Billy McFarland founded the infamous Fyre Festival, which stranded attendees in the Bahamas in 2017. In 2018, he pleaded guilty to fraud charges, one of which was connected to the festival. McFarland ...

Billy McFarland has a fiery response to those who say Fyre Festival 2 isn’t happening. Nearly two years after the Fyre Festival founder announced he was working on a follow-up to the ill-fated 2017 ...

Billy McFarland, for whatever reason, thought he could revive Fyre Fest, but now claims he is canceling the struggling music festival before attempting to make it happen. Shortly after announcing that ...

Billy McFarland is giving someone else a chance to own the rights to his infamous Fyre Festival. “I’ve done a lot of crazy things, but this might be the craziest thing yet,” McFarland, 33, said in a ...

Has Fyre Festival gone up in flames—again? Well, less than two months before the follow-up to Billy McFarland’s infamous 2017 music festival was set to begin in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, a sudden ...

LimeWire has acquired the infamous Fyre Festival brand on eBay. As we reported in July, convicted fellon and Fyre founder Billy McFarland announced that the brand and all of its IPs had been sold to a ...

This sale was not on Fyre. Billy McFarland sold the rights to his infamous Fyre Festival brand on Tuesday, but he wasn’t happy about the amount it went for. After the week-long sale involving 175 bids ...

Aspiring event planner Billy McFarland is throwing in the towel on Fyre Festival. After two failures to launch, McFarland is hoping to sell the brand he made famous — for better or worse — to another ...

Billy McFarland, the scam artist and convicted fellon who gained notoriety for the disastrous 2017 Fyre Festival, has officially sold the rights to the event’s brand on eBay for $245,300 (approx. €211 ...

In a post on Instagram, Mr. McFarland announced he was selling the Fyre brand and its “cultural capital,” a month before Fyre Festival 2 was scheduled to begin. By Ali Watkins The organizers of Fyre ...