Fyre Showbiz and Celebrity Breaking News

Fyre Festival have reached a $2 million settlement with 277 attendees, almost four years after a $100 million class action lawsuit was initially filed.The new lawsuit will see each of the 277 attendees receiving $7,220 (£5247), although the figure could potentially be lower as Fyre Festival is still in the middle of a bankruptcy case with a selection of various creditors.Lawyers representing ticket-holders for the Bahamian event have secured the settlement, but, as Billboard reports, it still

The US Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York has approved a $2 million class-action settlement for ticket-holders to the ill-fated Fyre Festival.

Those unfortunate music fans who were duped into buying tickets to the sham Fyre Festival look like they’ll be getting a refund.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Fyre Festival has reached a settlement with 277 ticketholders from the famously disastrous 2017 concert-that-never-happened, with each recipient being awarded $7,220 payouts. The settlement between the ticketholders and the trustee of Fyre festival assets was filed in U.S.

A tweet showing the infamous cheese sandwiches served at the Fyre Festival will be sold as a non-fungible token estimated to go for around $80,000.

Ja Rule has announced that he is selling the infamous cheese sandwich tweet from the ill-fated Fyre Festival as an NFT (non-fungible token).The notorious 2017 event saw the rapper team up with entrepreneur Billy McFarland to create a luxurious festival in the Bahamas where tickets ranged from between $4,000 to $12,000.However, Trevor DeHaas’ image of the meagre snack became widely emblematic of the doomed event after he revealed that it was being given to festival-goers who had shelled out

Ja Rule has reportedly sold his Fyre Festival logo oil painting in NFT form (non-fungible token) for £88,640 (US$122,000).As reported by Consequence of Sound, the rapper has sold the 48″ by 60″ oil painting that had been hanging in the festival’s New York office during the planning stages.

Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland has admitted that he lied to investors who pumped millions of dollars into the infamous Bahamas event.McFarland made the bold admission in an unauthorised interview from behind bars with radio host Jordan Harbinger for the Dumpster Fyre podcast – which has landed him in solitary confinement.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

Jailed Fyre Festival organizer Billy McFarland is speaking about the ill-fated 2017 bash that led him to six years in federal prison for defrauding investors of $27.4 million.

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.

had to use the torch on their phones to safely navigate the park. Organisers say they were experiencing technical difficulties on their opening night, leading to some lanterns being left unlit.They have apologised and promised that refunds or rebooking will be offered to those who missed out on the full experience.

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

US music publisher Reach Music has announced a deal to acquire the publishing catalogue and worldwide administration rights of writer/producer Young Fyre, a regular collaborator with T-Pain who has also made music with the likes of Marc Anthony, Bad Bunny, Trinidad James, Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Britney Spears and Lil Wayne.Reach Music previously administrated the producer’s rights via an alliance with T-Pain’s Nappy Boy Entertainment, and says it was given the opportunity to acquire “the full

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

Y’all can’t blame Ja Rule for this one!

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!

Thrive Philanthropy’s Connect Summit was originally charging people thousands to see their favorite stars speak.

Kendall Jenner has reached a settlement in a lawsuit stemming from the disastrous Fyre Festival. The model and Keeping Up With The Kardashians star was among a raft of social media influencers and models recruited by the organizers of the festival to promote what turned out to be fiasco of e

It’s time to pay the piper!

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.

When the Fyre Festival documentary arrived on Netflix, most people couldn’t actually believe it had actually happened and just how so many people were scammed.

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.