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The Latest Breaking News from Billy McFarland

Fyre Festival founder announces date for high-priced sequel (no word on cost of cheese sandwiches though)

Billy McFarland was jailed for fraud over the ill-fated 2017 edition of the festival

The Independent UK

Fyre Festival II going ahead with tickets costing $8,000, but details still unclear

Currently, there is no venue, no date, and no lineup but co-founder Billy McFarland has said ‘Fyre II has to work’

Evening Standard

Fyre Festival founder says sequel event is happening, but can’t say when, where, or who will attend

No word on if Fyre Fest II will use the same cheese sandwich providers it employed the first time around

The Independent UK

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Scandal-hit Fyre festival is back with tickets at nearly $8,000

Event in 2017 was axed over inadequate accommodation, food and water – and landed its co-founder in jail for fraud

The Guardian - UK

Seth Meyers calls out Trump’s ‘flagrant lie’ that he doesn’t know anything about Project 2025

‘Late Night’ host challenges former president‘s claims to know ‘nothing about Project 2025’

The Independent UK

Santos, now booted from the House, got elected as a master of duplicity -- here's how it worked

U.S. Rep. George Santos, a Republican from New York, was expelled on Dec. 1, 2023 from Congress for doing what most people think all politicians do all the time: lying.

The Conversation

Sam Bankman-Fried’s ‘young, eccentric billionaire’ shtick was just another part of the grift

As with Elizabeth Holmes and Billy McFarland, the story seemed too good to be true – because it was, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

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Fyre Fest 2.0? Chris Rock and Diplo escape Burning Man festival as 70,000 stranded in desert

Pair trudged through mud for five miles after heavy downpours led to chaos at the Nevada site

The Independent UK

Fyre Fest 2.0? Chris Rock and Diplo escape Burning Man festival as 70,000 stranded in desert

Pair trudged through mud for five miles after heavy downpours led to chaos at the Nevada site

The Independent UK

Friday briefing: Has Yevgeny Prigozhin, Putin’s madcap mutineer, met his end?

In today’s newsletter: Yevgeny Prigozhin is almost certainly dead – but, with the current state of chaos in Russia, could his plane crash be a smokescreen?

The Guardian - UK

Billy McFarland went to prison for Fyre Fest. Are his plans for a reboot legal?

The controversial entrepreneur is seeking redemption and some people are ready for him to try. Tickets have sold out. But he still owes $26 million in restitution to the people he fleeced.

WEKU

First Thing: Republicans feud over Trump in first 2024 primary debate

Eight candidates, who gathered in Milwaukee in hope of catching up to former president in polls, also argued about abortion and the climate. Plus, 130 million people under heat alerts in 22 states

The Guardian - UK

Relighting the Fyre: will anyone risk the follow-up to the worst festival ever?

Billy McFarland is claiming that Fyre festival 2 is on the way, following on from his catastrophic 2017 disaster, with tickets already selling out

The Guardian - US

The Fyre festival fraudster is back – and I’m fascinated by his brazenness

He’s done his time in jail and now Billy McFarland has something new to sell. But who’s going to buy it this time, asks Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

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Fortune

Fraudster Billy McFarland says $500 tickets for Fyre Festival II have already sold out

McFarland was jailed over his role in the original catastrophic music festival in the Bahamas.

Salon

Fyre Fest II is happening, no really

The convicted felon announced the new event, which supposedly already has early presale tickets sold out

Evening Standard

Would anyone be crazy enough to go to Fyre Festival 2?

There is no venue, no date, and no lineup. But Billy McFarland is selling $500 tickets for round two of his failed festival

The Independent UK

Wanted: gluttons for punishment. Billy McFarland announces ticket prices for Fyre Festival II

Festival fraudster has provided little information about what the sequel to the failed festival will entail

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Evening Standard

Fyre Festival fraudster announces second festival after spending time in prison

The original festival saw guests, who had been promised a luxury music experience, met with cancelled acts and cheese sandwiches

Pedestrian.tv

For Just $778, You Too Can Risk Suffering Extreme Dehydration & Financial Ruin At Fyre Fest II

Wonder who will suck a dick to save this one?

The Independent UK

Billy McFarland claims he has secured funding for ‘Fyre Festival 1.5’

McFarland does not reveal details about Fyre Festival 1.5, but says reaction to his getting artists ‘has been so extreme’

Tribune News Service

Convicted co-founder Billy McFarland claims Fyre Festival II is drawing major interest

Fyre Festival co-founder Billy McFarland claims thousands of people expressed interest after he teased bringing back the event, six years after the disastrous first edition led to his fraud conviction.

The Independent UK

Ja Rule says he has absolutely no involvement in Fyre Festival II: ‘I don’t know nothing about it!’

Rapper is at pains to distance himself after he co-founded the disastrous event

The New Daily

Convicted fraudster Billy McFarland is on Fyre again

Billy McFarland, the fraudulent organiser says Fyre Festival II is 'finally happening', just over a year after he was released from prison.

ABC News

'Fyre Festival II' is 'finally happening', says convicted fraudster Billy McFarland

After his 2017 music festival collapsed on its opening weekend, leaving attendees stranded and starving on a remote island with no musical performances, Billy McFarland says he wants to have another go at running the event.

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