Consideration stars and Hollywood execs, in case you’re seated subsequent to some wealthy randos in alternative seats on the Golden Globes, they could have purchased their approach in.
Seems, now you can pay to attend the Golden Globes for $70,000 — in what a Hollywood insider known as a “shameless” transfer by Penske Media which owns the awards in addition to the journal providing the tickets through a concierge present information.
The $70K additionally will get the big-bucks purchaser and a visitor a stroll on the pink carpet and into the after-party, plus a stylist, a keep on the Peninsula Beverly Hills and the awards’ coveted swag bag.
Luxurious journal Robb Report — which can be owned by Penske Media, and curates the awards’ present luggage — is providing three pairs of Golden Globes tickets at $70,000 per couple through its concierge service, The Vault’s final present information. (The president of Robb Report can be the top of luxurious gross sales for PMC.)
The Golden Globes tickets are being provided by The Vault together with gadgets like a $4.5 million energy boat, a $110,000 Cartier watch, a $200,000 bottle of Chardonnay and vineyard tour and an “Aspen journey” with professional surfer Laird Hamilton and “Free Solo” climber Alex Honnold.
An leisure enterprise vet informed Web page Six after they seen the Golden Globe tickets up for grabs amidst all of the high-end swag, “That is shameless… $70,000 for a pair of tickets, and the tix include a tux!”
In response to the Golden Globes’ personal FAQ web page on its official web site, the reply to the query, “Can I get tickets to attend the Golden Globes?” has a seemingly definitive reply.
“No, tickets for the awards present usually are not accessible to most people. Viewers members embody nominees, studio and broadcast companions, sponsors, presenters, and friends of the Golden Globes,” it presently says. (The FAQs additionally state “the pink carpet for the Golden Globes is simply accessible to accredited members of the media working on the occasion.”)
A spokesperson for the Golden Globes mentioned after we reached out for remark, “Golden Globes tickets usually are not made accessible or bought to most people.”
The Vault’s web site, which is public, says, “See one thing you want? Add it to your want listing and ship us an inquiry. Our concierge can be in contact promptly to assist facilitate your buy and put you in contact with the relevant service provider(s).” The location says once you click on on a type for the tickets: “Thanks on your curiosity. Please present the knowledge beneath and The Vault concierge can be in contact shortly to confirm your inquiries. As soon as verified, your data can be supplied to the relevant service provider who will contact you concerning your curiosity.”
To buy an merchandise, the positioning says, you simply, “Fill out an inquiry type together with your contact data. The Vault concierge will show you how to get in touch with the manufacturers to buy your merchandise.”
The Robb Report’s Vault on-line present information says that for $70K: “The weekend will kick off with an invite to the intimate Golden Eve Get together, a non-public gathering with trade insiders. On awards night time, January 11, you’ll take your home at an official desk contained in the Golden Globes, get pleasure froming premier seating and proximity to a few of the greatest names in Tinselcity. After the ceremony, proceed the night on the after-party, mingling with the leisure world’s most outstanding figures.”
The present information additionally provides: “Even your memento can be genuine: the Golden Globes’ Final Reward Bag, historically reserved for presenters and winners. Inside is a curated booklet by Robb Report providing your alternative of ultra-luxury experiences — from five-star wellness retreats to scarce, collectible spirits. Will probably be a red-carpet weekend so exhausting to come back by that even cash can’t normally purchase it.”
On prime of all that you simply’ll get “lodging on the Peninsula Beverly Hills… together with skilled styling for the primary occasion. Thom Sweeney will costume the lads in bespoke fits for the pink carpet” in case you cough up the cash.
As of Sunday night time, no consumers appeared to have landed the tickets as there have been nonetheless three of three pairs left.
The present information sums up that consumers will get: “Pink-carpet arrival and movie star mingling, Golden Eve Get together with trade insiders, Premier desk seating on the Golden Globes ceremony, Star-studded after-party,” in addition to, “VIP Golden Globes entry, Bespoke Thom Sweeney styling, Entry to the Golden Eve Get together and after-party, Expertly curated Final Reward Bag.”
The awards turned a for-profit entity when Penske took over the present from the non-profit Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation.
Final 12 months the awards’ official present bag had a price of $1 million.
Penske Media owns a mini-monopoly of showbiz websites and publications like Selection, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Indiewire, Deadline and Rolling Stone.
Final 12 months rival websites the Wrap and the Ankler reported that Penske owned Selection was promoting studios on a “Golden Globes salon dinner sequence,” that went for $70,000 per occasion, based on an alleged gross sales deck they obtained.
However a Penske rep informed the Wrap in response on the time, “It is a misappropriated deck, not in circulation, and was printed by aggressive web sites portraying journalistic intent with an intent to mislead and misinform.”
Web page Six completely revealed media insiders have been fuming over the Golden Globes’ new greatest podcast class — calling it a Penske Media “racket” quite than an innovation.
An insider alleged that the brand new class was “actually only a car” for marketing campaign adverts to go to Penske’s shops for a Penske awards present with eligibility decided by a Penske firm, Luminate, which deemed the highest 25 reveals eligible.
A rep informed us beforehand final month: “The podcast and leisure trade stay extraordinarily excited concerning the Golden Globes first ever podcast award, and almost each eligible nominee has submitted to be acknowledged for his or her distinctive work.”
