The Fyre Festival is rewarding each attendee $7000 as part of settlement

Who can forget 2017's infamous Fyre Festival, which was publicized to be the next big Coachella but better, but was actually a total dud?

The supposedly "luxury" music festival was set to be held on a remote island in the Bahamas, with guests including the likes of Bella Hadid and Kendall Jenner, with billed performers like Major Lazer and Migos. Instead, it was set on a basic beach, with zero celebs, portable toilets, relief tents and a very sad lunch featuring two slices of dry bread and a couple slices of cheese. 

(In fact, Trevor DeHaas, the man who originally tweeted that lunch photo, is now set to have an unrelated kidney transplant and is auctioning that very tweet as an NFT in order to raise $80,000 for medical expenses. That's 2021 for you!)

Those who attended bought tickets for anywhere between $1000 to $12000, all of which were cancelled on opening day. One has to laugh.

On Friday, however, a bankruptcy court in New York ruled in favour of 277 of the unfortunate people who travelled there expecting a concert, with settlement payouts of $7,220 each. The class-action settlement though, is waiting for final approval at a hearing scheduled for May 13, so that number might yet take a dip.

The attendees who filed that lawsuit are not alone. In 2018, in another lawsuit, attendees Seth Crossno and Mark Thompson were awarded a collective $5 million in damages.

Meanwhile, that same year, Fyre Fest organizer and life-long schemer Billy McFarland was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud charges.

His unlikely business partner, rapper Ja Rule, was cleared of any and all wrongdoing a year later.

In 2019, the controversy spawned two separate documentaries, on Netflix and Hulu, both chronicling the lead-up to the non-event, which was largely based on a glitzy ad campaign, and the aftermath. They also touched on the hundreds of day workers who were left without pay.

The Netflix doc became especially notorious for spotlighting the genial Andy King, an event planner hired by McFarland who said he was willing to do "whatever it took" just to secure a shipment of water – noting that he was even prepared to offer oral sex if it came to that. Just to remind you how dire the entire Fyre Fest mess was.

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