Goga Ashkenazi's 30th Birthday Party

Goga Ashkenazi was queen for the night at her extravagant 30^th. Guests were instructed to dress 'sexy and fabulous' for the 30^th birthday bash of Goga Ashkenazi, the Oxford-educated socialite pal of the Duke of York and Kazakhstan's hottest export to London. Some 260 friends descended on Anton and Lisa Bilton's Tyringham Hall, their green domed Buckinghamshire stately. R&B star Akon performed after arriving amazingly late, having been stopped at customs at Heathrow. Apart from that it was all about the birthday girl: the house had a vast image of her face projected onto it, the cake was a confection of Prada and Hermes handbags, the vodka ice bar had 'Goga' carved into it and Robert Hanson made a speech about her that included the inevitable Borat reference. The laughter was replaced by awed silence for a 40-minute laser show, which the crowd watched from the specially built nightclub. Fabulous.