Fyre Festival attendees to get $7K each after class-action settlement

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Fyre Festival attendees will receive just over $7,000 each after being stranded in the Bahamas as part of a "festival" that never occurred and also left most attendees without proper shelter or food.
The festival's organizer, Fyre Media – a company founded by the festival's mastermind Billy McFarland and rapper Ja Rule – on Tuesday settled a $2 million class-action lawsuit, The New York Times reported Thursday.
McFarland, 29, previously pleaded guilty to wire fraud and is currently serving a six-year prison sentence. He previously paid out several million to two attendees of the festival who purchased VIP experiences.
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Fyre Festival became the subject of competing Netflix and Hulu documentaries which revealed the chaotic and disorganized efforts to put the festival together on the Bahamas' Great Exuma; thousands of attendees arrived to the island expecting luxury accommodations only to find disaster tents usually used for refugees. All of the musical acts had also canceled.

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