Fyre Fest II tickets are allegedly selling out — despite no lineup or venue – National

rewrite this content and keep HTML tags If FEMA tents and cold cheese sandwiches are your idea of fun, Fyre Festival II might be right up your alley. Billy McFarland, the fraudster creator of the infamous failed Fyre Festival, has announced he is already selling tickets to the event’s second try.Despite there being no official date, musical line-up or even a location — save for the fact Fyre Festival II will apparently take place “in the Caribbean” — the first 100 tickets have allegedly already sold out. The tickets were priced at US$499 (more than C$575) each. The event is expected to take place at “the end of 2024,” according to the festival’s website.In a video posted to social media on Sunday, McFarland said he developed a 50-page plan for the festival during a stint in solitary confinement. McFarland was placed in solitary confinement in 2020 after he participated in a podcast and discussed his crimes while in prison. Story continues below advertisement McFarland served nearly four years in prison on fraud-related charges to do with the initial Fyre Festival in 2017.“It has been the absolute wildest journey to get here, and it really all started during a seventh-month stint in solitary confinement,” McFarland said in the announcement. He appeared wearing AirPods and a white bathrobe in the close-up video.“I wrote out this 50-page plan of how it would take this overall interest and demand in Fyre and how it would take my ability bring people from around the world together to make the impossible happen.”FYRE Festival II is LIVE🔗 in bio pic.twitter.com/3LMEhCUVaC— Billy McFarland (@pyrtbilly) August 20, 2023The Fyre Festival II website advertises six other upcoming ticket pre-sales, with prices ranging from US$799 (almost C$1,080) to US$7,999 (about C$10,845). Story continues below advertisement On Tuesday, McFarland claimed the first 100 Fyre Festival II tickets had been purchased.“FYRE is about people from the around the world coming together to pull off the impossible,” McFarland wrote. “This time we have incredible support. I’ll be doing what I love while working with the best logistical and infrastructure partners.”McFarland said all ticket sale revenue will be held in escrow until the date of Fyre Festival is announced.The first FYRE Festival II drop has sold out. Since 2016 FYRE has been the most talked about festival in the world. We now saw this convert to one of the highest priced GA pre-sales in the industry. FYRE is about people from the around the world coming together to pull off…— Billy McFarland (@pyrtbilly) August 22, 2023McFarland first announced the return of Fyre Festival in April, nearly one year after he was released from prison in May 2022. He was jailed after he pleaded guilty in 2018 to defrauding about 80 festival investors. Story continues below advertisement 🔥 Fyre Festival II is finally happening.Tell me why you should be invited.— Billy McFarland (@pyrtbilly) April 10, 2023Originally marketed as a two-weekend-long luxury music festival on the island of Great Exuma in the Bahamas, Fyre Festival and McFarland were outed as frauds when festivalgoers were met with less than suitable conditions in 2017.Upon arrival, the 5,000 ticketholders were told all of the festival’s headlining musicians had already pulled out of the lineup. The gourmet food they’d been promised turned into below-subpar cheese sandwiches and the luxury accommodation was revealed to be FEMA disaster tents. A tweet showing the cheese sandwiches served to Fyre Festival attendees in 2017. Netflix / courtesy Everett Collection The festival was co-founded and marketed by rapper Ja Rule, who had influencers like Kendall Jenner, Emily Ratajkowski and Hailey Bieber promote the event. (Ja Rule later said he was also scammed by McFarland and was subsequently dismissed from a US$100-million class-action lawsuit.) Story continues below advertisement 1:13 Fyre Festival descends into chaos, frustration, leaving rich festival-goers angry Previous Video Next Video As part of his 2018 prison sentence, McFarland was ordered to pay back the US$26 million he’d defrauded from investors.Both McFarland and Ja Rule have publicly apologized for the disastrous 2017 Fyre Festival.On top of launching Fyre Festival II, McFarland also claimed to have a documentary and a Broadway musical about Fyre Festival currently in the works — exactly what everyone is clamouring for. Trending Now Video captures moment German theme park attraction collapses, injuring 7 Bruce Willis’ wife gives tearful update amid his dementia battle On social media, folks couldn’t resist poking fun at McFarland and Fyre Festival II, with many voicing warranted concerns that the second event could also be a scam.NBC News reporter Mike Sington said the launch of Fyre Festival II “just proves there’s a sucker born every minute.”Convicted fraudster Billy McFarland is out of prison and selling tickets to Fyre Festival II, which just proves there’s a sucker born every minute. pic.twitter.com/KQhJ2PFkSO— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) August 22, 2023 Story continues below advertisement ..they’re selling tickets for the Fyre Festival again. pic.twitter.com/cCgD0b5L3G— thong song enthusiast. (@thePLAINESTjane) August 22, 2023I heard Fyre Festival 2 will be under the ocean in very exclusive experimental submarines next to the Titanic— M Gla (@maigla) August 22, 2023 Story continues below advertisement The difference between Fyre Festival 1 and Fyre Festival II is that if you went to 1 there was a slight chance people might have felt bad for you once it all went pear shaped— Pete Evans (@p_evans) August 22, 2023Billy McFarland coming up with the idea for “Fyre Festival: The Musical” pic.twitter.com/78TygnquX8— Wait in the Wings (@WaitWings) August 22, 2023 Story continues below advertisement 4:11 The lessons marketers are learning from the Fyre Festival fail Previous Video Next Video &copy 2023 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.

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