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Scandal-hit Fyre festival is back with tickets at nearly $8,000
Event in 2017 was axed over inadequate accommodation, food and water – and landed its co-founder in jail for fraud
The original event, which in a lawsuit was likened to The Hunger Games or Lord of the Flies, was co-founded by McFarland and the rapper Ja Rule and scheduled to take place in the Bahamas in 2017. As shown in the Netflix documentary Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, organisers had used influencers such as Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid to promote the luxury event. McFarland, the former founder of the card-based membership club Magnises, was jailed in 2018 after pleading guilty to numerous fraud charges relating to the festival and his company NYC VIP Access, which sold fake tickets to events such as the Met Gala.
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