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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

The Guardian - UK

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.

Fortune

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

Evening Standard

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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

The Independent UK

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

Evening Standard

That "We Didn't Start the Fire" revamp

Lyrics for Fall Out Boy's cover of Billy Joel's hit range from George Floyd and Fyre Festival to Kanye and Brexit

Salon

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.

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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 Independent UK

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.

The New Daily

'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.

ABC News

Fyre Festival ‘1.5’: Billy McFarland claims he has funding for second festival

The first Fyre Festival was branded a fradulant disaster and led to Billy McFarland’s imprisonment

Evening Standard

“Fyre Festival II is finally happening,” says the disgraced founder

You could be excused for asking if Billy McFarland is serious.

Fortune

Billy McFarland says Fyre Festival II is ‘finally happening’

McFarland asks his followers to tell him why they should be invited

The Independent UK

When we happily pay £45 for a YouTuber’s energy drink, the age of the scammer is truly dead

Post-Fyre Festival, Caroline Calloway and Anna Delvey, being scammed by your idols now has currency, says journalist Amelia Tait

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Fortune

The founder of the infamous Fyre Festival is planning another business venture

Billy McFarland spent four years in prison after the collapse of the previous event.

Daily Mirror

'Fyre Festival' Christmas grotto leaves kids in tears over horror Santa with no hands

Families visiting the Enchanted event in East Lothian claim children were put on a ride by "undertrained" staff who then wandered off leaving them trapped "going round and round"

Daily Mirror

Fyre Festival fraudster Billy McFarland announces new event costing £200 - with a twist

Fyre Festival was advertised by A-listers including Hailey Bieber, Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid, tickets cost as much as £75,000, but the event left a lot to be desired and organiser Billy McFarland was jailed

Evening Standard

Fyre Festival’s Billy McFarland launching PYRT festival in the Bahamas

Billy McFarland is back on the party scene with his new venture PYRT festival

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The New Daily

Billy McFarland, the Fyre Fest organiser, is back with another venture

Fyre Festival's organiser Billy McFarland is out of prison and back with a new business which he hopes will repay his debts.

The Independent UK

Bahamas official calls Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland a ‘fugitive’ as he launches treasure hunt venture

McFarland just finished a five-year prison sentence for wire fraud

The Independent UK

Billy McFarland says he was ‘wrong’ to put on Fyre Festival in first TV interview since prison release

‘I was so driven by this desperate desire to prove people right,’ fraudster said

Daily Mirror

Creator of shambolic Fyre Festival teases new project after prison release

Manchester Evening News

Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland says he is ‘working on something new’ following release from prison

The convicted fraudster was released from prison earlier this year after serving four years

Evening Standard

Fyre Festival scammer Billy McFarland ‘celebrated prison release with cocktail party’

Promoter William “Billy” McFarland was jailed for defrauding investors to help him stage the failed music show in the Exumas

The Conversation

Canada could have its own Fyre Festival fiasco if it doesn't amp up event regulations

In the spring of 2017, the public spectacle over the now infamous Fyre Festival seemingly broke the Internet.

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