A music festival that never took place in the Bahamas in 2017 and turned out to be a scam is now announced for 2024 somewhere in the Caribbean, the businessman who organized the first edition, for which he was sentenced to prison, has assured on social networks of scams.
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The Fyre Festival, which spawned two documentaries in 2019 including Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened on Netflix, was created by artist promotion app boss Billy McFarland and rapper Ja Rule. It should have taken place in April and May 2017 in Great Exuma, Bahamas.
Instead, the rock, pop, and hip-hop fans of the time, who had paid thousands of dollars to get here from the US, had barely enough food, shelter, and most importantly, no artist or music.
McFarland admitted to the fraud in 2018, was sentenced to six years in prison and repaid $26 million. He was released halfway through his sentence, placed under house arrest and has been at large since last September.
And this time everything will be different for “Fyre Festival 2”, the 30-year-old promised in a video on Instagram on Tuesday.
He points out that the first 100 tickets have all been sold and that the money raised has been placed in escrow pending the announcement of a final date, expected to be in late 2024.
But for now, beware the risk of a second scam: Fyre 2 has no music program, nor does it have a dedicated venue for festival-goers. On a map of the site, fans fall right…in the middle of the Caribbean Sea.