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Fyre Festival lawsuit settled with Blink-182 and Major Lazer

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Blink-182 and Major Lazer has been settled.According to Billboard, Gregory Messer, the trustee overseeing the $26 million (£27.7 million) bankruptcy of jailed organiser Billy McFarland’s Fyre Media, has collected $360,000 (£277,880) of the $2.8 million (£2.2 million) paid to artists that were set to play at the disastrous 2017 festival.It comes after Messer filed 14 lawsuits last December in a bid to reclaim money on the $14.4 million (£10.9 million) that Fyre Media and McFarland paid to various parties when organising the festival.Creative Artist Agency received $585,000 (£451,550) from Fyre Festival, $500,000 (£424,540) of which was paid to Blink-182, and have returned $135,000 (£104,200) in total.Paradigm artists, including Major Lazer.

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