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Fyre Festival investor Andy King warns of “a lot of red flags” over reboot: “Proceed with caution”

new interview with NBC News that it is locked in for April 2025.The now notorious festival went viral in 2017 for promising a luxury festival experience on a private island in the Bahamas, only for it to unfold as a logistical nightmare with accommodation, food and water issues.The festival received renewed publicity when Netflix dropped its hit documentary Fyre.The defining moment of the tell-all doc came when event producer King recalled how he was prepared to give oral sex to a customs official in exchange for allowing Evian water onto the island.King, who lost $1million (£765,250 in the original festival), has now spoken out about his doubts about Fyre’s planned return.Speaking to the BBC, King said that McFarland was “known for the biggest failure in pop culture and wants to flip the script. But I’m not sure he’s going about it the right way.”McFarland spent four years in prison on multiple counts of fraud over the event, after failing to deliver on any of the luxuries that tickets costing up to $250,000 (£191,342) promised.King said he had met McFarland a few months ago to discuss Fyre 2, but feared the disgraced businessman hadn’t “learned a lot in prison… he’s shooting from the hip again”.“Billy has a gift.
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Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland gets early release from prison
Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland has been released early from prison.McFarland was serving a six-year sentence after pleading guilty to multiple counts of fraud, including for the disastrous festival in the Bahamas in 2017.He spent six months of his sentence alone in solitary confinement after taking part in the recording of a podcast.According to TMZ, McFarland has now been released from the Milan Federal Correctional Institution in Milan, Michigan, where he was being held.He is now under the management of Residential Reentry Management New York – the administrative office overseeing halfway houses located in southern New York, eastern New York and New Jersey, according to The Hollywood Reporter.McFarland’s release date from the halfway house is currently set for August 30.Back in 2020, he requested an early release from his six-year prison sentence due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, but his request was turned down.McFarland’s release comes after Martin Shkreli, the disgraced “pharma bro” who famously bought Wu-Tang Clan‘s ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’ for $2million (£1.4m), was also released early from prison. Shkreli was serving a seven-year sentence after being found guilty of securities fraud following claims he defrauded investors in former hedge funds in 2017.
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