The second iteration of the 2017 festival gone wrong was slated to take place May 30-June 2 Theo Wargo/Getty Billy McFarland is onto a new business venture. On Wednesday, April 23, the founder of ...

By Dave Brooks Billy McFarland says he’s ready to sell Fyre Festival 2 to the highest bidder. Earlier today, the convicted fraudster took to social media to post a mea culpa about his failures ...

The post Billy McFarland’s Fyre Fest 2 Permit Only Allows for a 12-Hour Listening Party with 250 People appeared first on Consequence. “All media reports suggesting our team has not been ...

Back in 2017, the infamous Fyre Festival made headlines for all the wrong reasons when what promised to be a high-end festival experience ended in disaster, landing founder Billy McFarland in ...

This past Friday (April 4), McFarland took to both his Instagram account and Fyre Festival’s Instagram account to affirm that the event is happening in Playa Del Carmen (which became the new ...

Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland has taken to social media to respond to reports about his upcoming festival after city officials in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, said that Fyre Festival II will ...

While McFarland all but fired the team after the festival's demise, Deng came out OK: she went on to work for several large companies including Nike, according to her Linkedin page. The software ...

Billy McFarland is attempting to launch the second iteration of the disastrous 2017 Fyre Festival. (Patrick McMullan via Getty Images) ...

Billy McFarland faces renewed scrutiny as Mexican officials distance themselves from his controversial festival revival. Billy McFarland promised paradise and luxury on Mexico’s Isla Mujeres but ...

Second time's the charm. Or so says Billy McFarland, creator of the disastrous 2017 Fyre Festival, which scammed people out of thousands of dollars and landed McFarland six years of prison time ...

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Lostnights did not immediately respond for comment about working with McFarland when contacted by USA TODAY on Monday. Deemed by Vanity Fair as the "poster boy for millennial scamming," William ...