Fyre Festival called a ‘get-rich-quick scam’ in $100 million suit

Fyre Festival co-founders Ja Rule and Billy McFarland have been hit with a $100 million lawsuit that calls the debacle a “get-rich-quick scam from the very beginning,” court papers claim.

The disastrous Bahamas extravaganza lacked adequate food, water, shelter and medical care, creating a “dangerous and panicked situation among attendees” — who plunked down between $1,200 and $100,000 for tickets, according to the class-action suit filed Sunday in California federal court.

“Festival-goers survived on bare rations, little more than bread and a slice of cheese, and tried to escape the elements in the only shelters provided by defendants: small clusters of ‘FEMA tents,’ exposed on a sand bar, that were soaked and battered by wind rain,” the suit says, comparing the failed festival to “The Hunger Games” or “Lord of the Flies” as opposed to celeb-studded Coachella.

A source said on Monday that McFarland and the Queens-born Ja Rule, a k a Jeffrey Atkins, still owe hundreds of thousands of dollars — including customs fees for exporting items, like the staging, back to the US — and has not paid most vendors for their services.

“There are mammoth bills,” the source said. “Hundreds of thousands of bills, from everyone who was running the charter flights to the laborers and security.”

Despite knowing they were “dangerous under-equipped” and that the festival “posed a serious danger,” McFarland and Rule, whose real name is Jeffrey Atkins, allegedly still continued to promote the event and sell tickets — even billing it as being held on a private island once owned by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, the suit claims.

“The island isn’t private, as there is a Sandals resort down the road, and Pablo Escobar never owned the island,” the complaint says.

The suit also accuses McFarland and Rule of personally reaching out to A-listers in advance — Kendall Jenner, Emily Ratajkowski and Bella Hadid were among the promoters — to warn them not to attend.

Fyre Festival was only canceled on the morning of the first day “after thousands of attendees had already arrived and were stranded, without food, water, or shelter,” the suit says.

Instead of “world-class cuisine” promised, attendees allegedly received sad-looking cheese sandwiches and side salads packed in Styrofoam boxes, according to photos depicted in the lawsuit. Luxury villas were replaced with shoddy “FEMA tents” and festival staff were MIA.

Participants were also largely without cash to get around the island because the festival was promoted as a “cashless” event that allowed funds to be loaded onto wristbands instead.

The lawsuit was filed by Mark Geragos on behalf of plaintiff Daniel Jung, of Los Angeles, who bought a ticket package and airfare for $2,000.

Geragos’ former clients include Michael Jackson, Chris Brown and Winona Ryder.

The suit seeks damages in excess of $100,000 because plaintiffs’ “damages in being lured to a deserted island and left to fend for themselves — a situation tantamount to false imprisonment — exceed the face value of their ticket packages by many orders of magnitude.”

In an interview with The Post last Friday, McFarland blamed the chaotic festival conditions on a freak storm — and insisted there was “plenty of food and water” on site.

“We sent guest pictures of the tents and told them if they weren’t happy we would refund them,” McFarland said.

Rule tweeted an apology, saying he was “relieved to share that all guest [sic] are safe, and have been sent the form to apply for a refund. Our deepest apologies.”

The rapper also insisted Fyre Festival was “NOT A SCAM as everyone is reporting.”

Neither McFarland nor a Fyre rep immediately returned messages seeking comment. A rep for Ja Rule could not be reached.

Meanwhile, Hadid distanced herself from the scandal.

“Even though this was not my project what so ever, nor was I informed about the production or process of the festival in any shape or form, I do know that it has always been out of great intent and they truly wanted all of us to have the time of our lives,” the model wrote in a Twitter post. “I feel so sorry and badly because this is something I couldn’t stand by…”