Fyre Festival fraudster announces major career move amid second act controversy

Billy McFarland creator of the failed Fyre Festival music event on Wednesday revealed that he is selling the Fyre brand after attempting to organize Fyre Festival in Mexico between May and June McFarland spent several years in prison after failing to deliver what he promised would be a luxury music festival with big-name acts in the Bahamas ultimately defrauding investors out of million and scamming event ticketholders and staff out of thousands of dollars when they manifested up to a glorified campsite with no entertainment FYRE is one of the preponderance powerful attention engines in the world McFarland wrote in a Wednesday report posted to Fyre Festival's Instagram Since FYRE has dominated headlines documentaries and conversations as one of the bulk talked-about music festivals We knew FYRE was big but we didn't realize just how massive the wave would become That wave brought us here to a point where we know it's time to call for assistance McFarland added that the Fyre brand deserves a squad with the scale experience and infrastructure to realize its full prospective FYRE FESTIVAL FRAUDSTER'S MEXICO MUSIC EVENT RAISES RED FLAGS ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA FADS FORMER DESIGNER WARNS We have decided the best way to accomplish our goals is to sell the FYRE Festival brand including its trademarks IP digital assets media reach and cultural capital to an operator that can fully realize its vision McFarland wrote The announcement comes just weeks before Fyre Festival was set to take place in Mexico first in Isla Mujeres and then Playa del Carmen following what appeared to be miscommunication between the respective city governments and Fyre organizers FYRE FESTIVAL POSTPONED AFTER MEXICO PLANS DERAILED TICKET VENDOR ISSUES REFUNDSThe festival has since been postponed though Fyre organizers never declared the postponement on their website or social media Rather Fyre's partners proven to Fox News Digital and other outlets that the event had been paused and tickets refunded Earlier this month Fyre Festival organizers fired back at Playa del Carmen's announcement saying the Mexican city's leadership had no knowledge of the event FYRE FEST FRAUDSTER'S REDO LOOKS LIKE NEW ACCIDENT FOR TROPICAL MUSIC BASH EXPERT FYRE has been working directly with the cabinet of Playa del Carmen PDC and their executives since March to ensure a safe and effective event organizers disclosed All media reports suggesting our club has not been working with the cabinet of PDC are merely inaccurate and based on misinformation the declaration read FYRE has operated as a good partner with PDC regime and has followed the proper processes and procedures to lawfully host an event FYRE FESTIVAL ORGANIZERS PROMISE THRIVING MEXICO EVENT AFTER OFFICIALS' CONCERNING ADVISORYMcFarland also posted a video of a press conference he and his group held in Playa del Carmen on March which included executive representatives from the area But Playa del Carmen posted its own comment to social media saying i n response to rumors about a supposed event called Fyre we inform you that no event of that name will be held in Playa del Carmen FYRE FEST FRAUDSTER'S REDO LOOKS LIKE NEW CATASTROPHE FOR TROPICAL MUSIC BASH EXPERTIt was the second announcement from a ruling body entity denying the festival's existence since March The event was originally scheduled to take place in Isla Mujeres Mexico between those dates but it in the last few days moved to Playa del Carmen Mexico after Isla Mujeres mentioned Fyre Festival organizers had not requested permits in the popular vacation town Tickets for Fyre Festival started at per person for general admission and went up from there The majority expensive tickets were selling for more than million and offered private air and yacht trip luxury villa accommodations and festival access over four days to eight people FYRE FEST FRAUDSTER SELLING TICKETS FOR NEW PARTY BUT LOCALS CLAIM IT DOESN'T EXISTAfter the Fyre Festival's failure it went viral on social media when Hulu and Netflix published documentaries about the failed beach bash making the fyrefraud hashtag go viral at the time The festival reached a settlement with ticket holders in when it was ordered to pay each recipient an award of