--- title: Comedian Ari Teman Finds AirBNB Rental Turns Into Massive Orgy description: Airbnb gone very, very wrong. canonical: https://time.com/27305/man-comes-home-to-xxx-freak-fest-orgy-after-renting-his-nyc-apartment-on-airbnb/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-17T16:08:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:51.875Z og:title: Man Comes Home to 'XXX Freak Fest' Orgy After Renting His NYC Apartment on Airbnb og:description: Airbnb gone very, very wrong. og:url: https://time.com/27305/man-comes-home-to-xxx-freak-fest-orgy-after-renting-his-nyc-apartment-on-airbnb/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt182aa63a4cb7a29e/698685d1adae44e6c0541ff6/476846003.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5400 og:image:height: 3038 og:image:alt: Stiletto Woman Legs og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Man Comes Home to 'XXX Freak Fest' Orgy After Renting His NYC Apartment on Airbnb twitter:description: Airbnb gone very, very wrong. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt182aa63a4cb7a29e/698685d1adae44e6c0541ff6/476846003.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Man Comes Home to 'XXX Freak Fest' Orgy After Renting His NYC Apartment on Airbnb > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Mar 17, 2014 4:08 PM UTC  Legs of mature woman in doorway wearing stockings and high heels Legs of mature woman in doorway wearing stockings and high heels Getty Images by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Mar 17, 2014 4:08 PM UTC If you thought that the biggest risk of Airbnb-ing your apartment was getting caught by your landlord or having a stranger go through your unmentionables, please take note. New York comedian Ari Teman came back to his Chelsea apartment Friday — supposedly rented out to a guy whose brother and sister-in-law were in town for a wedding — only to allegedly find an [“XXX Freak Fest,” also known as orgy, going on in his living room.](http://nypost.com/2014/03/17/airbnb-renter-claims-he-returned-home-to-an-orgy/) Teman promptly emailed the team at Airbnb: > [](https://twitter.com/AriTeman/status/444866902545170432) Teman’s address was posted on a recently deleted tweet by @TWINN\_GREEN that announced it as the site for the 10pm-4am, $25 “Manhattan XXX Freak Fest.” Not only was his furniture disassembled or thrown outside for maximum freaking space, but “it appears some stuffed animals were abused.” [Teman chronicled his unfortunate findings on his Tumblr:](http://dearairbnb.tumblr.com/post/79657042387/dear-airbnb-no-thank-you-for-the-xxx-freak-fest-you) --- > “” --- Just some food for thought for the next time you are thinking of renting out your room for some extra cash. > [](https://twitter.com/AriTeman/status/445548877014634496) AirBNB provided the following comment: --- > “” --- [_Gawker_ reports](http://gawker.com/man-unwittingly-rents-out-apartment-on-airbnb-for-xxx-1544961941) that within 24 hours, AirBNB sent over a locksmith to change the locks, put Teman up in a hotel for a week, and wired the disgruntled customer $23,817. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/27305/man-comes-home-to-xxx-freak-fest-orgy-after-renting-his-nyc-apartment-on-airbnb/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/27305/man-comes-home-to-xxx-freak-fest-orgy-after-renting-his-nyc-apartment-on-airbnb/"},"headline":"Man Comes Home to 'XXX Freak Fest' Orgy After Renting His NYC Apartment on Airbnb","datePublished":"2014-03-17T16:08:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:51.875Z","description":"Airbnb gone very, very wrong.","url":"https://time.com/27305/man-comes-home-to-xxx-freak-fest-orgy-after-renting-his-nyc-apartment-on-airbnb/","keywords":["Newsfeed","New York","Bizarre","Airbnb","Comedian"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt182aa63a4cb7a29e/698685d1adae44e6c0541ff6/476846003.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt182aa63a4cb7a29e/698685d1adae44e6c0541ff6/476846003.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Stiletto Woman Legs","caption":"476846003","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/27305/man-comes-home-to-xxx-freak-fest-orgy-after-renting-his-nyc-apartment-on-airbnb/","name":"Man Comes Home to 'XXX Freak Fest' Orgy After Renting His NYC Apartment on Airbnb"}}]}] ```