If you happen to’re within the mood for being stranded on a field with nothing but a cheese sandwich and FEMA tents to remain in, you’re in luck!
Billy McFarland announced in a video posted to YouTube on Sunday that Fyre Festival II is officially a go.
“It is a big day. It has been absolutely the wildest journey to get here, and it really all began during a seventh-month stint in solitary confinement,” the convicted con artist said within the video.
“I wrote out this 50-page plan of how it could take this overall interest and demand in Fyre and the way it could take my ability bring people from all over the world together to make the unimaginable occur.”
McFarland, 31, said he worked with the “best partners on this planet” who’ve allowed “me to be me, while executing Fyre’s vision to the very best level.”
In deciding where the large comeback should happen, he allegedly spoke to people “as distant because the Middle East and South America” before ultimately deciding on the Caribbean — again.
“Within the meantime, we’ll be doing pop-ups and events internationally. Guys, that is your probability to get in. That is every little thing I’ve been working towards. Let’s f–king go,” he concluded.
The event will happen at the tip of 2024, though there aren’t any other concrete details concerning the event on the web site. Specific dates, location and festival lineup haven’t been shared, and the one VIP perks described are vague, reminiscent of “FYRE Pop-Ups,” “The FYRE Crew Community” and “FYRE Experiences,” which include “FYRE Fights,” documentary and film screenings and weekend trips.
Tickets are currently on sale, and for somewhere between $499 to $7,999, you can also have the chance to be “hustled, scammed, bamboozled, hood winked, and led astray,” identical to Ja Rule, with whom McFarland launched the unique Fyre Festival.
Back in 2017, Fyre Festival was promoted as a luxury music festival within the Bahamas, which was promoted by influencers and A-list models reminiscent of Kendall Jenner and Emily Ratajkowski, and had at one point advertised Blink-182, Pusha T, Kaytranada, Major Lazer and Lil Yachty as performers.
The disastrous event went viral, and its downfall led to documentaries on each Hulu and Netflix: “Fyre Fraud” and “Fyre: The Best Party That Never Happened,” respectively.
In March 2018, McFarland pleaded guilty to wire fraud and got six years in prison — ultimately serving nearly 4 in federal prison for defrauding investors and committing wire fraud.
He was released in May 2022 and transferred to a halfway house for community confinement and has been on supervised release since.
McFarland cheated victims out of greater than $26 million, and he previously defended his money-making plans to The Post, saying: “Every thing right away is to construct a foundation for the following seven to 10 years.”
“So many individuals ask me, ‘How are you going to pay $26 million dollars?’ And unfortunately, no person’s offered $26 million dollars right away. The one strategy to ever get there may be to construct a solid foundation, get the most effective possible people around me after which do a very good job with the opportunities I do have.”
