Fyre Festival - Wikipedia
WEBFyre Festival was a luxury music festival organized by Billy McFarland, an American businessman whose enterprises have been characterized by fraud, and the American rapper Ja Rule. It was originally created with the intent of promoting the company's Fyre app for booking music talent.
Fyre Festival: Inside the world's biggest festival flop - BBC
WEBA new documentary sheds light on what allegedly went on behind the scenes at the disastrous Fyre Festival.
How Fyre Festival's organizer scammed investors out of $26 million - CNBC
WEBAug 18, 2019 — In April 2017, roughly 5,000 people spent hundreds to thousands of dollars for tickets to what they thought would be the experience of a lifetime: a luxury music festival in an idyllic tropical...
Infamous fiasco Fyre Festival relaunches — and is already sold out
WEBAug 23, 2023 — Six years after Fyre Festival became synonymous with epic disaster, its founder announced he's relaunching the failed music and camping retreat — and its first drop of tickets have already sold...
The Fyre Festival settlement reveals the true cost of …
WEBApr 15, 2021 — The organizers of Fyre Festival have agreed to a settlement with 277 attendees that will pay them $7,220 apiece for suffering through the now-infamous “luxury” event that failed to deliver on ...
Fyre Festival: What happened in 2017 and how the first event …
WEBAug 24, 2023 — Pictures of disaster relief tents, soggy food and stranded festival-goers quickly turned the event into a viral disaster, sparking several lawsuits and even a criminal investigation into McFarland. The saga was documented in …
Fyre Festival: Ticket-holders to receive money from $2m class ... - BBC
WEBApr 16, 2021 — Four years after the Fyre Festival fiasco, 277 ticket-holders could see some $7,220 (£5,226) returned, thanks to a settlement in a US federal court. Organisers of the 2017 music event, which was...
Fyre Festival Ticket Holders Win $7,220 Each in Class-Action …
WEBApr 15, 2021 — Nearly four years after an infamous festival that was billed as an ultraluxurious musical getaway in the Bahamas left attendees scrounging for makeshift shelter on a dark beach, a court has decided...
Fyre Festival: Founder Billy McFarland jailed for six years - BBC
WEBOct 11, 2018 — The founder of the ill-fated Fyre Festival - called a "complete disaster" by fans - has been jailed for six years by a US judge. Billy McFarland, 26, pleaded guilty to fraud earlier this year.
Fyre Festival: Hundreds May Win More Than $7,000 Each In Settlement - NPR
WEBApr 16, 2021 — Some four years later, hundreds of ticket holders are poised to receive more than $7,000 each after settling a class-action lawsuit with event organizers. The settlement was reached Tuesday in U.S....