The man who founded the famously ill-fated Fyre Festival plans to tell his story in a self-published memoir. Billy McFarland, who is serving a six-year sentence in federal prison, is writing a book called 'Promythus: The God of Fyre.”
Ja Rule, left, and Fyre organizer Billy McFarland in the documentary"Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened," a behind-the-scenes look at the infamous unraveling of the Fyre music festival.
The man who founded the famously ill-fated Fyre Festival plans to tell his story in a self-published memoir. Billy McFarland, who is serving a six-year sentence in federal prison, is writing a book with the unconventionally spelled title"Promythus: The God of Fyre.”, in a series of letters to his girlfriend, Anastasia Eremenko. The planned manuscript will be around 800 handwritten pages when completed, according to McFarland.
McFarland became infamous in 2017 after the doomed launch of his Fyre Festival, which was supposed to be a luxurious getaway on a Caribbean island featuring star musicians and social media influencers. But when festival attendees, some of whom paid thousands of dollars for tickets to the event, showed up to the Bahamas, they found that their supposedly lush accommodations were nothing more than FEMA tents, and the gourmet food they'd been promisedMonths after the festival fizzled, McFarland was arrested and charged with wire fraud, with federal prosecutors claiming that
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