EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Will Princess Anne’s son resign from the company run by ‘serial cheater’ Casey Wasserman, the American tycoon who slept with a string of female employees?

The quest to coin an honest shilling has at times proven dangerous for Princess Anne’s son, Peter Phillips.

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

But now, I can reveal, he faces the most serious dilemma of his career just a year after becoming head of “partner acquisition” at agency CSM Sport & Entertainment’s motorsport division.

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

But that, unfortunately, is not the reason why Casey Wasserman has set tongues wagging 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 has been accused by numerous women of being a ” “serial cheater” who sleeps. with those who catch his eye at work, he rewards them with La Perla lingerie, Louboutin shoes, and even Range Rovers, and then drops them without looking back.

“He could go from 100 to zero in just a few hours,” one has said, while no less than six of his accusers allege that 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 most serious of all is the publication of an email sent by former private jet cabin attendant Jenny Chandler to his wife, Laura, in March 2021. “He and I have been together for seven years and he ‘He lied to you about it,’ the email said. ‘He fucked me in your bed.’

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

Laura and Wasserman divorced that same year.

Now Wasserman has suffered a new defection: singer Billie Eilish left his agency.

Phillips, 46, refuses to say whether he will follow her out. You may have noticed that Wasserman has survived turbulence before – he once flew to Africa on Jeffrey Epstein’s Boeing 727, nicknamed ‘Lolita Express’ – but was otherwise untainted by the sex offender.

Bomb He narrowly misses the Lebanese fashion designer

His dresses are worn by Heidi Klum, Kate Winslet and Nicole Scherzinger, but Lebanese-Italian designer Tony Ward almost missed Paris Fashion Week due to the escalating conflict in Lebanon.

“We were almost hit by a bomb,” he tells me in his Paris showroom. ‘I was going to the airport and a bomb exploded 50 meters from the car. So we are stuck here (in Europe). “We don’t know if we will return or stay here.”

Ward adds: “It’s not the first time they’ve tried to attack 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 string of successes.

“Life is constant disappointment, setbacks and failures,” says the 53-year-old author. “If I told you all the failed TV shows I’ve been involved in over the last 30 years, you’d need to change the cartridge in your printer.”

Osman adds: ‘I’m delighted to be able to say that my daily life is a constant failure: cooking badly and not being able to change a light bulb correctly. If you’re worried that I don’t have enough failures in my life, I can ease those worries.’

Elton is off the road but on 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 surgeries and health problems.

But his ability to make money remains intact.

I hear the pop star, 77, and her husband David Furnish, 61, enjoyed a £12million payout after fortunes at one of their investment businesses saw a nice rebound.

The couple withdrew the cash from Tekcor Ltd, which manages a share portfolio that at one point reached more than £164 million in the 12 months to April this year.

According to newly released figures, the company sold a large amount of shares, making profits of more than £3.5 million along the way.

David, who is the director of the company, and Sir Elton have significant control over the company. As a result, the company’s accounts state: “During the year the director and her husband withdrew funds totaling £12,062,670.”

Let Gwynnie eat cake

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

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

“Cinquante-deux,” he comments, referring to his 52nd birthday.

The star has said that turning 50 was “great”, despite having been worried about previous milestones: “When I turned 40.” . . “I really went crazy.”

Sue remembers the days with Sir Paul

The 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 just friends,” says the 80-year-old actress. ‘But he used to drive me home. He used to come to our house. It was a lot of fun and a nice friendship, but then I fell in love with the Swinging Blue Jeans drummer and that was it.’

He adds: “The girls on our street used to ask me for their cigarette butts when he was gone and I thought maybe I should sell them, but I didn’t.”

Rolling with the punches is Jess’s dream come true

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

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