Fyre Festival: Ticket-holders to receive money from $2m class action settlement
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image captionThe Fyre Festival was organised by now-convicted fraudster Billy McFarland (left) and rapper Ja Rule (center)
Four years after the Fyre Festival fiasco, 277 ticket-holders could see some $7,220 (£5,226) returned, thanks to a settlement in a US federal court.
Organisers of the 2017 music event, which was billed as the cultural experience of the decade , had promised a luxury two-weekend Bahamas getaway.
Attendees arrived instead to find total chaos: no musical acts, no planning and only disaster relief tents to sleep in.
The $2m agreement reached on Tuesday must still be approved and may change.