Fyre Fest II tickets are allegedly promoting out — regardless of no lineup or venue – Nationwide
If FEMA tents and chilly cheese sandwiches are your thought of enjoyable, Fyre Pageant II may be proper up your alley.
Billy McFarland, the fraudster creator of the notorious failed Fyre Pageant, has introduced he’s already promoting tickets to the occasion’s second strive.
Regardless of there being no official date, musical line-up or perhaps a location — save for the very fact Fyre Pageant II will apparently happen “within the Caribbean” — the primary 100 tickets have allegedly already bought out. The tickets have been priced at US$499 (greater than C$575) every. The occasion is anticipated to happen at “the tip of 2024,” in response to the pageant’s web site.
In a video posted to social media on Sunday, McFarland stated he developed a 50-page plan for the pageant throughout a stint in solitary confinement. McFarland was positioned in solitary confinement in 2020 after he participated in a podcast and mentioned his crimes whereas in jail.
McFarland served almost 4 years in jail on fraud-related fees to do with the preliminary Fyre Pageant in 2017.
“It has been absolutely the wildest journey to get right here, and it actually all began throughout a seventh-month stint in solitary confinement,” McFarland stated within the announcement. He appeared sporting AirPods and a white bathrobe within the close-up video.
“I wrote out this 50-page plan of how it might take this general curiosity and demand in Fyre and the way it might take my skill deliver individuals from around the globe collectively to make the inconceivable occur.”
The Fyre Pageant II web site advertises six different upcoming ticket pre-sales, with costs starting from US$799 (virtually C$1,080) to US$7,999 (about C$10,845).
On Tuesday, McFarland claimed the primary 100 Fyre Pageant II tickets had been bought.
“FYRE is about individuals from the around the globe coming collectively to tug off the inconceivable,” McFarland wrote. “This time we’ve unimaginable help. I’ll be doing what I like whereas working with the most effective logistical and infrastructure companions.”
McFarland stated all ticket sale income shall be held in escrow till the date of Fyre Pageant is introduced.
McFarland first introduced the return of Fyre Pageant in April, almost one yr after he was launched from jail in Could 2022. He was jailed after he pleaded responsible in 2018 to defrauding about 80 pageant traders.
Initially marketed as a two-weekend-long luxurious music pageant on the island of Nice Exuma within the Bahamas, Fyre Pageant and McFarland have been outed as frauds when festivalgoers have been met with lower than appropriate situations in 2017.
Upon arrival, the 5,000 ticketholders have been informed all the pageant’s headlining musicians had already pulled out of the lineup. The connoisseur meals they’d been promised was below-subpar cheese sandwiches and the posh lodging was revealed to be FEMA catastrophe tents.
A tweet displaying the cheese sandwiches served to Fyre Pageant attendees in 2017.
Netflix / courtesy Everett Assortment
The pageant was co-founded and marketed by rapper Ja Rule, who had influencers like Kendall Jenner, Emily Ratajkowski and Hailey Bieber promote the occasion. (Ja Rule later stated he was additionally scammed by McFarland and was subsequently dismissed from a US$100-million class-action lawsuit.)
As a part of his 2018 jail sentence, McFarland was ordered to pay again the US$26 million he’d defrauded from traders.
Each McFarland and Ja Rule have publicly apologized for the disastrous 2017 Fyre Pageant.
On high of launching Fyre Pageant II, McFarland additionally claimed to have a documentary and a Broadway musical about Fyre Pageant at the moment within the works — precisely what everyone seems to be clamouring for.
On social media, of us couldn’t resist poking enjoyable at McFarland and Fyre Pageant II, with many voicing warranted issues that the second occasion may be a rip-off.
NBC Information reporter Mike Sington stated the launch of Fyre Pageant II “simply proves there’s a sucker born each minute.”
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