Billy McFarland, the mastermind behind the disastrous Fyre Festival, managed to launch the PHYNX music festival, but experienced a series of hiccups along the way. McFarland, who served a four-year ...

The infamous Fyre Festival appears to finally be happening after two disastrous tries — and this time there will actually be music. Taika Waititi and Rita Ora are among the producers of Fyre Fest The ...

The organizer of the infamous 2017 Fyre Festival, Billy McFarland, held a small music festival in Honduras in early December that was framed as a “comeback” for the convicted fraudster. The main ...

They said it couldn’t be done, but this weekend, Billy McFarland did the impossible: He threw a music festival that, by all accounts, went off more or less as advertised. Granted, it wasn’t advertised ...

Oscar-winning director Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit, Thor: Love and Thunder) is set to produce a New York-bound stage musical-comedy about the ill-fated Fyre Festival and its creator Billy McFarland, ...

Billy McFarland is trying once again to pull off a new festival 8 years after his failed Fyre Festival. McFarland, who served prison time for wire fraud and owes his victims millions, has long talked ...

The streaming service, which became popular in the 2000s, paid $245,000 for the festival naming rights. It’s unclear what exactly it plans to do with the embattled brand. By Sopan Deb Billy McFarland, ...