Martha Stewart wasn’t very thankful for the Thanksgiving Day parade tickets that were given to her last year.
That’s what a top Macy’s exec testified yesterday in the court battle between the domestic diva and the department-store giant over her controversial tie-up with rival JCPenney.
“She was not happy,” testified Martine Reardon, Macy’s chief marketing officer. Stewart received four VIP tickets with a value that typically surpasses the $10,000 mark at charity auctions.
Stewart’s beef? She was two bleachers over from the elite section, where Macy’s CEO Terry Lundgren hosted celebrities like director Tim Burton and actress Helena Bonham Carter, said Reardon.
Stewart’s lawyers claimed that Macy’s also snubbed her chief financial officer, Ken West, a former Marvel exec who for years had been a handler for the Spider-Man balloon.
Last year, West “was told he couldn’t handle the balloon,” a lawyer for Stewart alleged.