After the release of two documentaries about the ill-fated Fyre Festival former company co-founder Ja Rule took to Twitter to shed light on who the real victim of the whole situation was: himself.
Over a period of hours on Sunday, Ja Rule defended hi…
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Netflix’s Fyre Festival documentary is even more disturbing than we had imagined
“Desperate people do desperate things.”
Whether you witnessed that flood of orange tiles on Instagram or saw the toast and cheese pic that lit up Twitter, most social media users remember the infamous fail that was the 2017 Fyre Festival. Netflix’s new documentary, Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, is clueing everyone else in on the drama—and giving those of us who thought we knew all of the debacle’s hairy details even more to gasp over.
Directed by Chris Smith of Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond, Fyre unpacks the disastrous behind-the-scenes realities of the scam orchestrated by entrepreneur-turned-felon Billy McFarland. What was initially promoted by supermodels, influencers, and rapper Ja Rule as a luxury concert experience in the Bahamas was soon revealed to be a multi-million dollar swindle that left numerous investors defrauded and hundreds of wannabe attendees stranded in a bleak wreckage site thousands of miles from home. Read more…
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View More Netflix’s Fyre Festival documentary is even more disturbing than we had imaginedHulu unexpectedly releases “Fyre Fraud” days before Netflix’s competing documentary
Not since the literary biopic showdown between “Capote” and “Infamous” has there been such an intense battle for the attention of viewers. This time, the fight is between Hulu and Netflix’s competing documentaries about the disastrous Fyre Festival, a 2017 music festival whose failure led to eight lawsuits and a six-year prison sentence for co-founder […]
View More Hulu unexpectedly releases “Fyre Fraud” days before Netflix’s competing documentaryFyre Festival founder sentenced to 6 years in prison
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Remember the disaster that was the Fyre Festival? Well, its founder, 26-year-old Billy McFarland, was sentenced to six years in prison and ordered to pay $26,182,386 on Thursday.
McFarland was found guilty of multiple counts of fraud that included the Fyre Festival debacle in which he scammed his investors out of $26 million, according to a Vice News report.
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Hundreds of millennials traveled to the Bahamas in April of 2017 to attend the Fyre Festival. Once there, it was clear they had been duped out of the experience promised by McFarland and his numerous celebrity endorsers—Ja Rule, Bella Hadid, Kylie Jenner—as a part of his elaborate ticket scam. Tickets to the festival were sold for $450 to over $12,000. Read more…
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The Fyre Fest guy is still out here conning people
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Just when you thought it was safe, the epic millennial influencer debacle known as Fyre Festival is back in the news for, surprise, fraud.
Billy McFarland, the low-rent scam artist responsible for the festival disaster heard ’round the internet, is back in trouble for conning people again. This time, McFarland is charged with selling fake tickets to mega-festivals and events.
GRIFTER SEASON, CONTINUED: Billy McFarland, the guy behind Fyre Festival (remember? https://t.co/LjkZx1IEym), is being charged with wire fraud and money laundering for a separate ticket scheme he allegedly started AFTER FYRE FEST pic.twitter.com/YPcNTcSEks
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The Fyre Festival was one of those disasters that the world collectively couldn’t keep its eyes off of, with the internet gobbling up every detail and horror story that came out of the debacle with feverish abandon.
Well hopefully soon there’s going to be some more Fyre Festival content to gobble up — Hulu is in the early stages of developing a docuseries about the self-described luxury music festival with the help of Billboard, Mic, and The Cinemart. It’s expected to come out in 2019, The Hollywood Reporter reported Monday.
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View More Upcoming documentary to add fuel to the Fyre Festival disasterA ‘diabolical’ failed cheese event has become the UK’s Fyre Festival
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Brits are royally cheesed off after a “diabolical” cheeseboard event left hundreds of people bitterly disappointed. This debacle of epic proportions has even been likened to this summer’s Fyre Festival.
The £30-a-head ($40) “Giant Cheese Board” event—which purported to be “cheesy heaven” on earth—had so much promisePer a Facebook event, the multi-day event claimed to be an enormous cheese board that could be walked around and feasted upon.
“Carving off slices of your favourite Emmental, Red Leicester, Edam, Brie and every other cheese you can imagine? Surrounded by cheese, rolling around in cheese…eating so much ch…sorry, got carried away,” reads the event description. Read more…
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View More A ‘diabolical’ failed cheese event has become the UK’s Fyre Festival