The dastardly Mr Deedes

■ Nissan’s globetrotting chairman Carlos Ghosn, whose career looks in tatters after being arrested for financial misconduct, was always plagued by les folies de grandeur. It’s possible he may now come to regret the Marie Antoinette-themed party he threw for his wife Carole’s 50th birthday two years ago, renting out Versailles for 120 friends. As actors dressed in 18th century outfits serenaded guests, Monsieur Ghosn remarked boastfully: ‘When you invite people to a party, they say maybe. When you invite them to Versailles, they come.’ ■ Neptune Fund manager Robin Geffen – ‘Hammersmith’s Warren Buffett’ – offers investors his two ha’porth on banking stocks: ‘I saw the look on Fred Goodwin’s face when he realised he had bought ABN Amro. He was talking about how he was going to buy something else and something else, and then buy Goldman Sachs and be the biggest bank in the world. I haven’t owned a bank share since then.’ ■ JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon has reportedly been spending time in Silicon Valley to attract more business from technology firms. Wall Street’s head honcho has even begun wearing polo shirts and fashion- able Allbirds sneakers to ingratiate himself with casually attired tech execs. A mild improvement, admittedly, on the revolting Hawaiian shirts Dimon’s previously been known to pull on for informal occasions. ■ The Presidents Club fiasco has largely put paid to saucy entertainment in the City, but our Gallic friends have no such qualms. At the recent European Commodities Exchange in Rouen, traders were entertained après dinner by a troupe of female dancers clad in ‘rhinestoneencrusted thongs’. Stephane Menard, president of the Bourse de Commerce de Rouen, who organised the event, deflects accusations of indecency by claiming even his feminist wife found the entertainment ‘classy and appropriate’. ■ A star-studded morning at Southwark Crown Court yesterday. As well as fund manager Neil Woodford, who’s giving evidence in the Stobart case, West Ham’s Baroness Brady was also spotted click-clacking through security in her spiky heels. She was there to support her developer father Terry, who appears to be having a bit of bovver with a firm called Nua Interiors.