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Fyre Festival was a failed, fraudulently marketed luxury music festival founded by Billy McFarland, CEO of Fyre Media Inc, and rapper Ja Rule. It was created with the intent of promoting the company's Fyre app for booking music talent. The festival was scheduled to take place on April 28–30 and May 5–7, 2017, on the Bahamian island of Great Exuma .
Fyre Festival: How a 25-year-old scammed investors out of $26 million
Fyre Festival promised a "transformative" experience that thousands of attendees paid hundreds, even thousands, of dollars to be a part of. But the FBI says the 2017 event's organizer was a "serial fraudster" who scammed investors out of millions.
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