He spent four years in prison after the Fright Horror Festival, and now Billy McFarland is selling tickets for the second edition

The original festival, also hosted by Billy McFarland, was scheduled to take place in the Bahamas in 2017, but caused more than $26 million in debt when it was canceled due to inadequate accommodations, food and water.

With the help of influencers like Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid, Fyre has been marketed to the general public as a luxury festival. A ticket to the festival costs thousands of dollars. But this will be more than worth it, because “Fire Festival will push the boundaries of the impossible with the best art, music and gourmet cuisine”.

But when the festival-goers arrived, they faced an unpleasant surprise: In fact, their luxury accommodations in the Caribbean was a rain-soaked camp filled with emergency tents used for disaster relief. What could have been a delicacy turned out to be cheese sandwiches available in takeaway containers.

Debts

Many of the organizations participating in the American Festival were not paid and many restaurants and catering companies went into debt after the Fyre. After being found guilty of fraud, McFarland was sentenced to six years in prison.

The scammer has been free again since last year. So far he’s been busy planning to revive the Fyre Festival, which was once a doomed project. He says he came to this during a period of solitary confinement.

“I wrote a 50-page plan with the following central questions,” McFarland says in a TikTok video. “How can I put Fyre back on the map? How can I bring together people from around the world to make the impossible possible? How can I find the best partners in the world to work with and take Fyre’s vision to the next level.”

The first 100 tickets for the festival are now on sale at $500 each. Prices will rise as more tickets are sold. Other tickets, which have not yet been released, cost between $800 and $8,000 ($737 and $7,373).

McFarland also previously announced plans to stage a Broadway musical around the festival.