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Fyre Festival could’ve been criminally fun. In a new jailhouse interview, incarcerated party organizer Billy McFarland admitted that he lied to the investors who put millions into funding his notorious 2017 luxury retreat failure — but blamed an impossible timeline for the scam he’s now doing time for co-organizing. “I think the biggest mistake before I went awry was just setting an unrealistic time frame for the festival,” McFarland, 29, told Jordan Harbinger in an unsanctioned interview which

ill-fated Fyre Festival, Billy McFarland, is giving his first interview from prison.The Fyre Festival made headlines in April 2017 when hundreds of festival-goers — who paid up to $100,000 for tickets and were promised gourmet food and accommodations — were left stranded on the island after arriving to an unfinished site and a lack of food and staffing, which quickly turned into chaos.

Dumpster Fyre.McFarland is currently serving a six-year sentence at the Federal Correction Institution in Elkton, Ohio after pleading guilty to multiple counts of fraud, including for the disastrous festival in the Bahamas in 2017.As The Daily Mail reports, the upcoming podcast was made by recording various 15-minute phone calls conducted over the course of one week, in which McFarland detailed his involvement with Fyre Festival.The first instalment of Dumpster Fyre, which was produced in

Daily Mail, you can hear Billy saying: ‘This is inmate number 911860054, otherwise known as Billy McFarland, the founder of Fyre Festival.‘I’m not going to hide behind my mistakes, I’m going to share everything that happened.’  A post shared by Billy McFarland (@billy_mcfarland) on Oct 14, 2020 at 11:24am PDTThe podcast was recorded through a series of phone interviews from his prison cell where he’s serving a six year sentence for conning people out of millions and McFarland hopes it will help

Blink-182 and Major Lazer has been settled.According to Billboard, Gregory Messer, the trustee overseeing the $26 million (£27.7 million) bankruptcy of jailed organiser Billy McFarland’s Fyre Media, has collected $360,000 (£277,880) of the $2.8 million (£2.2 million) paid to artists that were set to play at the disastrous 2017 festival.It comes after Messer filed 14 lawsuits last December in a bid to reclaim money on the $14.4 million (£10.9 million) that Fyre Media and McFarland paid to various

More than three years after the highly publicized Fyre Festival famously fizzled out in the Bahamas, merchandise and other “minor assets” are up for sale — courtesy of the U.S. Marshals Service.

ill-fated Fyre Festival is now up for sale at a Texas auction house.

Ja Rule and the now-incarcerated Billy McFarland (who was sentenced to six years in prison for fraud in 2018), made headlines across the world after its inaugural event in The Bahamas was cancelled following a series of serious organisational and logistical problems.Speaking about the money-raising big, U.S.

Fyre documentary."King became a viral sensation after the premiere of Fyre, Netflix's documentary charting the rise and fall of the doomed music festival created by Billy McFarland.

Andy King gained fame after his appearance in the Netflix documentary Fyre and now he has made things Instagram official with his boyfriend!

Kendall Jenner has reportedly settled a lawsuit with the trustees of the Fyre Festival over accusations she misled her Instagram followers about the disastrous 2017 event.

Kendall Jenner has reportedly settled a lawsuit with the trustees of the Fyre Festival over accusations she misled her Instagram followers about the disastrous 2017 event.

Imprisoned Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland has reportedly petitioned for an early prison release, citing his health concerns amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland is reportedly begging a judge to release him from prison early because he's at a higher risk of catching the novel coronavirus due to pre-existing health conditions. McFarland, 28, is currently serving a six-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to wire fraud in 2018.

Billy McFarland, the notorious mastermind behind the Fyre Festival debacle in 2017, on Tuesday asked to be released from prison early amid the coronavirus pandemic. In court documents obtained by The Hollywood Reporter,McFarland, through his lawyers, asked U.S.

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Billy McFarland, the notorious mastermind behind the Fyre Festival debacle in 2017, on Tuesday asked to be released from prison early amid the coronavirus pandemic.In court documents obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, McFarland through is lawyers, asked U.S.

Billy McFarland, the guy behind the failed music festival Fyre Fest, is working on a new project while in prison.

The 'Fyre-side Chat' shows begin next month

Armando Iannucci’s new HBO comedy “Avenue 5” is setting out to depict what the world will look like in 40 years with the “evolution or deevolution, as it were, of entpreneurs,” series star Josh Gad said at the Television Critics Assn. press tour panel for the show on Wednesday.

The trustee handling the Fyre Festival bankruptcy has filed 14 lawsuits against a number of major talent agencies, transportation companies, management firms and celebrities like Kendall Jenner as it attempts to claw back $14.4 million paid out by Fyre Media and its founder Billy McFarland to stage the disastrous festival in Bahamas.