‘Fyre’ Founder Billy McFarland Drops Tickets for Fyre Festival II in the Caribbean: “This Is Your Chance to Get In”

Billy McFarland has been described as “the poster boy for millennial scamming” by Vanity Fair, “the [Bernie] Madoff of the millennials” by a lawyer representing one of his former investors, and a “crooked promoter” by Page Six. However, you certainly can’t call him a quitter.

The co-founder of the Fyre Festival — the fraudulent music festival that lured those wealthy enough to purchase a ticket to the Bahamas to experience a lavish event with a lengthy line-up of concerts … that didn’t live up to any of its expectations — announced the first roll-out of tickets for Fyre Festival II yesterday (Aug. 21), which have reportedly already sold out.

Did we learn nothing the first time around?!

“It has been the absolute wildest journey to get here and it really all started during the seven-month stint in solitary confinement,” McFarland, who spent about four years in prison after the Fyre fallout, began his Instagram update.

“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 to bring people from around the world together to make the impossible happen, but how I would find the best partners in the world to allow me to be me while executing Fyre’s vision to the highest level,” he shared.

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The original Fyre event — which according to The Guardian led to 277 attendees receiving settlements of $7,220 each — inspired two documentaries: Hulu‘s Fyre Fraud and Netflix‘s FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened. McFarland revealed that he “partnered with one of the biggest and best TV companies in the world to produce a documentary called After The Fyre,” which first made headlines in November 2022.

He also said he has worked with “one of the biggest production companies to sign a deal to produce” a Broadway musical about the festival, which according to Billboard was “tentatively titled Fyre Fest 1.5” as of May.

He had partnered with Ja Rule to co-found the first Fyre festival, but the rapper was cleared of any wrongdoing and according to People has no plans of joining forces with McFarland on his new venture.

McFarland, who was initially sentenced to six years in prison in 2018 but ultimately was released in May 2022 per Forbes, noted that the festival will be “coming back to the Caribbean” and is slated to take place at “the end of next year.”

“In the meantime, we’ll be doing pop-ups and events across the world,” he continued in his video. “Guys, this is your chance to get in. This is everything I’ve been working towards. Let’s f***ing go.”