When John Arundel planned a week-long trip to Nantucket with friends this summer, he never imagined that two days later he would find himself in a jail cell, arrested on multiple charges, including strangulation.
Like most Nantucket stories, this Nantucket story is really a D.C. story. On August 16, Arundel, a divorcé from Washington, attended a boozy dinner at Nantucket’s Cru restaurant, a WASP equivalent of Sant Ambroeus, with his friend the Arizona congressman Ruben Gallego, and the attorney and domestic-violence advocate (and 2013 Miss District of Columbia Latina winner) Gilda Villela, whom Arundel was dating at the time. Also at the table were Natalie Khawam, the maverick and lawyer and socialite, and her friends Charles Borrero, an attorney, and Kevin Bates, a Massachusetts state trooper.
