Well, that didn’t take long: Organizers of the Fyre Festival have been hit with a $100-million class-action lawsuit alleging fraud and breach of contract.
The complaint, filed Sunday in U.S. District Court in California, alleges fraud and breach of contract by Billy McFarland, Ja Rule (real name Jeffrey Atkins) and Fyre Media Inc. It highlights a number of the social media posts that went viral on Thursday and Friday about the situation in the Bahamas.
The music and lifestyle festival, billed as “the cultural experience of the decade,” melted down spectacularly as thousands of guests who’d paid thousands of dollars to enjoy the weekend arrived on a private island to find that preparations were nowhere close to finished. Organizers canceled the planned two-weekend event on Friday, but not before people who’d flown out found themselves stranded.
The complaint, filed by high-profile attorney Mark Geragos on behalf of named plaintiff Daniel Jung of Los Angeles, painted a dramatic picture: “The festival’s lack of adequate food, water, shelter and medical care created a dangerous and panicked situation among attendees.”
Read the full story at LATimes.com.
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