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Reboot of disaster-hit Fyre Festival postponed, US media reports

2025-04-17 20:00:02
Billy McFarland was sentenced in 2018 to six years in jail for wire fraud over the first Fyre Festival

The scheduled dates and location of Fyre Festival 2 have been thrown into doubt, according to US media reports.

The reboot of the 2017 Fyre Festival - which made international headlines, sparked a hit Netflix documentary and resulted in organiser Billy McFarland going to jail for fraud - was due to take place in Mexico from 30 May to 2 June.

McFarland's second attempt to stage the event was announced not long after he was released from prison, with ticket prices ranging from $1,400 (£1,058) to $1.1m (£831,534).

But now the organisers are reportedly looking for a new location for the festival, with the scheduled dates uncertain.

Andy King, an investor in the first Fyre Festival, issued a warning to anyone interested in going to its planned reboot