The story of the 2017 debacle, in which a music festival fell apart due to the incompetence of the people running it, will be told\u2026<\/b>
\nThe story of the 2017 debacle, in which a music festival fell apart due to the incompetence of the people running it, will be told on the streaming service.
The Fyre Festival, a planned music festival in the Bahamas that was scheduled to take place back in the spring of 2017, collapsed amid the organizers\u2019 inability to put it together as well as instances of outright fraud. This resulted in a six-year federal prison sentence for one of the organizers as well as various forms of infamy for others involved, including rapper Ja Rule.
The Fyre Festival, meant to promote a music booking app called Fyre, was billed as a \u201cluxury\u201d music festival scheduled to take place over two weekends in March and April of 2017 on an island in the Bahamas, with headliners including Blink-182, Migos, and Disclosure. It was clear prior to the event that things were not shaping up properly, but the organizers pushed ahead anyway. Famously, when the idea was floated of postponing the festival, one organizer said during a pre-festival meeting, \u201clet\u2019s just do it and be legends, man,\u201d a slogan which would later end up on T-shirts.
But once the festival began, it was clear that the luxurious accommodations promised had not materialized, leaving attendees to sleep in tents and eat boxed lunches, and none of the acts ended up showing. Then, once the festival was postponed, attendees were unable to leave, as flights had been grounded.
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The debacle led to numerous lawsuits as well as multiple criminal investigations; organizer Billy McFarland later pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and was ordered to make restitution of $26 million in addition to his six-year prison sentence. McFarland and his partners later also settled SEC charges.<\/p>\n