Wilbur Ross celebrates birthday with a bunch of billionaires

Some people know how to celebrate a birthday. Wilbur Ross is one of them.

Some people know how to plan a party. Hilary Geary Ross is one of them.

The 200 or so people lucky enough to be invited to Wilbur's 85th birthday party last week are so, so happy that they found each other. It was a party for the ages.

All ages, actually, and all worlds.

The guest list was filled with names are from politics (Donald Trump), family (his and her kids), show business (Jennifer and Sylvester Stallone), diplomacy (at least five ambassadors) and money.

Mostly money. Really, it was hard to tell the guest list from the Forbes billionaires list. We saw all manner of Mr. Moneybags — Steve Schwarzman ($29B) with Christine; Tom Peterffy ($20B) with Lynn Wheat; Bob Kraft ($10B) with his new bride Dana; Charlie Johnson ($5B) with Ann; and Woody Johnson ($7B) with Suzanne.

So that's what, $71 billion or so? And that was just the cocktail hour, before former President Trump quietly slipped in with Melania, adding his $3B to the mix.

The retro evening (Champagne was served in those coupe glasses that you see on Mad Men) included cocktails and hors d'oeuvres on the lakeside terrace, where a guy wearing a jetpack put on a one-man aerobatics show.

After cocktails, guests moved to the ''Club El Morocco'' party pavilion for a dinner of baked potato and caviar, chicken paillard with bundled vegetables, and so much fine wine that even a former ambassador to France nodded his approval.

After a loud, enthusiastic but wildly off key rendition of ''Happy Birthday'' — not the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, this bunch — there were toasts and speeches celebrating Wilbur's wonderfulness.

But everybody already knew that.

There, in addition to the aforementioned billionaires: Luce Churchill, Mai Hallingby Harrison, Scott Snyder, Hillie Mahoney, Caroline and Tom Dean, Gretchen and Howard Leach, Michele and Howard Kessler, Grace and Chris Meigher, Judith and Achille Guest, Diana Wister, Jane Churchill, Mark Gilbertson, Mimi Kemble, Scott Snyder, Jimmy Borynack and Adolfo Zaralegui, Tom Quick and Michael Donnell, Nancy Brinker, David Ober, Katherine Bryan, Blaine Trump, Roberto and Joanne de Guardiola, Alex and Nicky Fanjul, Liza Pulitzer Calhoun and Bob Calhoun, Talbot Maxey, Mary and Pete Dawkins, Billy Beadleston, Jackie Drake, Gigi and Harry Benson, Arianna and Dixon Boardman, Dan Ponton, Jennifer and David Fisher, and a bunch more whom you will never, ever see waiting in line at the ATM.

Seen

Lee and CeCe Black, Arnie and Paola Bacchini Rosenshein, Alex Donner, Patty Raynes and Susan Gutfreund at Jean and Martin Shafiroff's annual holiday cocktail party, which was held in honor of the New York Women's Foundation ... Bill Bone, Cynthia Friedman, Bob and Sharon Bush Murray and Michael Cox Witmer at the recent American Friends of the Louvre gala ... Michael Kovner and Jean Doyen de Montaillou at the French Heritage Society's Gilded Age gala.

This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Daily News: Society: A week of billionaires, birthdays and a shout-out from the ex-president