1,000 Party-Goers Swamp Potomac Mansion For Pool Party: Reports

POTOMAC, MD — An estimated one-thousand people came to a pool party at a Potomac mansion advertised online. County and state legislators said they want to bar similar gatherings, with liquor and drugs freely used at the site.

Reports said the event was promoted on Instagram and Eventbrite for May 25, branded as a “Wet Dreams”-themed “mansion pool party.” Cars clogged Stapleford Hall Road, where the mansion is located, and neighbors told news outlets that tour buses unloaded guests.

Government officials who spoke to MoCo360 estimated at least 1,000 people attended. Party organizers promoted cabanas with liquor bottle service and hookah for between $1,000 and $2,000, depending on what guests chose.

“Men were screaming ‘where are the whores?’ and women were running around in thongs,” neighbor Mindy Farber told the news site. “You had to see this to believe it. Hundreds of people just kept pouring out of the buses, walking down the road to the party. People were running and screaming down the block.”

Montgomery County Police told WTOP the department is investigating the party. Officials haven't said if the homeowners were involved in the event.

The party site, as reported by both news outlets, is listed as available for rent on the AirBNB site for $600 a night.

County Councilmember Gabe Albornoz told MoCo360 the event was “completely illegal.”

“This violated multiple county policies–the noise ordinance, having a for-profit venture in someone’s home,” Albornoz said of the party in an interview with the news site. “It was egregious and dangerous and a real mess and more than just a disruption and an inconvenience, but a very dangerous one because of the traffic issues. It was just a nightmare for the neighbors that had to endure this.”