Despite the bomb threats that shut down Aspen on New Year’s Eve, Niche Media’s Jason and Haley Binn went ahead with their annual party at the Hotel Jerome.
It’s usually co-hosted by a bold name or two, and this year, it was scheduled to be Ivana Trump. But she dropped out of the party “due to the nature of the evening” said a Niche publicist.
“Although Ivana opted not to go out to ring in the New Year, the incident wasn’t enough to diffuse other guests from heading back to the Hotel Jerome to celebrate the end of 2008.”
But the private Caribou Club was unable to open at all.
“We were too close to the core” of the evacuation area, said a receptionist today.
So where did all those swells go?
Restaurants that were open were jammed. And we hear there was a 90-minute wait at the Hickory House rib joint on the road out of town.
Meanwhile, Denver socialite Lucy Dikeou held her annual New Year’s Eve party at her Aspen home without a glitch. It sat outside the evacuation zone and was decorated with 10 giant snowmen.
Fireworks were canceled on New Year’s Eve, but the two shows were set to light up the night sky tonight.
