{"id":755042,"date":"2026-07-10T17:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/755042\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T17:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:20:08","slug":"fears-for-delicate-wildlife-after-a-list-bash-rages-at-hamptons-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/755042\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears for delicate wildlife after A-list bash rages at Hamptons beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities feared for the lives of vulnerable birds after an A-list party raged on a Hamptons beach.<\/p>\n<p>Leonardo DiCaprio, Alix Earle, Mike Tyson, Tobey Maguire, Travis Scott and more hit the dunes last weekend for nightlife guru Richie Akiva\u2019s annual The Afters bash, this year thrown with fashion brand Elie Tahari.<\/p>\n<p>But we\u2019re told that while revelers nursed hangovers the next morning, village authorities are surveying the damage to the local wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will have the plover monitors go down [to the beach] and check,\u201d wrote one village official Monday morning in an email seen by Page Six, \u201cI am fairly certain the chicks are dead or displaced.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWow,\u201d they added, \u201ctoo much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The stretch of beach between Sagaponack and East Hampton is a vital breeding ground for the endangered piping plover.<\/p>\n<p>As Page Six <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/07\/06\/society\/inside-the-hamptons-hottest-4th-of-july-parties\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has already reported<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re told by multiple people that the party had permits for a certain timeframe but that it blew through that curfew.<\/p>\n<p>In other emails we\u2019ve reviewed, a local complained to the village clerk in an email with the subject, \u201cSad day and major damage at\u2026 beach,\u201d with photos showing heavy equipment being used to remove a temporary metal roadway from the beach, apparently a remnant of the bash.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the authorities sent it to a colleague, saying of the roadway, \u201cAny way you can add this to any violations while your writing violations?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImpinging public access to such an important public asset is beyond reason,\u201d they railed.<\/p>\n<p>The village clerk declined to comment on the alleged damage or whether the event\u2019s hosts would be barred from returning next year, telling Page Six only that all permit applications are reviewed \u201con a case-by-case basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elie Tahari didn\u2019t get back to us. Reps for Akiva declined to comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities feared for the lives of vulnerable birds after an A-list party raged on a Hamptons beach. Leonardo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[323561,186,1918,35509,268875,323562,79,1247,15720,201],"class_list":["post-755042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-elie-tahari","tag-exclusive","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-new-york-city-society","tag-richie-akiva","tag-sagaponack","tag-science","tag-society","tag-the-hamptons","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}