The Z-List

Birthday boy ...Jay z

YOU know that feeling when you throw a party then worry who's going to come?
JAY-Z doesn't have that problem.
The guest list for his Though it probably helped that he flew people out from New York on two private jets.
The partygoers included KANYE WEST, P DIDDY, OPRAH, MARY J BLIGE, ALICIA KEYS, LIL WAYNE, KATE HUDSON, NE-YO, M.I.A and baseball players A-ROD and PEDRO MARTINEZ. Wife BEYONCE and his mum Gloria were the guests of honour.
Close pals CHRIS MARTIN and GWYNETH PALTROW couldn't make it but sent congratulations by video.

Guest ... Beyonce

Only one invited guest let Jay down completely, TIGER WOODS.
The bash was themed around the AL PACINO gangster movie Scarface - so Tiger would have fitted in just fine.
The Jigga Man hired a mansion in the resort of Casa de Campo - which looked just like Tony Montana's home in the Eighties film, full of marble pillars, balconies and gold statues.
Tacky, but brilliant.
After a lavish dinner, which included vintage Dom Perignon and Cristal Champagne and caviar - which cleared out local stocks - the party really started.
Both Kanye and P Diddy took to the stage before the birthday boy did an impromptu rendition - with Alicia's help - of his own track Empire State Of Mind when the DJ played it.
A huge firework display went off at midnight and there was a display from synchronised swimmers in the pool.


Guest ... Alicia Keys
To ensure no pictures of the bash were leaked, guests had to leave their phones at the door.
And even to get into the party they had to use the password 'Bye, Bye Blackbird'.
Jay-Z just loves gangster movies, as this is the last line JOHNNY DEPP utters as famous 1930s gangster JOHN DILLINGER in MICHAEL MANN's film Public Enemies. Jay-Z's album, American Gangster, was based on the 2007 film of the same name, but he drew on his experiences to write the lyrics.
In his early days he was a genuine gangster, well sort of.
He's admitted selling crack cocaine in Brooklyn, New York, where he grew up.
But the rapper has come a long way since his street-dealing days, selling 40million records worldwide and headlining Glastonbury in 2008.
Whether the party ended with Jay locked in his upstairs office with a bowl full of drugs as the army stormed the villa, I cannot confirm!

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