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Fyre Festival was a fraudulent luxury music festival organized by Billy McFarland, an American businessman whose enterprises have been characterized by fraud, and the American rapper Ja Rule. It was originally created to promote the company's Fyre app for booking music talent.
Fyre (also known as Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened) is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Chris Smith.It chronicles the planning, failure, and aftermath of the 2017 Fyre Festival, putting the blame primarily on the event's organizer, businessman Billy McFarland.
He later founded and was CEO of Fyre Media, which developed the Fyre mobile app for booking music talent. In late 2016, along with rapper Ja Rule, McFarland co-founded the Fyre Festival, a "luxury" music festival intended to promote the Fyre app. The event was scheduled to take place April 28–30 and May 5–7, 2017, but was aborted – after ...
Fyre Fraud is a 2019 American documentary film about the fraudulent Fyre Festival, a 2017 music festival in the Bahamas. It was directed by Julia Willoughby Nason and Jenner Furst, and premiered on January 14, 2019, on Hulu .
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Ja Rule has broken his silence on his shockingly disastrous music festival, Fyre Festival. The rapper took to Twitter on Friday afternoon to release a statement in response to the uproar over the ...
In 2016, Ja Rule co-founded Fyre Media, Inc., [75] [76] a talent booking agency, with Billy McFarland. In April 2017, the venture touted its Fyre Festival in Hamilton, Bahamas, as a luxury event, but it was fraudulent, [77] disappointing hundreds of ticket-buyers. [78] Rule and McFarland faced a $100 million class action suit. [79]
Jerry Media promoted the failed Fyre Festival on its social media accounts. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Along with Vice , it co-produced Fyre , a documentary about the festival that was released worldwide via Netflix on January 18, 2019, four days after Hulu released Fyre Fraud .