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Last August, the first drop of 100 presale tickets (at $499 each) for Fyre Fest II sold out within a day, despite its website at the time offering no lineup, no specific location and no details ...
Fyre Festival 2 tickets go on sale as Billy McFarland attempts to come back from 2017 disaster: 'My dream is finally becoming a reality'
The first Fyre Festival in 2017 was a disaster that landed him in prison on wire fraud charges. ... and McFarland claimed his first batch of 100 tickets sold out. More than a year after McFarland ...
The festival's website said that the event was "targeted for the end of 2024 in the Caribbean", and that the first batch of tickets had sold out within a day. [82] On February 29, 2024, McFarland posted on Instagram that Fyre Fest 2 was being scheduled for February 2025 at the Coral View Beach Resort, on the Honduran island of Utila . [ 83 ]
William Zervakos McFarland (born December 11, 1991) is an American businessman some of whose enterprises have been characterized by fraud. He has served time in prison for financial crimes related to Fyre Festival, having defrauded investors of $27.4 million. [1] Vanity Fair describes him as "the poster boy for millennial scamming". [2]
Billy McFarland at a 2014 Magnises event. Magnises was a card-based membership club co-founded by convicted fraudster Billy McFarland in August 2013. [1] Similar to Fyre Festival, another later scam by McFarland, Ja Rule was the spokesman. [2]
Billy McFarland, the convicted fraudster behind 2017's infamous Fyre Festival, says fans are already snapping up tickets—ranging from $400 to $1.1 million—for the event's second edition.
Fyre Festival, a fraudulent, widely criticized music concert on the Bahamian island of Great Exuma Fyre Fraud, a 2019 Hulu documentary about the Fyre Festival; Fyre, a 2019 Netflix documentary film about the Fyre Festival; Fyre, a fantasy novel in the Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage; Fyre (software), a digital tool for producing artwork