Oh, Fyre Festival. The gift that keeps on giving. When a gaggle of vapid influencers pay a notorious scam artist thousands of dollars to fight for mattresses on a decrepit beach with less infrastructure than post-1986 Chernobyl, the Internet did what it did best—roast them. From that cheese sandwich to the legendary Andy King, the …
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Class Action Fyre Festival Suit Reaches $2 Million Settlement for Attendees
Prior to its catastrophic downfall, it at one point seemed that Fyre Festival could command any price for a coveted ticket to the Great Exuma event. Now, four years in the rearview, it ended up being the attendees who would be compensated for their troubles. Well, at least some of them anyway. According to The New York …
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Class action settlement entitles Fyre Festival attendees to $7,200 – Dancing Astronaut Class action settlement entitles Fyre Festival attendees to $7,200
by: Rugby Scruggs Apr 18, 2021 The Fyre Festival saga that began in 2017 has is nearing its conclusion, with a $2 million class action settlement entitling all attendees to a payment of $7,200 each. Though lawyers have reportedly secured the settlement, it will not be made official until a vote can be held on …
Fyre Festival Ticketholders Will Get Reimbursed $7,000+ Each Under Proposed Settlement
Four years after the infamous disaster that was Fyre Festival took place, a class-action lawsuit might finally get attendees their money back. Ticketholders who suffered through Fyre Festival will reportedly be reimbursed $7,220 each, under a new proposed settlement in federal bankruptcy court. If approved, the $2 million settlement would offer partial to full refunds …
Ja Rule is selling the infamous Fyre Festival cheese sandwich tweet as an NFT
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). READ MORE: WTF is an NFT? 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 …
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Ja Rule sells Fyre Festival NFT for $122,000 – Dancing Astronaut Ja Rule sells Fyre Festival NFT for $122,000
by: Austria Masim Apr 1, 2021 Ja Rule has sold an original one-of-one oil painting of the Fyre Festival logo for $122,000 via NFT. In an interview with TMZ, Ja Rule indicated that his sale of the artwork was a part of his process of moving on from the infamous Fyre Festival that he co-founded …
Ja Rule Mints Fyre Festival Oil Painting As NFT, Sells For $122,000
You’d think after four years we’d all be done hearing about Fyre Festival, but even after all this time, Ja Rule is still making headlines in connection to the “-gate” of horrible festivals. In a sale finalized last week, Ja Rule auctioned off an NFT of an oil painting with Fyre Festival’s logo that ultimately …
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Ja Rule’s Fyre Festival NFT Fetches $122,000 Bid
In a bizarre reversal of fortune, Ja Rule has monetized his involvement in the infamous Fyre Festival in a way no one could have predicted. The rapper is the latest celebrity to join the NFT craze, and has successfully auctioned off a piece of Fyre Festival history. This particular NFT is of a 48″ x 60″ …
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Fyre Festival’s Billy McFarland launches new podcast from prison, ‘Dumpster Fyre’
by: David Klemow Oct 21, 2020 Remarkably, the Fyre Festival saga somehow continues. It has been three-and-a-half years since the Greatest Festival that Never Was and yet we still find ourselves asking, “what the hell actually happened there?” The tumultuous Fyre Festival fiasco that ultimately landed the luxury event’s founder, Billy McFarland, in federal prison …
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Billy McFarland Has Launched a Tell-All Podcast Called “Dumpster Fyre” from Prison
The infamous face of Fyre Festival, Billy McFarland, is ready to tell his side of the story about how “the greatest party that never happened” all went down. You may be surprised to hear that McFarland seems to have had a coming to terms with the role of his involvement in the disastrous event. “When I …