Hours after Michael Virgil, 35, boarded a three-night cruise with his family last December, he was dead.

Last week, his fiancee, Connie Aguilar, filed a maritime wrongful-death complaint against the Royal Caribbean cruise line, which said that he was served 33 drinks and became agitated before he was forcibly restrained by crew members, whose use of excessive force, the federal lawsuit said, led to his death.

Virgil, who lived in Southern California, embarked on a cruise from Los Angeles to Ensenada, Mexico, aboard the Navigator of the Seas, a Royal Caribbean ship, on Dec. 13, 2024, with his fiancée, their then-7-year-old son and other family members. Within hours, as the ship sailed in the waters off the California coast, he was dead. The Los Angeles medical examiner ruled his death a h

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