Much is written about the american conman Billy McFarland, who is sentenced to six years in prison after he tried to arrange a luksusfestival for all of the Bahamas in 2017.
Documentary about the scandal-festival: one of the flaueste I have seen
In the recent documentary “Fire”, which discusses both the history of the McFarland and katastrofearrangementet from start to finish, viewers familiar with the local restauranteieren Maryann Role.
she tells us that She had to spend 50 000 dollars of their own savings to cover expenses related to, among other things, to prepare food for the hungry festivalarbeidere, festivalarrangører and festivalgjester.
WONDERED: Billy McFarland zones with a sentence of six years imprisonment for the attempt to arrange Before the Festival. Photo: Netflix Show more Lost all the money
With tears in her eyes describes the Role how they were on day and night. Finally she realized that they didn’t get paid for the job of the festival and thus had to pay all ekstrahjelp in the kitchen itself, as well as pay of their own pocket for materials. The money she and her husband Elvis had added to the “heavier times” was gone
Very many local workers got not paid for to work with to build the festival. In the documentary, it comes out that Billy McFarland and the other organizers fled from the island and millionkrav when they realized that their bluff was revealed.
Netflix’s war on the skandalefestival
In line with the premiere of the documentary on Netflix, put Elvis and Maryann Role up a crowdfundingkampanje, in a hope to collect some of the savings they lost.
In april 2017, we created 1000 meals each day. Breakfast, lunch and dinner was prepared and delivered by my restaurant to the places where the major events related to the festival were planned. This is embarrassing to admit, but I did not get paid, write the Role on the crowdfundingsiden Before the Party Fiasco.
Received the 1.5 million.
Many have allowed themselves to move the story to the Role and how the locals were treated by McFarland. The couple have now received 1.5 million (174 000 dollars) the money in nine days. Something they are grateful for on Facebook-page of the company they are operating on the island of Exuma in the Bahamas.
In 2017 was the “Fire Festival” an to be this year’s most glamorous event. The “new Coachella” was the festival called. On the island of Great Exuma in the Bahamas should the participants get meske themselves with gourmet food, stjerneartister and luxurious accommodations.
the Reality turned out to be a completely different. Stjerneartistene withdrew at the last minute, “villas” consisted of nothing a wet mattresses in the stusselige tent and gourmetmåltidene consisted of slices of bread with watery cheese on top. In the course of a short time could the whole world to follow on social media, where festivalgjengerne yelled out about skandalefestival, nightmares, and fraud.
Festivalhelvete that ended in a giant lawsuit and six years in prison the Newspaper Plus
