Billy McFarland, the fraudster who introduced you Fyre Pageant, has offered the rights to the model on eBay for $245,300. We don’t but know who the client is or what they plan to do with such cursed IP.
Fyre Pageant was a downright catastrophe. What was presupposed to be a luxurious music competition ended up stranding company on an island within the Bahamas. As a substitute of lavish villas and connoisseur meals, the competition’s clientele, which included rich millennial influencers, acquired flimsy tents and famously unappetizing cheese sandwiches.
McFarland was later convicted of economic crimes because of his function within the competition, serving about three and a half years earlier than he was launched in 2022. However McFarland has not appeared to have realized his lesson. He tried organizing a second Fyre Pageant, which was presupposed to happen this summer season in Mexico with tickets ranging between $1,400 and $1.1 million.
The second Fyre Pageant by no means occurred. Playa del Carmen, the Mexican metropolis the place McFarland stated the competition would happen, claimed that there had not been any report of planning for the occasion, which didn’t have a allow. McFarland denied this, however introduced just a few weeks later that he would promote the Fyre Pageant model.
“Since 2017, FYRE has dominated headlines, documentaries, and conversations as one of many world’s most talked-about music festivals,” McFarland wrote, failing to say that the competition garnered a lot consideration because of its colossal failure. “There’s a clear path for operators and entrepreneurs with sturdy area experience to construct FYRE into a worldwide power in leisure, media, vogue, CPG, and extra.”
The eBay public sale says {that a} portion of the sale proceeds will go towards restitution — however McFarland owes $26 million, so this $245,300 sale isn’t going to make a lot of an influence.
