Fyre Festival
You Can Buy These Items from the Fyre Festival Merchandise Collection Seized from Billy McFarland
Thanks to the mythical implosion of the dumpster fire that was Fyre Festival, you can now get your hands on a memento from the notorious event. The US Marshals Service is auctioning off merchandise seized from the festival’s disgraced founder, Billy McFarland, to augment efforts to offer restitution to his victims. From July 30th through August 13th, you can bid on 126 items, including loungewear, bracelets, and retrospectively humiliating tokens emblazoned with the phrase, “a conspiracy to change the entertainment world.” According to US Marshal Ralph Sozio, McFarland was planning to sell the merchandise even after his arrest following the festival’s historic descent into ignominy. “The proceeds from the sale of these items, all traceable to McFarland’s...
Updated Fyre Festival Lawsuit Seeks to Order Billy McFarland to Pay $7.5 Million in Damages
Over three years later, the Fyre Festival debacle rages on. Ticket-holders from the calamitous April 2017 event on the Bahamian island of Great Exuma filed a class action lawsuit against the fraudulent event’s owner, Billy McFarland, following its implosion of mythical proportions. Those patrons are still in pursuit and have recently asked a New York magistrate to issue a default judgement, which would order the disgraced founder, who is currently in prison in Ohio, to pay them $7.5 million in damages. With McFarland behind bars, a litany of investors, pass-holders, and trustees are still scrambling to receive due funds in the wake of Fyre’s bankruptcy. The tricky part, however, is where exactly those funds will come from considering his acute financial status following th...
Kendall Jenner Settles Fyre Festival Lawsuit, Ordered to Pay $90K
Remember when Fyre Festival seemed like the closest thing to the apocalypse? Kendall Jenner sure does, as she was sued over her involvement in the doomed festival back in December. Three years after the event was meant to take place, the 24-year-old model can finally put the ordeal behind her — and it’ll only cost her $90,000. Along with a number of musicians and influencers, Jenner was sued by Gregory Messer, the trustee in charge of the bankruptcy for Fyre Media, co-founded by Fyre Fest mastermind and disgraced entrepreneur scam artist Billy McFarland. The lawsuits are aiming to recover the reported $14.4 million McFarland spent planning the luxury festival. $275,000 of that sum was paid to Jenner for a single Instagram post promoting the event, something the trustee argued amounted...
