To answer your question. The tables near the dance floor are a couple grand with a choice of Grey Goose or mid level whiskey. They do expect you to spend more throughout the night on overpriced shitty Ace of Spades champagne. Rip off how they charge thousands for a bottle worth shit. To have a DJ intro and such it probably cost $15-$25k for the night, especially if he had friends join him. It's not earth shattering numbers.
Do you really think he had to pay? I thought they were promoting it as his party. When I've known others to do this what happens is the guy doesn't pay a dime for the actual tables. They get them when those fools start ordering the alcohol and such. They use their image to get folks to come out to vip
I only go out for special occasions these days so maybe things have changed.