The ex-con impresario claims tickets for a sequel to the original festival that wasn’t are selling like crazy.
and sent him to prison for four years. Rolle says she worked nonstop to deliver 1,000 meals a day to guests at the doomed festival but was never paid for her work—or the work of employees she compensated out of her own savings. Rolle previously toldthat festival organizers owed her $134,000, and that she spent $50,000 of her own money on expenses.
“Guys, this is your chance to get in,” McFarland said in a YouTube video announcing the first drop of 100 tickets at $499 a pop. “This is everything we’ve been working towards. Let’s f***ing go.” The event’s website claims the tickets sold out within a day, which if true just proves P.T. Barnum was right. But Rolle warned customers and business owners not to be fooled by the fraudster’s savvy marketing.
“I would hope people learn from our mistakes,” she added. “We were the guinea pigs, and I don’t want this for nobody else … We paid the ultimate price here in the Bahamas.” Rolle says she hasn’t seen any of the money she says McFarland’s company owes her. A GoFundMe page she started after her story was featured in a Fyre Festival documentary has raised more than $240,000, about half of which Rolle toldBilly McFarland, organizer of the Fyre Festival, exits the U.S. Federal Court in Manhattan following his presentment on wire fraud charges.
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