Oxford society’s ‘pagan orgy’ at Airbnb mansion
A NOTORIOUS Oxford University society held a ‘ pagan witch orgy’themed party at an Airbnb mansion – shocking elderly neighbours.
Around 50 students partied at the rented house. Some revellers were semi-naked and dressed in fetish gear, while one wore a plastic horse’s head.
The winter ball was organised by the secretive Piers Gaveston Society – a university dining club which has a reputation for debauched drink- and drugfuelled sex parties. It held a £110-a-head summer ball in Oxfordshire last year which is said to have featured a ‘drugs tent’ and a sex show where a ‘virgin’ was allegedly whipped.
The winter ball in Cadmore, Buckinghamshire, on Tuesday comes despite the university vowing in 2018 to banish any future events by the society.
Neighbours of the luxury fourstorey Airbnb property said the lewd theme had ‘dragged’ the name of the village down.
The mansion, which has six bedrooms and a baby grand piano once played by Frank Sinatra, cost nearly £1,000 to rent. It has space for up to 23 guests and is advertised on the rental site as suitable for ‘large family gatherings or special occasions’. The Oxford students arrived on a packed coach at 8.30pm.
A source revealed the theme was a ‘pagan witch orgy’. Music pumped out of the house and disco lights flashed in the windows. Revellers were seen emerging sleepily the next morning and being picked up by taxis.
There is no suggestion of illegal activity. However, neighbours in the village – where the average property is worth over £1million – complained.
Retired aerospace consultant David Simpson, who has lived in Cadmore for 20 years, claimed the party had ‘dragged the whole area down’, adding: ‘Good Lord! It makes you wonder what’s going to happen next.’ He insisted when the house became an Airbnb venue ‘the class of clientele changed’. Yesterday, the owner of the mansion said he was unaware of the Piers Gaveston Society. Adrian Burns, 53, added: ‘When a person books the house we are not there to supervise exactly what happens.’ A spokesman for Oxford University said: ‘This group is not an official university society and we do not endorse any events it holds.’ The Piers Gaveston Society was set up in 1977 and named after a suspected gay lover of King Edward II. Famous former members include actor Hugh Grant, who wore a bizarre head garland, leopard outfit and chains around his neck at a 1983 Gaveston ball.