Fyre Showbiz and Celebrity Breaking News

Ja Rule has reportedly sold his Fyre Festival logo oil painting in NFT form (non-fungible token) for £88,640 (US$122,000).As reported by Consequence of Sound, the rapper has sold the 48″ by 60″ oil painting that had been hanging in the festival’s New York office during the planning stages.

Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland has admitted that he lied to investors who pumped millions of dollars into the infamous Bahamas event.McFarland made the bold admission in an unauthorised interview from behind bars with radio host Jordan Harbinger for the Dumpster Fyre podcast – which has landed him in solitary confinement.McFarland is currently serving a six-year sentence at the Federal Correction Institution in Elkton, Ohio after pleading guilty to multiple counts of fraud, including for

Jailed Fyre Festival organizer Billy McFarland is speaking about the ill-fated 2017 bash that led him to six years in federal prison for defrauding investors of $27.4 million.

Fyre Festival could’ve been criminally fun. In a new jailhouse interview, incarcerated party organizer Billy McFarland admitted that he lied to the investors who put millions into funding his notorious 2017 luxury retreat failure — but blamed an impossible timeline for the scam he’s now doing time for co-organizing. “I think the biggest mistake before I went awry was just setting an unrealistic time frame for the festival,” McFarland, 29, told Jordan Harbinger in an unsanctioned interview which

ill-fated Fyre Festival, Billy McFarland, is giving his first interview from prison.The Fyre Festival made headlines in April 2017 when hundreds of festival-goers — who paid up to $100,000 for tickets and were promised gourmet food and accommodations — were left stranded on the island after arriving to an unfinished site and a lack of food and staffing, which quickly turned into chaos.

had to use the torch on their phones to safely navigate the park. Organisers say they were experiencing technical difficulties on their opening night, leading to some lanterns being left unlit.They have apologised and promised that refunds or rebooking will be offered to those who missed out on the full experience.

Dumpster Fyre.McFarland is currently serving a six-year sentence at the Federal Correction Institution in Elkton, Ohio after pleading guilty to multiple counts of fraud, including for the disastrous festival in the Bahamas in 2017.As The Daily Mail reports, the upcoming podcast was made by recording various 15-minute phone calls conducted over the course of one week, in which McFarland detailed his involvement with Fyre Festival.The first instalment of Dumpster Fyre, which was produced in

Daily Mail, you can hear Billy saying: ‘This is inmate number 911860054, otherwise known as Billy McFarland, the founder of Fyre Festival.‘I’m not going to hide behind my mistakes, I’m going to share everything that happened.’  A post shared by Billy McFarland (@billy_mcfarland) on Oct 14, 2020 at 11:24am PDTThe podcast was recorded through a series of phone interviews from his prison cell where he’s serving a six year sentence for conning people out of millions and McFarland hopes it will help

US music publisher Reach Music has announced a deal to acquire the publishing catalogue and worldwide administration rights of writer/producer Young Fyre, a regular collaborator with T-Pain who has also made music with the likes of Marc Anthony, Bad Bunny, Trinidad James, Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Britney Spears and Lil Wayne.Reach Music previously administrated the producer’s rights via an alliance with T-Pain’s Nappy Boy Entertainment, and says it was given the opportunity to acquire “the full

Blink-182 and Major Lazer has been settled.According to Billboard, Gregory Messer, the trustee overseeing the $26 million (£27.7 million) bankruptcy of jailed organiser Billy McFarland’s Fyre Media, has collected $360,000 (£277,880) of the $2.8 million (£2.2 million) paid to artists that were set to play at the disastrous 2017 festival.It comes after Messer filed 14 lawsuits last December in a bid to reclaim money on the $14.4 million (£10.9 million) that Fyre Media and McFarland paid to various

Y’all can’t blame Ja Rule for this one!

Years later and the doomed Fyre Festival is still in the entertainment news headlines. Hot New Hip Hop said today that the US Marshals Service recently announced a selling off of a big batch of merchandise related to the ill-fated festival to help some of the victims.

More than three years after the highly publicized Fyre Festival famously fizzled out in the Bahamas, merchandise and other “minor assets” are up for sale — courtesy of the U.S. Marshals Service.

ill-fated Fyre Festival is now up for sale at a Texas auction house.

Ja Rule and the now-incarcerated Billy McFarland (who was sentenced to six years in prison for fraud in 2018), made headlines across the world after its inaugural event in The Bahamas was cancelled following a series of serious organisational and logistical problems.Speaking about the money-raising big, U.S.

Andy King, the media darling who became a massive star due to the success of Netflix’s Fyre Festival documentary, Fyre, recently got a new boyfriend who is a whopping 32 years younger than him. Page Six picked up on the news today.

Fyre documentary."King became a viral sensation after the premiere of Fyre, Netflix's documentary charting the rise and fall of the doomed music festival created by Billy McFarland.

Andy King gained fame after his appearance in the Netflix documentary Fyre and now he has made things Instagram official with his boyfriend!

Thrive Philanthropy’s Connect Summit was originally charging people thousands to see their favorite stars speak.

Kendall Jenner has reached a settlement in a lawsuit stemming from the disastrous Fyre Festival. The model and Keeping Up With The Kardashians star was among a raft of social media influencers and models recruited by the organizers of the festival to promote what turned out to be fiasco of e

It’s time to pay the piper!

Kendall Jenner has reportedly settled a lawsuit with the trustees of the Fyre Festival over accusations she misled her Instagram followers about the disastrous 2017 event.

When the Fyre Festival documentary arrived on Netflix, most people couldn’t actually believe it had actually happened and just how so many people were scammed.

Kendall Jenner has reportedly settled a lawsuit with the trustees of the Fyre Festival over accusations she misled her Instagram followers about the disastrous 2017 event.

Kendall Jenner has reached a settlement in a lawsuit stemming from her involvement in the Fyre Festival. 

Paying the price. Kendall Jenner has been ordered to give back some of the money she was paid for endorsing the failed Fyre Festival in 2017.

Kendall Jenner has reportedly settled a lawsuit levied against her for promoting the failed 2017 Fyre Festival in the Bahamas, which set social media ablaze at the time due to attendees being left stranded with no food or accommodations. The 24-year-old reality star and supermodel has reportedly agreed to pay $90,000 for the since-deleted Instagram photo she posted in January 2017, according to court documents filed Tuesday and obtained by Women’s Wear Daily (WWD).

Kendall Jenner will pay $90,000 to settle a lawsuit stemming from her involvement in the Fyre Festival scandal.  According to documents obtained by E! News, the supermodel agreed to pay just a fraction of the $275,000 that the event's trustee claims she was paid to promote Fyre Festival on social media in 2017. In Aug.

Kendall Jenner will be paying back a big chunk of the cash she was paid to hype the disastrous Fyre Festival to her millions of social media followers.

Chile, these folks want their money! Kendall Jenner has been ordered to pay $90,000 for her involvement with the Fyre Festival.

Kendall Jenner has been ordered to pay a big amount in the Fyre Festival lawsuit.

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The Room Service Festival will go down on Fyre Fest's third anniversary

Andy King -- the breakout star of Netflix's Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened -- announced on Wednesday (April 22) that he'll be hosting this weekend's upcoming Room Service Music Festival.

Imprisoned Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland has reportedly petitioned for an early prison release, citing his health concerns amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland is reportedly begging a judge to release him from prison early because he's at a higher risk of catching the novel coronavirus due to pre-existing health conditions. McFarland, 28, is currently serving a six-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to wire fraud in 2018.