Fyre Festival is making a comeback following its controversy.
Billy McFarland, the festival co-founder who spent four years in prison for fraud before his release in May 2022, unveiled his plan for Fyre Festival II, slated to take place in the Caribbean in 2024.
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Tickets are on sale ranging from $499 to $7,999. Further details surrounding Fyre Festival II, such as specific locations, dates, and performers are yet to be announced.
In a video posted to his YouTube channel, Billy expressed his delight with bringing Fyre Festival back.
He said, “It has been the absolute wildest journey to get here, and it really all started during a seventh-month stint in solitary confinement. I wrote out this 50-page plan of how it would take this overall interest and demand in Fyre and how it would take my ability bring people from around the world together to make the impossible happen.”
Fyre Festival, a three-day, two weekend event originally held in the Bahamas in 2017, attracted widespread criticism due to its poor living conditions for attendees who spent between $1,000 and $12,000 on tickets.
Living arrangements consisting of disaster relief tents, food offerings of bread and cheese sandwiches, and lack of staffing eventually led to the festival’s cancellation.
Later, Billy and co-founder Ja Rule were sued for $100 million in a class action lawsuit, which granted 277 ticket holders a combined $2 million.
The controversy inspired a pair of documentaries: Netflix’s Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened and Hulu’s Fyre Fraud.
In preparation for Fyre Festival II, Billy plans to do “pop-ups and events across the world”.
See details about the project Billy worked on while in prison here!
