Ja Rule and Billy McFarland, founders of the failed Fyre Festival, have reportedly been "barred" from trying again in the Bahamas. Bahamas Ministry of Tourism sources toldTMZ they were planning to start enforcing a "stricter vetting system" for music festivals in the future, an overhaul that will include checking in with organizers repeatedly throughout any event's development process.
The reason the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism didn't intervene during the Fyre Festival's planning process, according toTMZ, is that they didn't have the authority due to its status as a private event. On Sunday, famous lawyer Mark Geragos filed a $100 million lawsuit against Ja Rule, Billy McFarland, and the Fyre Media brand alleging breach of contract, fraud, breach of covenant of good faith, and negligent misrepresentation.
The suit, TMZreported Tuesday, also alleges that Fyre attendees were locked inside the airport terminal "for hours" as security officials put up a fence around the building to make sure no one left the premises. Additionally, some attendees reportedly passed out due to lack of water while waiting for a departing flight. There was also, according to a photo, some sort of tiny fire fyre going on?
Burned Fyre attendees have two options, according to the New York Times' Joe Coscarelli. they can take their refund and get on with their lives, or they can pay it forward by receiving VIP passes for whatever the Fyre team is planning for 2018:
All bummers aside, at least we got some decent Twitter jokes and the Matt Skiba-provided nickname Lord of the Entitled Flies out of this.
