These are external links and will open in a new windowFyre Festival was the most talked about festival experience of 2017, but not because anyone had any fun there.Advertised by famous faces including Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid and Hailey Baldwin, it was billed as a glamorous party on a deserted island.Tickets cost up to $100,000 (£75,000) and guests who booked were promised luxury accommodation and "the best in food, art, music and adventure" in the Bahamas.Instead they turned up to mattresses on rain-soaked floors, meals of cheese slices on bread and their luggage thrown into a unlit car park.Fyre Festival is now the subject of two new documentaries, one of which premieres on Netflix on Friday.Seth Crossno, a blogger and podcaster, and his three friends spent $45,000 (£34,785) on tickets, travel and luxury accommodation.But when they turned up they found it was still practically a building site. Seeing that there is no chance of preparing the site on time, they would, for example, have the chance to reschedule the event and prepare technical facilities in a reliable way. Models posted orange squares on their feeds with the hashtag #FyreFest Billy McFarland (right) - with the backing of rapper Ja Rule - was the mastermind of Fyre FestivalHailey Baldwin (now Bieber) promoted the festival on her Instagram accountLais Ribeiro and Bella Hadid rode jet skis and ventured to Pig Beach as part of a promotional shootThe models were given a free vacation to film the promotional video, but were then told to avoid the first weekend of Fyre Festival as accommodation wasn't ready for themTop models Alessandra Ambrosio, Bella Hadid, Hailey Baldwin, Emily Ratajkowski, Elsa Hosk, and Lais Ribeiro were also paid to promote the festival Bella Hadid later apologized for her involvement in the Festival on InstagramBefore Fyre Festival, Billy McFarland had created Magnises, a credit card aimed at wealthy millennials, which was later exposed as a scam"I too was hustled, scammed, bamboozled, hood winked, lead astray!!!" They spend millions on models, private jets, and yachts. The plaintiffs, Kenneth and Emily Reel, accused the organizers of sending A seventh lawsuit was filed in Manhattan federal court as a class action suit on behalf of Sean Daly and Edward Ivey.
The organizers didn’t want to agree on the company’s six-figure cost. It’s not like they have other festivals. We decided to stick this out until they kick us out.We pulled in and it looked like a massive shitty parking lot with rows of unmarked white tents. ‘But, but…’ – you will say – ‘there was food there’. As Bert Holman from Alman Brothers said: “I can’t figure out what this thing is. They’d also be able to better control expenses and marketing activities.“Any professional would know 30 to 60 days out that this thing wasn’t happening to the level they were advertising it,” says Bert Holman, the manager for the Allman Brothers Band to the Rolling Stone. They got something that did not suit their expectations nor even approached them.
The judgment was granted against Billy McFarland in absentia after he failed to respond to the court proceedings. On the drive to the airport, all eight of us were making jokes that we were going to show up and no one would be there. They promised charter planes, but it was just a normal airline with a bunch of kids on it. Instead, they arrived to find the "exclusive villas" were FEMA tents and the promised meals by a celebrity chef were sad cheese sandwiches.