Fyre Festival 2 will take place in the Caribbean next year, Billy McFarland says.
All ticket sale revenue will be held in escrow until the final date is announced, McFarland said, adding that he plans to hold pop-up events around the world in the meantime.to scheming thousands of people out of money from the Fyre Festival. He was later sentenced to six years in federal prison for defrauding investors.
The calamitous festival was the subject of two documentaries: Netflix's "Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened" and Hulu's "Fyre Fraud."McFarland unsuccessfully tried to get released from an Ohio prison in August of 2020 due to COVID-19 conditions in the facility.
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