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Fyre Festival's Billy McFarland will step into the pit for a karate match where he vows to use his winnings to pay back the $26million owed to duped festival-goers and investors
Billy McFarland has agreed to a karate combat fight against cypto influencer and fighter Alex Shillin Villain in Austin, Texas, next month.
Ticket holders, who thought they were heading to a 'luxury music festival' held on Pablo Escobar's former private island, were actually lured to a catastrophic event mired in issues with everything from food to accommodation. Guests - who paid as much as $13,000 for luxury packages - were left stranded, with unfinished shelter, no transportation, and no food aside from cheese sandwiches served out of polystyrene boxes, images of which quickly went viral. McFarland paid the likes of Kendall Jenner to promote the event on Instagram who blasted promo content to lure people into buying tickets at thousands of dollars each.
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