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Was Malia Obama spirited away from 'wild' party on Martha's Vineyard?
President Barack Obama’s elder daughter Malia reportedly had to be spirited away from a “wild party” on Martha’s Vineyard, after it was shut down by police.
The Obamas are currently taking their annual fortnight break on the exclusive Massachusetts island. And Malia, who turned 18 last month, is thought to have been at a party in the village of West Tisbury, which got out of hand.
West Tisbury police would not say whether Malia was one of the young people who were shooed out of the gathering, which took place at a private home near the presidential summer retreat.
They refused to confirm it, giving “national security” as a reason.
When questioned by The Boston Herald – which first published the reports – a police officer said: “Sounds like a good excuse, doesn’t it?”
He added: “We responded to a noise complaint, like we do numerous times this time of year.
“We told them to go home and they did.”
Malia was reportedly escorted home by her Secret Service detail.
And the paper reported that, “coincidentally — or not — President Obama and Malia went for a walk together on a trail near their residence yesterday morning, according to the White House pool reports.”
Last week Malia was captured on an iPhone video at Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago, puffing on what was described as “a suspicious cigarette.”
Mr Obama has himself admitted to experimenting with marijuana when he was a young man.
The paper speculated: “Do you think there was a little father-daughter chat about how Malia might make better use of her gap year?”
Malia is due to begin studying at Harvard in September 2017.
Her younger sister Sasha, 15, has spent the summer working in a restaurant on Martha’s Vineyard.
The family will remain in Washington DC once Mr Obama steps down in January, so that Sasha can remain in the same school.