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Kendall Jenner Agrees To Pay $90K Settlement For Her Role In Promoting Disastrous Fyre Festival

Kendall Jenner Agrees To Pay $90K Settlement For Her Role In Promoting Disastrous Fyre Festival

Kendall Jenner will be paying a $90,000 settlement for her role in promoting the ill-fated Fyre Festival — an event promoted as an exclusive gathering of top models, celebrities, and musicians on an exotic island but was allegedly planned poorly, offering little of what was promised. As NBC News reported, the reality television star reached […]

3y ago

Kendall Jenner, Emily Ratajkowski & More Are Reportedly Being Sued For Their Part In Infamous Fyre Festival

Kendall Jenner, Emily Ratajkowski & More Are Reportedly Being Sued For Their Part In Infamous Fyre Festival

Kendall Jenner and Emily Ratajkowski are among some of the major names to be hit with a lawsuit following the fallout from the now-infamous Fyre Festival debacle. E! News reports that two years after rapper Ja Rule teamed up with Billy McFarland to create a festival that promised to “redefine the music festival experience,” the […]

4y ago

Fire Breaks Out At Coachella Music Festival On First Night

Fire Breaks Out At Coachella Music Festival On First Night

While many teenagers and young adults flock to California each year for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, there are plenty of detractors who enjoy mocking the festival. While heading out to the desert to indulge in music, celeb sightings, and some recreational drug use might sound like a dream come […]

5y ago

Organizers Of The Ultra Music Festival In Florida Are Apologizing After A Chaotic First Night

Organizers Of The Ultra Music Festival In Florida Are Apologizing After A Chaotic First Night

Thousands of excited people flocked to Virginia Key, Florida, on Friday night for the first night of the Ultra Music Festival. This much-anticipated festival is planned to last for three days and will include performances from a variety of big name musical artists. David Guetta, Adam Beyer, The Chainsmokers, and Zedd are just a few […]

5y ago

Ja Rule Hints At Plans To Rebrand Failed ‘Fyre Festival’ Under New Name

Ja Rule Hints At Plans To Rebrand Failed ‘Fyre Festival’ Under New Name

Ja Rule says that he hasn’t seen the two documentaries about the debacle that was the Fyre Festival, a would-be luxury music festival that was so poorly planned that attendees ended up sleeping in disaster relief tents in the Bahamas. Maybe if he had seen either doc, he wouldn’t be hinting at revamping the event […]

5y ago

There’s Something You Need To Know Before You Watch That Fyre Festival Documentary On Netflix

There’s Something You Need To Know Before You Watch That Fyre Festival Documentary On Netflix

The glitzy, Instagrammable rise and catastrophic, cheese sandwich fueled fall of Fyre Festival made for a once in a generation train wreck that so many couldn’t look away from, immortalized through two dueling documentaries just released on Netflix and Hulu. It may seem like the two streaming platforms are simply cashing in with their respective […]

5y ago

Ja Rule Finally Speaks Out About Incriminating Fyre Festival After Scathing Documentary Airs

Ja Rule Finally Speaks Out About Incriminating Fyre Festival After Scathing Documentary Airs

Last year, rapper Ja Rule found himself at the center of controversy due to the financial fiasco surrounding the infamous Fyre Festival. The luxury music event had gained such notoriety that social media users were comparing it to the ever-popular Coachella. But unfortunately, the Fyre Festival didn’t live up to the expectations. In fact, the […]

5y ago

There’s A Fyre Festival Pop-Up In LA Where You Can Experience The Failed Event For Yourself

There’s A Fyre Festival Pop-Up In LA Where You Can Experience The Failed Event For Yourself

Thanks to the Netflix and Hulu documentaries, everyone is talking about the disastrous 2017 Fyre Festival. But unless you were one of the unlucky few who got to experience it, you may be left wondering what it felt like to be there in person. Not to worry, a new pop-up installation lets you live the […]

5y ago

Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid & Other Models Ordered To Appear In Court Regarding Infamous Fyre Festival

Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid & Other Models Ordered To Appear In Court Regarding Infamous Fyre Festival

Models and influencers, including Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid, and Emily Ratajkowski, have been ordered to appear in court regarding the infamous Fyre Festival scam, the New York Post is reporting. At least five celebrities have been subpoenaed and must testify about the payments they received to promote the failed luxury weekend. According to court papers […]

5y ago

Kendall Jenner May Be Forced To Testify About $250,000 Payment From Defunct Fyre Festival For Instagram Post

Kendall Jenner May Be Forced To Testify About $250,000 Payment From Defunct Fyre Festival For Instagram Post

Top supermodels Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid, and Emily Rajatkowski may be forced to reveal under oath what happened to the money they received in connection with the ill-fated Fyre Festival, according to a report by the music industry trade publication Billboard. As previously reported by the Inquisitr, entrepreneur Billy McFarland oversaw the organization of the […]

