EXCLUSIVE: Nicola Peltz gets grilled on camera in fired event planners Nicole Braghin and Arianna Grijalba’s lawsuit against her “bully” father Nelson over her marriage to Brooklyn Beckham

Nicola Peltz Beckham faces a videotaped quirk in the bitter legal battle between her billionaire father and her fired wedding planners, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.

Nelson Peltz, 81, is suing Nicole Braghin and Arianna Grijalba to get back the $159,000 deposit he paid for his daughter’s star-studded April 2022 wedding to Brooklyn Beckham.

The two co-owners of Miami-based Plan Design Events filed a counterclaim alleging breach of contract, labeling Nelson a “bully” and insisting they worked hard to accommodate his family’s whims.

Nicola, 28, has argued in court that the feud has nothing to do with her, as it was her mega-investor father who hired the pair, only to dump them eight days later.

But DailyMail.com can reveal that, despite her protests, the Transformers: Age of Extinction actress will sit down for an on-camera statement in a month’s time.

She will be the first member of the Peltz family to answer on-the-record questions about the shock that threatened to derail the $3.5 million marriage.

Nelson, who kicked off the legal battle last December, had scheduled a statement for May, but it was postponed while the two sides met for an attempted mediation.

His wife Claudia, 68, and Nicola are both listed as third party defendants, despite their lawyers filing requests to have them removed from the “malicious and mean-spirited” counterclaim.

Aware that his claims are frivolous, PDE (Plan Design Events) embarrassingly tries to falsely portray Nicola in an extremely negative light to tempt the media and hopefully make Mr. pressuring Peltz to reject his well-founded allegations against PDE,” Peltzes’ lawyers wrote. in an application in June.

“While this was tailored for the tabloids, it couldn’t be further from the truth.”

Nelson’s lawsuit accuses Braghin, 42, and Grijalba, 40, of attempting a “good old-fashioned shakedown” and trying to bill for work they never performed or were formally contracted to do.

He claims they were simply “not up to the task” of hosting the lavish, fairytale-like ceremony he envisioned for his daughter at the family’s sprawling Palm Beach estate.

The veteran planners came on board in February 2022, just six weeks ahead of the 500-guest showpiece, taking over from Preston Bailey, an industry icon who previously planned Catherine Zeta-Jones’ wedding to Michael Douglas.

“Peltz had given them the opportunity of a lifetime — to have their names associated with the wedding of two world-famous celebrities, which would undoubtedly make PDE a wedding planning stardom,” Nelson’s attorneys wrote.

In reality, however, it later became clear that (Braghin and Grijalba) saw this as an opportunity to take advantage of Peltz by making material misrepresentations both on their website and personally regarding their experience, expertise and ability to plan the wedding. ‘

In their counter suit, Braghin and Grijalba claim that the arrangements they inherited were chaotic, with multiple, competing guest lists and a bride-to-be reportedly “too busy” to talk to them on the phone.

Travel arrangements had not been made and even the flowers and cake had yet to be sorted, along with hair and make-up artists, photographers and videographers, their lawsuit.

And when the planners suggested a wedding ring to Nicola, she labeled them “cheesy” — and only wanted the singer, it is alleged.

It was also clear, the pair claim, that the Peltzes didn’t want their famous in-laws, football legend David Beckham and his Spice Girl wife Victoria, to know about the last-minute glitches.

“Both Claudia and Nicola had insisted that Victoria Beckham not know about any internal errors related to the ongoing planning of her son’s wedding, including any errors with the guest list,” the planners’ file read.

At a meeting on March 1 last year, it adds: “Nelson said in front of Braghin and Grijalba that he ‘wanted to cancel the wedding’ and that it was ‘as a *** show’, but Claudia begged Nelson not to because it would “destroy Nicola’s career.” ‘

Braghin and Grijalba, who say they spent 17 years building their business, claim their firings came despite Nicola sending them a gushing text a day earlier saying, “You’re killing it!”

The pair are also suing famed wedding designer Rishi Patel, claiming that the Peltzes only brought him into the fold so that Patel could gossip about them behind their backs.

Nelson and Claudia kept Patel on but replaced them with his friend, Michelle Rago of Michelle Rago Destinations, Braghin and Grijalba claim.

Patel denies making “inappropriate” comments and has asked the court to dismiss him from the case, arguing that the basis for his involvement is “vague and unsupported.”

In their most recent motion to dismiss, Nicola and Claudia’s lawyers allege that they never entered into an agreement with Plan Design Events and therefore cannot be held liable for any money owed to the company.

“The strategy of the suspects in this case is simple and transparent,” their lawyers wrote on June 8.

In a desperate attempt to distract from their own failure to accomplish anything substantial in the short time they claimed to be acting as substitute wedding planners under an alleged written agreement with Mr. Peltz, and Mr. Peltz alone, PDE accused a salacious, unfounded and legally flawed third party claim against the daughter of Mr. Peltz, Nicola, and wife, Claudia… despite the fact that Nicola and Claudia were not parties to the alleged agreement.”

Nicola’s whims take place in Los Angeles, where she and 24-year-old Brooklyn share an apartment.

It will be recorded by “sound and visual means” and will continue on a “day to day” basis until completion, according to a notice filed with the Miami-Dade County Circuit Court.