Who Is Letting Billy McFarland Organize Another Fyre Festival?

Convicted promoter Billy McFarland, who hung out behind bars for his function in 2017’s ill-fated Fyre Festival, is seemingly now speaking to “partners” to formally manage Fyre Festival 2. Last month, he teased that a re-do of the doomed occasion was “finally happening.”

But that is not all. McFarland additionally mentioned a Broadway musical primarily based on Fyre Fest is within the works. But who’s giving McFarland funds to strive Fyre Fest once more? That is left ambiguous.

“Fyre Festival 1.5 is going to be a Broadway musical,” McFarland mentioned on TikTok Monday (May 15). And, “We’re in talks with partners to pay back all of my restitution and execute Fyre Festival 2,” he added. A clip of a road interview with McFarland has additionally emerged.

Billy McFarland Talks About a New Fyre Fest

Fyre Festival History

Does McFarland be at liberty to poke the music pageant bear once more after he was granted early launch from federal jail final yr?

The con artist served his sentence for his scheme to dupe traders in regards to the fraudulent Fyre Fest luxurious musical pageant within the Bahamas, which was initially based by McFarland and hip-hop artist Ja Rule.

By the top of 2022, McFarland was dropping clues about his plans. As of April, it seemed like a brand new Fyre period could also be upon us, in keeping with the promoter’s personal Twitter.

“Fyre Festival II is finally happening,” McFarland tweeted on April 9. “Tell me why you should be invited.”

What Happened at Fyre Fest 2017?

McFarland infamously organized the 2017 Fyre Festival within the Bahamas that shortly fell aside as artists for the occasion started dropping out the week earlier than it was to happen. Some attendees made their approach to the island for the upscale pageant, however the live shows by no means even received off the bottom.

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In the top, the non-festivities amounted solely to the now-infamous photograph of a cheese sandwich offered to attendees rather than the “authentic island cuisine” they had been promised. Some attendees had been left stranded. The disastrous nature of the fest was detailed in Netflix’s 2019 documentary FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened.

McFarland was sentenced to 6 years in federal jail after he plead responsible to costs of wire fraud. He was launched after 4.

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