April 2024: Unlike Brooklyn’s many career paths, Nicola has stuck to showbiz, evolving from actor to writer-director, and makes her behind-the-camera debut with Lola, about a teenager living in abject poverty.
February 24, 2023: Somehow we’re still gossiping about the Peltz Beckhams’ wedding almost a year after it took place. Here’s why: In December 2022, Nelson Peltz—Nicola’s billionaire father—filed a lawsuit against two of the wedding planners who were briefly hired to take over the project after another set of planners were let go. (In total the couple would end up going through three sets of planners to get the job done.) In Nelson’s filing, he accuses event planners Nicole Braghin and Arianna Grijalba of failing to return a $159,000 deposit after they were abruptly fired. Notably, Braghin and Grijalba of Plan Design Events were hired a mere six weeks out from the bride and groom’s wedding date—and on the job for only nine days before getting the axe.
Braghin and Grijalba filed a countersuit seeking damages. In documents obtained by People, several cups of piping hot tea about the Peltz Beckhams’ wedding are served. A central point of contention seems to be the way Nicola and her family treated the planners, even asking them to withhold information about wedding spending from Nicola’s father.
“It is believed that Nelson Peltz paid more than $100,000 plus travel expenses for Nicola’s hair and makeup services for the wedding,” the suit reads. “Claudia [Nicola’s mother] mentioned to [one of the planners] that Nelson could not know the cost of the hair and makeup, or he would ‘kill her, and be so mad.’”
The planners also cite near constant changes to the guest list for Nicola’s side of the family and a great desire on the Peltzes’ part to hide the messiness of the planning process from the Beckhams. In one of hundreds of texts presented in the suit, Nicola allegedly told the planners: “This is not what I asked for. I ASKED FOR OUR INVITE LIST. IN. VITE. NOT. RSVP. Can u manage to send that to me.” At one point Nelson reportedly threatened to cancel the wedding, dubbing it a “shit show.” But according to Braghin and Grijalba, Claudia intervened and “begged Nelson not to cancel the wedding because it would ‘destroy Nicola’s career.’”
Among other juicy, but less sordid, details from the suit, there’s an anecdote wherein Brooklyn suggests adding his-and-her burgers to the catering menu. “We should do a brooklyn burger,” the groom allegedly wrote. “Like double or single burger and a nicola burger witch is no bun and it’s lettuce instead of Bun and meat for the girls.” In another missive, Brooklyn instructs the planners to “ask the security at the wedding to get those guns that shoots a net because there’s probably gonna be drones.”
February 22, 2023: Adding to his collection of 70-something tattoos in Nicola’s honor, including a drawing of her eyes on the back of his neck, Brooklyn proudly debuts a new portrait of his wife on his upper arm. “I’m half-covered with stuff for her,” Brooklyn told The Rundown’s Erin Lim, lifting the sleeve of his shirt to show off the fresh ink. “They’re very addictive. Especially when you love someone, you just want to cover everything.”
