Article: It's My Party... It's a cult classic: Kozlowski cavorting in Sardinia at Tyco stockholders' expense. Too bad fund managers didn't make videos as they lived it up and stuck investors with the tab.

Byline: Allan Sloan

His trial isn't even close to over, but L. Dennis Kozlowski, the former chief executive of Tyco, was convicted last week--of bad taste. The verdict was rendered by the viewing public when prosecutors in Kozlowski's criminal trial showed about 20 minutes of what has to be the cheesiest corporate video ever, shot at the $2 million birthday party Kozlowski threw for his wife on the Italian island of Sardinia. The Roman-themed party featured scantily clad men cavorting lubriciously with women in diaphanous gowns, an oiled male model gyrating on a pedestal, enough flaming torches to burn entire cities and Jimmy Buffett singing "Brown-Eyed Girl" and ...

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