Fyre Festival was probably always doomed to be a catastrophe. The proposed 2017 concert on a private island in the Bahamas set a new bar for scams primarily because of the massive divergence between ...

They’re living in a world of pure imagination. The organizers behind the recent, disastrous Willy Wonka-themed event in Scotland have some explaining to do — and Billy McFarland wants to offer his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Models Elsa Hosk, Emily Ratajkowski, Bella Hadid, Lais Ribeiro, Gizele Oliveira and Rose Bertram helped promote the original Fyre ...

Plans for Fyre Festival 2 went up in smoke Wednesday after its creator, Billy McFarland, revealed he was putting the Fyre brand up for sale, effectively canceling the doomed music event. News of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Billy McFarland, the promoter behind the infamous Fyre Festival, seeks to distance himself from the event as its current iteration ...

Watch: Fyre Festival's Billy McFarland Claps Back After City Officials Say He Has No Permit for New Concert Billy McFarland has a fiery response to those who say Fyre Festival 2 isn’t happening.

After months of setbacks, convicted fraudster Billy McFarland has officially decided to cancel the second (and somewhat first) edition of Fyre Festival. Originally, the festival was set to take over ...

The streaming service, which became popular in the 2000s, paid $245,000 for the festival naming rights. It’s unclear what exactly it plans to do with the embattled brand. By Sopan Deb Get ready for a ...

Fyre Festival's long, strange journey will continue later this year as the festival will pivot to a pop-up Caribbean Island adventure week as the brand spins off into new opportunities. Set for the ...

Things are changing rapidly within the world of Billy McFarland's Fyre Fest scam. In a note posted to the Fyre Fest Instagram page today, McFarland says he's found "the ideal location" for the ...

Billy McFarland – the founder of the fraudulent Fyre Festival – has followed through on his promise to announce a follow-up to the 2017 festival. "Fyre Festival II tickets are officially on sale," ...

The first Fyre Festival is one of the most well-chronicled sagas of the past decade, a luxury weekend of music and good times with beautiful people (and Blink-182) that ended up being more akin to ...