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The Fyre Festival saga may finally be coming to an end. The organizers have settled with 277 aggrieved ticket holders of the now infamous 2017 Bahamian music festival that never really happened. The ticket holders have been awarded a payout of $7,220 each. According to Billboard, the settlement was filed …

NFTs are getting a lot of hype and headlines. New York rapper Ja Rule sold a 48-inch-by-60-inch oil-paint portrait of the Fyre Festival logo for $122,000. The artwork was sold as a non-fungible token (NFT). The rapper told TMZ that he wanted to get rid of the painting to create …

Kendall Jenner has agreed to pay $90,000 in order to settle the lawsuit for her involvement in the Fyre Festival scandal. The supermodel is only paying back a part of the original $275K that the event’s trustee Gregory Messer claims she was paid to promote the failed music festival back in …

Rae Sremmurd’s Sway Lee and Slim Jxmmi will pay back $18,000 of the money they were paid to perform at the famously fraudulent Fyre Festival, according to court documents obtained by The Blast. The duo was originally paid $100,000 to perform at the festival and settled the lawsuit against them …

The mastermind behind the failed Fyre Festival, which spawned a Netflix and Hulu documentary, is looking to be released from prison early amid coronavirus scares. Billy McFarland pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud in March 2018 and was sentenced to six years. On Tuesday, McFarland, via his lawyers, …

If you’ve read anything about the disastrous Fyre Festival, then you are familiar with the ever so loyal Andy King, the unexpected breakout star of last year’s Fyre Festival documentary. Well, now, the world’s most dedicated employee is hitting the road on a tour that will work its way across …

The Fyre Festival was intended to be the most exclusive island based musical experience for guests, and turned out to be a complete sham. Attendees were promised luxury amenities, A-list celebrity attendance, and musical performances by major artists in exchange for up to $250,000 ticket prices. Instead, what festival goers …

Like most of her family, Kendall Jenner has made many headlines over the years. While many have been related to her career as a supermodel, others have been linked to controversies and outrage. Between the backlash over Jenner’s tone-deaf Pepsi ad, the outraged over her promotional shoot for Vogue/CFDA Fashion …

Fyre Festival technically never happened, but that’s not stopping you from getting your merch! If you watched “Fyre Fraud,” you know how many people got screwed over by #BillyMcFarland’s Fyre Festival. Not only did regretful attendees lose out, but investors also lost about $24 million. As a result, a total …

Everyone has seen the documentaries, now here comes the lawsuits! #JaRule and #BillyMcFarland have been hit with a lawsuit for almost $3 Million,  as an investment company claims they got screwed when the Fyre Festival fell apart. TMZ is reporting that EHL Funding has sued the Fyre Fest dynamic duo for …

Earlier this month, Netflix released its highly-anticipated Fyre Festival documentary, “Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened,” which detailed the events leading up to and after Billy McFarland’s failed Fyre Festival of 2017.  Upon the premiere, the documentary, which featured interviews with McFarland’s associates, including the employees involved in his …

The legal drama surrounding the infamous Fyre Festival is now coming after the models who helped advertise it. IMG Models and DNA Model Management, which represent Hailey Bieber, Bella Hadid, Alessandra Ambrosio, and Emily Ratajkowsk, are now attached to a new lawsuit targeting the models that helped promote the FYRE …

Remember, Fyre Festival? The infamous disaster of everything you don’t want to happen at a festival coming to life? ⠀⠀⠀ Ja Rule is being sued for his involvement, and he wants to be dismissed from the class action lawsuit.  Though the festival advertised a luxurious traveling experience equipped with rockstars and …

Two Fyre Festival attendees are getting a nice coin after settling their case with the music festival’s owner.  Last year, the Fyre Festival experienced an epic fail after attendees were given less than adequate housing, no food and other poor conditions. Billy McFarland, the festival’s founder, had to fork over …

Fyre Festival founder #BillyMcFarland has been arrested, once again, on fraud charges for crimes he committed while awaiting sentencing for another fraud case.  Just three months after McFarland pleaded guilty to defrauding investors and vendors in the “luxury” Fyre Festival scheme, McFarland was rearrested and charged for running a fake …

The Fyre Festival was originally billed as an exclusive music festival in paradise, but as we all know, this past spring fans were left disappointed and stranded after spending thousands on what was SUPPOSED to be a VIP experience. Not only have numerous festival-goers filed lawsuits, but the company’s investors …

In case you’ve been living under a rock, Fyre Festival has been the talk of social media. The two-weekend-long festival, which was to take place in the Bahamas and feature musical acts such as Migos, Tyga and Blink 182, ended up being a disaster. The festival was promised to be …