Convicted fraudster Billy McFarland says the Fyre Competition catastrophe was so good he’s gonna do it twice. Saying Fyre Competition II—tickets begin at $499. Right here’s the newest.
Billy McFarland pleaded responsible to fraud and acquired a sentence of six years in federal jail again in 2018. McFarland was launched from jail in Might 2022 and was held beneath home arrest till September 2022. The unique Fyre Competition, in partnership with Ja Rule grew to become a viral sensation after utilizing fashions and social media influencers to advertise a glamorous music pageant within the Caribbean. Tickets to the occasion shortly bought out, however when concertgoers arrived, they had been shellshocked to search out what amounted to refugee tents on seashores reasonably than the luxurious seashore suites they had been promised.
Now Billy McFarland says he is aware of what went flawed and he’s bought a 50-page plan to make Fyre Competition II: Electrical Boogaloo higher than ever.
“This can be a large day as a result of, as of proper now, Fyre Competition 2 tickets are formally on sale,” McFarland says in a TikTok video. “It has been absolutely the wildest journey to get right here, and it actually all began in the course of the seven-month stint in solitary confinement,” he admits.
“Finally, we determined that Fyre Competition 2 is coming again to the Caribbean,” McFarland continues. “We’re concentrating on Fyre Competition 2 for the tip of subsequent yr and, within the meantime, we shall be doing pop-ups and occasions internationally.”
Tickets for the revived catastrophe pageant within the Caribbean at the moment are on sale for an occasion pegged to occur December 6, 2024. The primary batch of tickets has already bought out at their $499 ‘early chicken’ pricing. So who’s performing? Who is aware of. We don’t know a location, who would produce, sponsor, or the rest in regards to the precise music pageant. However right here’s what we do know.
Billy McFarland owes the victims of the primary Fyre Competition greater than $26.4 million. A decide ordered him to pay 40% of a $19,000 talking payment to that sum, so ostensibly any cash collected from this effort would additionally go in direction of making the unique Fyre Competition victims entire. Who would signal on for that? And in case you would, I’ve bought some oceanfront property in Arizona I’ll promote you—simply $499.