5y ago

GoFundMe For Fyre Festival Worker Pulls In Over $150,000 For Victim Of The Failed Event

GoFundMe For Fyre Festival Worker Pulls In Over $150,000 For Victim Of The Failed Event

She was left without pay and a massive bill after a failed music festival, but things have dramatically turned around for Maryann Rolle. The Bahamian caterer was hired by the now-infamous Fyre Festival to cater the event, but when things went sour, Rolle was stuck dealing with the fallout. Now, a new GoFundMe campaign is […]

5y ago

Hulu Drops Surprise Fyre Festival Documentary Four Days Before Netflix’s Release Date

Hulu Drops Surprise Fyre Festival Documentary Four Days Before Netflix’s Release Date

Just a few days after Netflix released the first trailer for their documentary about the disastrous Fyre Festival in 2017, called Fyre: The Best Party That Never Happened, Hulu began streaming its own exposé on the same subject. The service made a surprise announcement on Monday that its in-depth look at the Fyre Festival, called […]

5y ago

New ‘Fyre’ Trailer Features Bikini-Clad Kendall Jenner And Emily Ratajkowski

New ‘Fyre’ Trailer Features Bikini-Clad Kendall Jenner And Emily Ratajkowski

Earlier this year, Netflix announced the release of an upcoming documentary that would provide a behind-the-scenes look at how the Fyre Festival, a music festival which was scheduled to take place on the Bahamian island of Great Exuma in 2017, completely unraveled and left thousands of fans dissatisfied, as previously reported by the Inquisitr. The […]

5y ago

Fyre Festival Documentary Headed To Netflix In January

Fyre Festival Documentary Headed To Netflix In January

The Fyre Festival, a planned music festival in the Bahamas that was scheduled to take place back in the spring of 2017, collapsed amid the organizers’ inability to put it together as well as instances of outright fraud. This resulted in a six-year federal prison sentence for one of the organizers as well as various […]

5y ago

Nicki Minaj Bamboozled After Allegedly Flying To China For Concert That Ended Up Being A Scam

Nicki Minaj Bamboozled After Allegedly Flying To China For Concert That Ended Up Being A Scam

After making a flight all the way to Shanghai, China, for a concert, rapper Nicki Minaj stepped off of her plane to find out the festival event she was set to perform at was apparently a total scam, Shanghaist reported. According to the news outlet, Minaj traveled to the Asian country to perform a 90-minute […]

5y ago

Fyre Festival Organizer Billy McFarland Sentenced To 6 Years In Prison

Fyre Festival Organizer Billy McFarland Sentenced To 6 Years In Prison

Billy McFarland, the organizer that put together the infamous disaster that was the Fyre Festival, was given a six-year prison sentence by a federal judge in Manhattan on Thursday, according to The New York Times. The festival was billed as a music festival in the Bahamas — but was actually a scam that led to […]

5y ago

Fyre Festival Founder Blames Fraud On Mental Illness

Fyre Festival Founder Blames Fraud On Mental Illness

The organizer of disgraced luxury music festival Fyre suffered from untreated mental illness when he defrauded investors, his lawyers have reportedly argued. Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland was experiencing an untreated bipolar-related disorder, ADHD and “severe alcohol abuse” when he defrauded investors out of $1 million, Vulture reported his lawyers as stating. This cocktail of […]

5y ago

Botched Fyre Festival Event Head Billy McFarland Pleads Guilty To Fraud

Botched Fyre Festival Event Head Billy McFarland Pleads Guilty To Fraud

Facing two counts of wire fraud charges, 26-year-old event organizer William “Billy” McFarland pleaded guilty in court earlier this week. The head of the botched Fyre Festival event last spring admitted that he defrauded his investors, which caused them significant financial losses. Each charge brings with it a maximum of 20 years in prison. McFarland […]

6y ago

Fyre Festival Founder Billy McFarland Arrested For Fraud, Released On $300,000 Bail

Fyre Festival Founder Billy McFarland Arrested For Fraud, Released On $300,000 Bail

Fyre Festival founder and Fyre Media owner Billy McFarland was arrested on Friday and charged with wire fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. The charges, related to McFarland’s organizing the Fyre Festival, allege that McFarland schemed to defraud investors. His arrest is allegedly the result of an […]

6y ago

Billy McFarland Arrested: Fyre Festival Organizer Charged With Wire Fraud, Is Ja Rule Also In Trouble?

Billy McFarland Arrested: Fyre Festival Organizer Charged With Wire Fraud, Is Ja Rule Also In Trouble?

Young entrepreneur Billy McFarland was arrested Friday at his Manhattan home and charged with one count of wire fraud in relation to his role in co-organizing the failed Fyre Festival alongside rapper Ja Rule. According to a report from the New York Times, McFarland is being accused of knowingly misrepresenting information about his company, Fyre […]

6y ago

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