette butts when he was away and I thought maybe I should sell them, but I didn’t.’

Rolling with the punches is Jess’ dream come true

Jessica Raine, best known as nurse Jenny Lee in the first three series of Call the Midwife, is enjoying the grittiness of her current role in psychological thriller The Devil’s Hour.

“Getting punched in the face was the dream because I had to learn stunts and fights and I don’t have to do that in my career,” the 42-year-old actress said during the premiere of the second series of the Prime Video drama . at the Soho Hotel in London.