Fyre Festival
Cancelled Thunder Beats Promoters Sued for Lack of Refunds
Earlier this year, Thunder Ranch Entertainment Group announced the Thunder Beats Music Festival to take place April 22nd through 24th in Pensacola, Florida. The festival came with an impressive lineup for a first-year event including Marshmello, Kaskade, deadmau5, Steve Aoki, Adventure Club, Dillon Francis, RL Grime and more. In March the promoters released the following …
Watch Out Clubbers! Fyre Festival’s Billy McFarland Released from Prison Early!
Billy McFarland the disgraced party promoter of the infamous Fyre Festival was released from prison early on March 30th according to media reports. McFarland was originally given a six-year sentence in 2018 after being convicted of 2 counts of wire fraud. At this time it appears that McFarland is currently restricted to a halfway house. …
Ja Rule Finally Dismissed from Ongoing Fyre Fest Lawsuit
Rapper Ja Rule aka Jeffrey Atkins has officially been dismissed from the $100 million class action lawsuit against him over his involvement in 2017’s epic fail, Fyre Fest. The festival’s chief marketing officer, Grant Margolin, was also dropped from the case however the class action lawsuit against founder, Billy McFarland, is still ongoing. The two …
New Netflix Series Crosses Fyre Festival with Survivor and the Beach
Coming out this September 12th is a 7-part series which from the trailer is a mashup of the Frye Festival along with the Survivor and Black Mirror tv shows. Dubbed ‘Welcome to the I-Land,’ the trailer starts off much like the original Fyre Festival promo videos did before moving into some sort of nefarious things …
Fyre Fest Founder Writes Prison Memoir, Hints at Festival Sequel
It’s been just over one year since the booze-soaked, model-endorsed fiasco unfolded, two scathing documentaries have released via Netflix and Hulu investigating the head-scratching series of events that ultimately led to its failure, and the saga of the elusive Fyre Festival continues. Founder and convicted con-artist Billy McFarland has made headlines again, this time by his own …
Ultra Day 1 starts well, ends with Fyre Festival comparisons!
According to all reports, day 1 of the Ultra Music Fest generally started well with few reports issues with shuttles getting festival goers to the event. There were some power outages around 3pm but in general the event seemed to flow smoothly. Until the end. As the festival ended, a large palm tree caught on …
IG models Bella Hadid, Kendall Jenner and talent agencies subpoenaed by Fyre Festival investigator
In the past week, Instagram models Bella Hadid, Kendall Jenner and Emily Ratajkowski among others and their talent agencies have been served subpoenas by the court-appointed investigator diving deep into the Fyre Festival’s financials. In addition, music talent agencies CAA, Paradigm and ICM have been served regarding $1.4 million in up-front payments for talent which …
GoFundMe campaign for Fyre Festival food vendor featured has raised over $154,700 to date
A GoFundMe fundraiser campaign has been launched this past weekend on behalf of Maryann Rolle, owner of the Exuma Point Resort who was out more than $50,000 after providing thousands of meals to Fyre Festival workers only to be stiffed on the bill for food as well as lodging. The campaign has been trending since this past …
Netflix and Hulu release dueling Fyre Festival documentaries this week!
While Netflix got the initial jump on the Fyre Festival documentary buzz with their trailer last fall, Hulu has beat them to the punch with their Fyre Festival doc “FYRE FRAUD” available today for streaming while Netflix’s “FYRE, The Greatest Festival That Never Happened” drops on this Friday the 18th. Both documentaries focus on the …
Netflix to release Fyre Festival documentary this January!
From the gift that keeps on giving aka the Fyre Festival fiasco, this January a new documentary about the ill fated event in the Bahamas is set to premiere on Netflix. Promising unseen footage and reactions from attendees, we hope the doc gives more visual evidence to the horribly produced event which led to the …
