Employees of Fyre Festival creators Ja Rule and Billy McFarland have accused the pair of ‘not caring’ about the event being doomed to fail. The unnamed former workers told Variety on Thursday that the pair refused to extend the launch date to give enough time to prepare, and were more concerned with ‘being legends’ than making a good event. That came a day after the two were slapped with a …
It’s official. Billy McFarland and Jeffrey “Ja Rule” Atkins have been slapped with a $100 million federal class action lawsuit after their luxury destination music and culture event, the Fyre Festival, was abruptly canceled early Friday morning, leaving hundreds—possibly thousands—of people stranded at airpots in Miami and the Bahamas. What’s worse is that festival passes didn’t come cheap.
The fallout from the disastrous Fyre Festival continued on Sunday (May 1) when attorney Mark Geragos (Chris Brown, Michael Jackson) filed a proposed $100 million class-action lawsuit against organizers on behalf of client Daniel Jung. The suit accuses organizers of fraud, citing the fest’s “lack of adequate food, water, shelter, and medical care created a dangerous and panicked situation among …