As the investigation of Fyre Festival continues, it’s been revealed that founder Billy McFarland will be putting official merchandise up for auction in order to try and foot financial damages.
Billy McFarland was sentenced to six years in prison, having pleaded guilty to three counts of wire fraud, one count of making false claims and one count of bank fraud. The luxury festival on a private island in the Bahamas descended into chaos after attendees turned up to what looked like a half-finished building site.
“We have an assortment of the ‘real thing’ Fyre Festival-branded tee-shirts, sweatpants, sweatshirts, hats, wristbands and medallions,” a spokesman for the United States Marshals Service’s Manhattan office told Vulture. “We know that there is tremendous interest in these items in the NY metro area in particular.”
In January, Netflix released Fyre: a documentary which they described as “a first-hand look into the disastrous crash of Fyre as told by the organizers themselves.”
The festival, which was promoted by Ja Rule and the now-incarcerated Billy McFarland, sold tickets costing between $4,000 and $15,000 and had the backing of A-List celebrities such as Bella Hadid and Kendal Jenner.
Billy now owes approximately $26 million to the thousands of people who showed up to the “festival”.
