Turn it down!
A well-heeled group of Washington lawyers, lobbyists and media types nearly found themselves on the wrong end of the law Friday night, as the middle-aged crowd got a little too noisy for the neighbors.
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The place: Lobbyist Hilary Rosen’s well-appointed home in the Palisades.
The event: A 50th birthday party for Tammy Haddad, who just left MSNBC to launch Haddad Media. Thrown by Haddad’s husband, Ted Greenberg, Rosen, Lynne Wasserman and David Adler, the party featured such big names as Bill Press, Andrea Mitchell and Dee Dee Myers, an open bar and a tented dance floor in back.
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It was those last two that apparently were the issue, as the fuzz showed up just past 10 p.m.
“I went out and they wouldn’t talk to me,” said Haddad, who lives down the block. “They said they wanted the owner.”
Fortunately with all the attorneys in the room, she added, “We had a lot of people to represent our interests if we needed it.”
Indeed, when Rosen made her way out to the front porch, she had counsel in tow: Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren, a lawyer by trade who broke into the news biz as a legal analyst.
It wasn’t hard to make her case to the cops, Van Susteren told us. She and Rosen just agreed to turn the music down.
At any rate, she said, “That’s the first time I’ve been to a party where the cops came in years. I wasn’t sure whether to troll for clients or for guests for my television show.”
So was it a nosy neighbor who called in the complaint? Van Susteren’s not sure, but she has another theory. “I was thinking that Tammy went home to her own house and placed the call to get more buzz about her party,” she joked.
More photos: (credit: Neshan H. Naltchayan)
