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Fyre Festival Ticket Holders Win $2 Million Compensation
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Hundreds Of Fyre Festival Ticket Holders Poised To Win Payout In Class-Action Suit
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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. Al
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Stewart Perrie
2:48 AM, April 16 2021 GMT+1
People who attended the absolute horror show that was Fyre Festival are in for a massive pay day.
Nearly four years after hundreds of people flew to a tropical island in the Bahamas to hear the likes of Migos, Disclosure, Blink-182, Major Lazer belt out some bangers, attendees have finally won.
A class action lawsuit has has been successful in getting compensation for all the attendees who signed up.
The 277 people who joined the lawsuit will now get $7,200 each.
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The settlement was filed in US Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York and means everyone who got to witness