The opportunistic businessman Billy McFarland attempted in 2017 to stack a luxurious music festival at the legs of the island of Great Exuma in the Bahamas, but it all ended in a gigantic failure.
He is now incarcerated with a six-year jail sentence for fraud.
Billy McFarland, the kingpin behind the scandal hit Guys festival, now sits in prison.
But in spite of the massive failure, one of the creators behind the rapper Ja Rule, now ready to give the arrangement a second chance.
– in the Midst of chaos, there are opportunities. I’m working on a lot of new things.
– It is the most iconic festival, which never took place. So I have plans to create the most iconic music festival, but it was not from me, says the rapper to the medium and the TMZ.
Ja Rule hit in 2001, along with singer Ashanti with the song “Always on Time”, which rose to the top of the us Billboard chart for two weeks.
– It is the most iconic festival, which never took place. So I have plans to create the most iconic music festival, but it was not from me, says the rapper to the medium and the TMZ.
Since then, he has been a contractor and are trying right now to create a new app, where you can book artists to perform.
the App could also be seen in development in the documentary “Guys” on Netflix, with footage from the festival itself, and the weeks leading up to the shows, how McFarland is able to forward to the creation of the festival.
Yes, the Rule has not yet even seen the Netflix documentary. He calls the whole experience “heart-breaking”.
– I know that it is popular. Maybe I will see it one day. But I saw it. I don’t need to see it.
– It is not fun for me. It was heart-breaking. I wanted the festival to be special and amazing, but it was not successful, he says.
Guests to the Fire Festival rev in 2017 the tickets away in a few days and paid up to 90,000 dollars for them. In particular, they were promised access to the island by private jets and gourmetforplejning during your stay.
Artists like Disclosure, Major Lazer, Pusha T and Blink 182 was on the poster, but not a single artist took the stage, which, incidentally, was not færdigopstillet, since a large rain stopped work, the day before the guests landed on the island.
They have been promised luxury suites, which instead turned out to be survivors nødhjælpstelte and the food was a piece of toast. There was also no water.
Supermodellerne Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid had, among other things, against payment advertised for the festival on the social media Instagram. The informed just never about that it was an advertisement.
Two of the guests at the festival, Seth Crossno and Mark Thompson, have each been awarded 2.5 million dollars, 16 million dollars – in compensation.