Fears for delicate wildlife after A-list bash rages at Hamptons beach
Authorities feared for the lives of vulnerable birds after an A-list party raged on a Hamptons beach.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Alix Earle, Mike Tyson, Tobey Maguire, Travis Scott and more hit the dunes last weekend for nightlife guru Richie Akiva’s annual The Afters bash, this year thrown with fashion brand Elie Tahari.
But we’re told that while revelers nursed hangovers the next morning, village authorities are surveying the damage to the local wildlife.
“I will have the plover monitors go down [to the beach] and check,” wrote one village official Monday morning in an email seen by Page Six, “I am fairly certain the chicks are dead or displaced.”
“Wow,” they added, “too much.”
The stretch of beach between Sagaponack and East Hampton is a vital breeding ground for the endangered piping plover.
As Page Six has already reported, about 400 people were expected for the party, but more than 1000 showed up, with some sneaking the through the woods around the beach to gatecrash.
We’re told by multiple people that the party had permits for a certain timeframe but that it blew through that curfew.
In other emails we’ve reviewed, a local complained to the village clerk in an email with the subject, “Sad day and major damage at… beach,” with photos showing heavy equipment being used to remove a temporary metal roadway from the beach, apparently a remnant of the bash.
A member of the authorities sent it to a colleague, saying of the roadway, “Any way you can add this to any violations while your writing violations?”
One local fumed that equipment and staging materials were left in several of the limited public parking spaces at the start of a hot summer day when locals wanted to take a dip.
“Impinging public access to such an important public asset is beyond reason,” they railed.
The village clerk declined to comment on the alleged damage or whether the event’s hosts would be barred from returning next year, telling Page Six only that all permit applications are reviewed “on a case-by-case basis.”
Elie Tahari didn’t get back to us. Reps for Akiva declined to comment.
