Stranded in Tunisia (This is a weird story)

[WillParkinson]

Eleven male models are suing Holland America and RSVP Vacations for breach of contract. The young men allege that RSVP offered them a free vacation if they promised to "mix and mingle" with guests. But, the models claim, with rumors about them circulating, RSVP forced them off the ship, leaving them stranded in tumultuous Tunisia without travel papers and money.

(Found in a local gay newspaper.)

[mitchtv]

1. rumors, you say,

what kind of rumor could get you kicked off a cruise?

[William769]

2. Gay cruise maroons models

In a complaint lodged with a U.S. federal court, BAOL says, "Defendant RSVP hired a group of attractive young men to 'mix and mingle' with their gay passengers. … In return, RSVP promised the young men a 'vacation' including food and safe passage from Barcelona around the Western Mediterranean and back to Barcelona and promised plaintiff Bel Ami that it would be permitted to photograph and videograph the young men during the cruise."

"Instead of a vacation, the young men experienced a nightmare," the plaintiff's court document states.

The Czech pornographic movie company says RSVP's entertainment manager requested that BAOL arrange for some models to join its cruise but told the young men not to discuss the arrangement with anyone. If asked, they were instructed to simply say the trip was a "reward from Bel Ami for their hard work."

BAOL says as well as arranging the cruise for its Czech, Slovak and Hungarian models, it paid their salaries, flight and lodging costs in exchange for permission to shoot footage of the cruise.

http://www.praguepost.com/news/13675-gay-cruise-maroons-models.html

Another article: http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/06/27/47853.htm

[stevenleser]

3. Something tells me those models/actors will soon be retiring in luxury

They ought to get millions each for that.

Forcing someone to disembark in a port of a country in the latter stages of a revolution is not cool by any stretch of the imagination.