(New York) A music festival that never took place in 2017 in the Bahamas, and which turned out to be a scam, is now announced for 2024 somewhere in the Caribbean, assured on social networks the man of business that organized the first edition for which he was sentenced to prison for fraud.
The Fyre Festival – which spawned two documentaries in 2019, including Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened on Netflix – was created by artist promotion app boss Billy McFarland and rapper Ja Rule . It should have taken place in April and May 2017 in Great Exuma in the Bahamas.
Instead, the rock, pop and hip-hop fans of the time, who had paid thousands of dollars to come from the United States, had found themselves with barely enough food, shelter and, above all, no artist, nor music.
McFarland admitted to the scam in 2018, was sentenced to six years in prison and repaid $26 million. Released halfway through his sentence, placed under house arrest, he has been free since last September.
And this time, for Fyre Festival 2, everything will be different, promised the 30-year-old in a video Tuesday on Instagram.
He points to the fact that the first 100 tickets have all been sold and that the money raised has been placed in escrow until a final date is announced, probably at the end of 2024.
But for now, beware of the risk of a second scam: Fyre 2 has no music program, or even a specific place for festival-goers. On a map on the site, fans fall directly…in the middle of the Caribbean Sea.
