Before He Was Calvin Klein’s Porn Star Boyfriend, Nick Gruber Destroyed This House

gruberhouseLast year, former porn star Nick Gruber hosted an allegedly drug and alcohol-fueled dance party that led to the deck collapse of this vacation home in Guerneville, California. There was “hella people” injured!

Back in January of 2010, the party made local news in Guerneville, a.k.a. Russian River, a resort town about an hour north of San Francisco that’s commonly referred to as the gay man’s “white trash Palm Springs.” This was before Nick Gruber was Calvin Klein’s boyfriend yet after he was a porn star for Next Door Studios.

Now, this is, basically, the biggest thing that’s ever happened in Guerneville:

 

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Two nights of increasingly chaotic partying came to a crashing halt Sunday morning when the second-floor deck of a Russian River vacation rental house collapsed under the weight of scores of young people dancing.

“There were just so many people, it was just crazy. Wall-to-wall people,” said Stefanie Douglass, 18, of Santa Rosa, who said she had just stepped off the deck when it broke in two.

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“It was very dangerous to look back on,” said Tabatha Deas, 18, of Santa Rosa, one of several who described a scene of drug and alcohol-fueled revelry that culminated in near disaster.

“It was pretty gnarly,” said Sean Thompson, 21, of Graton, one of hundreds of people at the Saturday night party on Sweetwater Springs Road, near Armstrong Redwoods State Preserve. He said he was under the deck — which also held a disc jockey station — when he saw it starting to buckle overhead.

3804_13“There was hella people underneath it, and I was like telling everyone get the hell outta here — this thing’s going to go,” Thompson said. He said he was sprinting to warn the crowd of as many as 100 people dancing on the deck above when it collapsed.

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Nick Gruber, 20, of Sebastopol, confirmed Monday that he’d rented the home, but denied throwing a party. “I was trying to throw people out,” he said in a brief interview.“

Gruber’s mother, Janice Millard of Sebastopol, said her son — a 2009 El Molino High School graudate — is in the U.S. Army and was soon to deploy to Afghanistan. Now she said, he has a spinal injury and, “we don’t know what the Army’s going to do.”

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“This was outrageous,” said Camille LeGrand of Russian River Getaways. “I don’t think any deck would have withstood this. They were having a rave — 80 kids on this small deck and they were all bouncing to the music.” LeGrand said that her agents are trained to screen prospective renters, with an eye toward avoiding just such incidents — “Oh my God, they almost never get by us,” she said.

She said of Gruber: “He was very credible, very well-spoken, very expensive clothes,” she said. Gruber told her he was deploying overseas and wanted a nice, quiet place where he could propose to his girlfriend, LeGrand said. “He was very convincing.”

The home rents for $295 a night. Some partygoers said they were being charged a $5 admission price. The safety of the deck had raised eyebrows among some partygoers. “Everybody was saying that the deck might fall — people were even jumping on it as a joke,” said Jenny Lopes.

“Let’s just say in the beginning, when I got there, you could tell that the deck was shaky,” said Thompson. “And everyone, including myself was like, ‘Oh man, this is going down tonight, but nobody took it seriously. And then it went down.”

After his lavish 21st birthday party last week in New York City, featuring cameos by Anna Wintour and Alec Baldwin, Gruber’s come a long way from drunk teen raves in vacation homes! Good thing NYC’s Indochine didn’t have an outdoor deck.

 

[Harrowing Tale Of Teen Party Gone Wrong; thanks, Estelle]

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