Nick Stavropoulos reportedly involved in 2018 incident in Mykonos

It’s the high society stoush everyone knows about, but was never reported on. Until now. What happened between Kambala parents on the Greek island of Mykonos?

The beautiful town of Mykonos set the scene for an incident between Kambala parents. Picture: Getty Images

It’s the high society stoush everyone knows about, but was never reported on. Until now.

Days after Sunday Confidential reported on popular eastern suburbs mother Litsa Stavropoulos’s $100,000 50th birthday bash (which was thrown by her husband, former Excite Travel director Nick Stavropoulos, whose business owed $35 million to creditors when it collapsed in 2020), Confidential’s phone ran hot with calls and texts asking if we knew about what’s been dubbed “the infamous 2018 Greece trip”.

What was meant to be a fun-filled getaway between Kambala parents and their kids became memorable for all the wrong reasons.

According to multiple sources, an incident took place at a Mykonos day club involving Nick Stavropoulos and another holiday-maker, a well-known fashion personality who Saturday Confidential has chosen not to name.

What ensued from this misunderstanding were legal threats, bodyguards, heated exchanges and members of the wealthy Kambala set — who pay as much as $50,000 a year in tuition fees for their kids — forced to choose a side.

An incident in Mykonos involving Nick Stavropoulos (pictured, inset, with wife Litsa) still has tongues wagging in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

While what purportedly went on in Mykonos is not funny for all, it did raise a laugh from those watching from the sidelines at Kambala’s 2018 Book Week event.

Just weeks after the incident took place, some of the Mykonos travellers were seen uncomfortably socialising with each other at a preschool function.

“In among sausage rolls, pumpkins, princesses and peacocks you had these enormous pumped-up minders,” one insider told Saturday Confidential.

“It was like they were ready to go into combat.

“Thank god Covid struck not long after because they ended up not having to see or deal with one another.”

Stavropoulos has done his best to fly under the radar since the collapse of his business by shunning a social media account, however Litsa has been snapping and posting the couple’s luxurious lifestyle on Instagram.

Litsa (widely considered one of the nicest women among the eastern suburbs clique) shared a snap of herself and husband travelling on the back of a superyacht in Greece captioned: “The little things. The simple things.”

At the time of the collapse, Stavropoulos and co-founder George Papaioannou expressed “deep regret”.

There is no suggestion either they or the company did anything wrong. However the Stavropouloses have been criticised by even those close to them for displaying their wealth after the company collapsed.

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