A group of 277 attendees at the notorious Fyre festival are to receive settlement payouts of $7,220 each, according to the latest lawsuit ruling, at the US bankruptcy court in New York. The 2017 event drew global attention after the supposedly luxury music experience, promoted by supermodels and set to feature artists such as Major Lazer and Migos, turned out to resemble a disaster relief camp with windswept tents and decidedly non-gourmet food. Attendees had spent between $1,000 and $12,000 on tickets to the festival, which was cancelled on its opening day. Organiser Billy McFarland was sentenced to six years in prison for fraud in October 2018, The Verge reports.

Ja Rule has teamed up with photographer Trevor DeHaas to sell the infamous cheese sandwich tweet from the ill-fated Fyre Festival as an NFT (non-fungible token), for an estimated price of $80,000. Tickets for the luxurious festival in the Bahamas ranged from between $4,000 to $12,000, however, the audiences that reached the island only got - the meagre snack. The Flipkick listing describes the tweet as a “Meme. Cultural touchstone. Cheese sandwich... The most iconic image from 2017’s most famous debacle". All proceeds are going towards the medical expenses for DeHaas’ daily dialysis and kidney transplant. Ja Rule recently sold his Fyre Festival logo oil painting in NFT for $122,000.

Ja Rule sold a non-fungible token, or NFT, of a painting of the ill-fated Fyre Festival logo for $122,000. The rapper told Forbes (via Complex) that he decided to sell the oil painting of the doomed festival's logo - which had been hanging in the festival's New York office while it was being planned - because he "just wanted that energy out". The artwork was accompanied by a handwritten note from Ja Rule which read "F**k this painting".

Billy McFarland is serving a six-year prison sentence for wire fraud in relation to his ill-fated April 2017 Bahamas-based music Fyre Festival, and he is starting a new endeavor from inside prison: crowd-funding money for other inmates to be able to call their loved ones during these trying times. As he's told the New York Post, he hopes his initiative called Project-315 ($3.15 is the standard cost for a 15-minute prison phone call) will bring together and connect in-need inmates and their families who are affected by coronavirus by paying for calls "for as many incarcerated people across the country as possible". He swears it's no scam - “All the money that’s coming in is going directly to the initiative. I’m not on any of the bank accounts or documents and I don’t have access to any of the funds”.

A luxury festival VestiVille - with Ja Rule! - was supposed to take place last this weekend, in Kristalpark, Lommel, Belgium, but it was cancelled. The bill boasted appearances from Ashanti, Cardi B, Future, A$AP Rocky, Migos, Meek Mill, and a promotional video for the fest, featuring a terrible Cardi B impersonator, promised guests luxury […]

Fyre Fest merchandise is being auctioned to pay back part of the $26 million debt accrued by the event's founder Billy McFarland. "We have an assortment of the ‘real thing’ Fyre Festival-branded tee-shirts, sweatpants, sweatshirts, hats, wristbands and medallions,” stated a spokesman for the United States Marshals Service’s Manhattan office. “We know that there is […]

When asked by TMZ if he would ever consider staging a second Fyre Festival, New York rapper Ja Rule kept the door wide open: "In the midst of chaos is opportunity. I’m working on a lot of new things". He went on to call Fyre Fest “the most iconic festival that never was”, before slyly adding, […]

A brilliant mash-up of 'Fyre' documentary and Steven Spielberg's 'Jurassic Park', about the ill-fated luxurious festival, has arrived online. While keeping to the documentary format of 'Fyre', the trailer for 'Jurassic Fraud' sees John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) assuming the role of infamous Fyre founder Billy McFarland. As well as featuring footage from Jurassic Park, the Nerdist creation is cleverly interspersed with mocked-up […]

You want to have a major, upscale festival in the Exuma Cays? It wasn't just "on the boundaries of the impossible", as they advertised. It's impossible, I told them. It was clear they had no clue what they were doing. Worse: they had no idea where they were. With the right expectations, Fyre Festival could […]

Two agencies representing supermodels Bella Hadid, Hailey Bieber and Emily Ratajkowski might soon be forced to reveal details about the payments they received from convicted fraudster Billy McFarland for the failed 2017 Fyre Festival. A subpoena is also expected for model and influencer Kendall Jenner as part of a broad effort to understand what happened to $11.3 million paid out by McFarland in the weeks and months leading […]