I heard a lot about the Fyre Festival documentary but I did not have the chance to watch it till yesterday, LOL it was a mess I never thought that would be the way it ended up, to those who don’t know what I am talking about I will explain in details what is Fyre Festival and what exactly happened there.
Fyre Festival is a music festival organized by Billy McFarland who is the founder and CEO of Fyre Media Inc and his partner the rapper Ja Rule, the reason behind the mess festival as I call it was to promote for an app called Fyre app which was made to book famous artists.
They put so much hype on it and choose an island called Bohamian situated in Great Exuma and they claim that it was Pablo Escobar’s island but latter the property owner showed up and messed up everything especially after the huge promotion they made on social media and TV channels, they also used internet influencers and flew dozens of famous models to the island in order to promote for the event among them Justin Bieber’s wife Hailey Rhode, Bella Hadid, Kendall Jenner from the famous Kardashian family, Emily Ratajkowski, Hailey Baldwin, Elsa Hosk, Hannah Ferguson and so many more…but, things don’t always go as they’re planned.
After the island’s owner refused to let them make the festival in his property they were obliged to move to another location where the event start facing so many problems related to accommodation, famous singers who refused to attend , security, and food that they promise they will provide. Instead of luxury villas and gourmet meals the festival attendees who paid thousands of dollars received sandwiches and shared tents as their accommodation HAHAHA.
As a result of all this mess Billy McFarland and his team members start sneaking out one after another out of the island leaving behind them a huge mess and unpaid local workers.
They were charged with at least 9 lawsuits seeking more than $100 million dollars in damages. But the story did not end there they kept their criminal deception after,by benefiting from the emails and personal information of the festival attendees trying to sell them fake VIP tickets for some special events, but the court stopped them after and charged the fraudster Billy and his company for 8 lawsuit.
The documentary says all and shows everything from start to finish I highly recommend it to watch.