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April 8, 2004 [ view bill's dossier ] [ view kwame's dossier ]
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 The next day, Kwame's group was having a meeting when Diane called. Omarosa answered and Diane told her that the driver went to pick up Jessica Simpson's band at the airport, but they weren't there. Kwame got on the phone and Diane told him that she tried to get in touch with Omarosa so that Omarosa could confirm the travel information to avoid an issue like this one. Omarosa jumped back on the phone and said that she was confused by this misunderstanding.  Diane told Omarosa that she needed to track down the correct travel information and arrange for Jessica Simpson's band to be picked up. Kwame pressed Omarosa for what happened. He asked Omarosa if the call she had received the night before at dinner was about this issue. Omarosa said no. She said that Diane hadn't called her at dinner – when in fact, Diane had! Omarosa claimed that Diane's office had simply called with a message from Diane, but that Diane had already left for the day – again not true!  Kwame called back and apologized to Diane for the problem. But in an interview, Kwame had harsher words. He said that when he assigns someone a task, he expects them to follow through. He also said that he would normally fire someone who he thought was not competent, but that he just didn't have that luxury right now.
Bill had an issue to deal with himself.  His group had not gotten permission to store all of the items for the many gift baskets they were to create and distribute, so they ended up having to store boxes and boxes of items in Lesley Rey's office, who was the Director of Sales and Events at Trump National Golf Club. Bill admitted that he might be inconveniencing her, but he said that he had a job to do and didn't care right now.
Back at the Taj Mahal, Kwame's group sat down to dinner with Jessica Simpson's father, Joe Simpson, who is also her manager.  Omarosa went back to the office to make some arrangements and got a call from Diane, who said that Jessica Simpson was missing. The driver was at the airport as instructed, but Jessica was not. Omarosa called Kwame, who played it cool in front of Jessica's father. Later, Troy and Kwame went to the office. Omarosa said that the ultimate success of the project rested with Kwame, “It's not us any more, it's you, baby.” In an interview, Kwame said that in the real world, he would never hire Omarosa because it was her job to be in charge of the flights.  In her own interview, Omarosa put the responsibility squarely on Kwame and said, “Kwame was not hands-on and it turned out to be a huge, huge disaster.” Kwame didn't want to leave Jessica's father for too long and went back to him, leaving Omarosa and Troy to find Jessica. Omarosa made calls while Troy used a walkie-talkie. Omarosa confirmed that the driver was still at the airport, but there was no Jessica. Omarosa asked, “How do you lose a rock star?” To be continued… next week.
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