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(continued) The Marchetta
Cosmetics stock plummets and the bank
decides to call in several loans that
the Marchetta girls have recently taken
out. With their assets frozen, they find
themselves broke. After their apartment
is accidentally burnt down by one of Persia’s
cigarettes, the girls go to the Hamptons
to try to stay with some of their socialite
friends. These “friends” refuse
to help the Marchetta girls, not wanting
to be seen with them and get “caught
up in your little scandal.” The
girls go to the Bronx to stay with their
nanny and maid, Ines, where they mistake
two kids for valet attendants and pass
them their car keys, thereby losing their
car and all their remaining clothing.
The only things the girls have left are
their father’s TiVo, a suitcase
full of underwear, and a suitcase full
of hats.
 At
the next board meeting, the board tries
to push the Marchetta girls into agreeing
to sell the company to Fabiella. They
learn that, if they sell, their make-up
will be sold under the Fabiella name,
and their father’s name will be
removed from all the make-up altogether.
They also learn that 2/3 of their current
staff would be laid off, although all
the executives would retain their jobs.
Persia notices that Tommy is wearing the
pin for the rich country club that his
deal with Fabiella got him into and immediately
knows that something is up. They postpone
the vote on the sale of the company until
later in the week and leave, pretending
that they need to go shopping. The girls
research the rich country club and learn
that the president of Fabiella is also
a member. They realize that Tommy is doing
something sneaky and call Laura Vale,
another executive on the Board. They tell
her their suspicions, and she agrees to
help – but she is in on the scam
as well!!!
The next day, Persia and
Tanzie are set up for shoplifting and
are arrested. Ines bails out the girls,
and Persia contacts Henry, convinced that,
since she is now poor, he will have to
help her and provide her with free legal
aid. Henry agrees to help her, as long
as they agree to make a huge donation
to the Free Legal Clinic once they have
all their money back. At Henry’s
apartment, Henry tells Persia that, no
matter who approved the child testing,
the company may never recover from the
scandal. He believes, however, that if
the child testing is a hoax, uncovering
who was behind it may help save the company.
The sparks fly between Persia and Henry,
and they almost kiss – but then
a big mouse shows up and Persia freaks
out, insulting Henry’s sloppy nature
and poor living conditions. Henry yells
at Persia, calling her shallow and materialistic
– “You’re all frosting
and no cupcake.” Persia leaves in
tears.
In their lowest moment,
Ines tells Persia and Tanzie that they
should never be too ashamed to ask the
Madonna for help. So, they go to Madonna
– the pop superstar! Madonna encourages
them to never give up and keep fighting
for what they believe in. The Marchetta
girls return to their company and put
their feet down – there will be
NO sale. The Board decides that they will
hold a stockholder vote to remove the
Marchetta girls and sell the company anyway.
The girls only have a few days to prove
that the cosmetics testing scandal is
a hoax!
The Marchetta girls sneak
into the reporter who broke the scandal’s
office and steal a copy of the raw footage
of the household of the two little girls
who were permanently tattooed with the
make-up. Using the stock footage, they
find the little girls’ home. They
call the girls’ mother and pretend
that the reporter will be coming by for
a follow-up interview. The mother calls
Tommy, frantic. The Marchetta girls are
able to use their cell phones to take
photos of the two little girls being made
up with garish make-up by Tommy –
they aren’t really tattooed at all
– and send the photos to stockholders
across America.
The stockholders who live
across America send in hundred of proxy
votes to keep the Marchetta girls as ChairWomen
of the Board. But they are still about
300 votes shy!!! This isn’t a problem,
however, when hundreds of stockholders
who live nearby show up in person to place
their vote for the Marchetta girls themselves!
The Marchetta girls expose the hoax to
the entire Board of Directors, capturing
it all on hidden camera, and exposing
Tommy, Laura, and the rest of the Board
to the rest of the world. Persia apologizes
to the stockholders for creating an image
of herself that made the Board think that
they could get away with trying to steal
the company out from under them. She declares
that, from this day forward, she will
run the company the way her father ran
it – and they will never have to
worry about something like this happening
again.
In the end, both girls
take active roles in running their father’s
company. Persia and Henry are reunited
and fall very much in love. And Persia
and Tanzie’s former socialite friends
suddenly find that they can’t get
tables in the upscale restaurants at which
they used to be given the best tables.
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