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McFarland announced “Fyre Fest 2.0” back in April, nearly a year after he was released from prison. In 2018, the disgraced tech entrepreneur/marketing consultant pleaded guilty to multiple counts of fraud in connection with the first Fyre Fest. The event was billed as a high-end music experience in the Bahamas, and secured promotions and investments […]
Fresh off announcing the second iteration of Fyre Festival, the event’s founder, Billy McFarland, is challenging Ja Rule to a boxing match. McFarland, the mastermind behind 2017’s disgraced festival, issued the challenge during a recent sit-down with DJ Akademiks. In the below clip, McFarland facetimed with a promoter, who said someone is willing to pay $350,000 to watch McFarland and Ja […]
Nearly one year after being released early from prison over the highly publicized failure known as Fyre Festival, Billy McFarland appears to be looking to bring the event back. McFarland posted a tweet Sunday declaring that Fyre Festival II is “finally happening.” “Tell me why you should be invited,” he added. McFarland was sentenced to six years in prison in […]
Billy McFarland, the disgraced fraudster behind the disastrous Fyre Festival, is no longer behind bars. In 2018, the New York-born entrepreneur was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple counts of wire fraud. According to the Bureau of Prisons website, McFarland was released March 30 from the Milan Federal Correctional Institution in Michigan, and is now […]
In a new, unsanctioned interview from prison, Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland admitted he “knowingly lied” to investors. Per the New York Post, McFarland admitted that he conned millions of dollars from investors to fund his disastrous music festival. “I think the biggest mistake before I went awry was just setting an unrealistic time frame for the festival,” he […]
To help assist those who lost money to the disaster that was Fyre Fest in 2017, the U.S. Marshals service will auction off merch from the failed event. “This Fyre Festival-branded clothing and other items that were seized from Billy McFarland were originally intended to be sold at the Fyre Festival itself but were kept by […]
Migos will pay $30,000 as part of a Fyre Fest-spurred settlement. “The Defendant shall pay the total sum of $30,000.00 (the ‘Settlement Payment’), as full and final settlement and complete satisfaction of any claims the Trustee has raised against the Defendant,” court documents cited in a Blast report on Wednesday stated. The report adds that […]
Ja Rule hasn’t totally put the Fyre Festival disaster behind him. On Friday, Rule took to his Instagram to share his latest single, “FYRE.” He flipped the festival’s name into an acronym that stands for “For Your Real Entertainment.” He also uses the instrumental to Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick’s classic track, “The Show,” as the backdrop […]
After two documentaries brought the cringe-worthy details surrounding the failure that was Fyre Festival to light, many celebrity models and influencers were implicated in the scandal, given their affiliation with the scam. Kendall Jenner found herself embroiled in the controversy, since she was one of the A-listers scheduled to attend the ultimate music festival that never […]
The hysteria surrounding the disaster that was Fyre Festival was only heightened by the Netflix and Hulu documentaries released this year. Billy McFarland and Ja Rule scammed the masses into thinking they could go scuba-diving with Bella Hadid, which prompted tons of festival-goers to flock to the Bahamas in the hopes of experiencing Coachella 2.0. However, ole Billy now owes […]
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