Birthday: 1991-12-11 Born in: New York, New York Biography: William McFarland is a convicted fraudster who marketed tickets for the Fyre Festival and other events defrauding investors of $27.4 million. He was the founder and CEO of Fyre Media Inc., a defunct company created to promote and sell tickets to the Fyre Festival.
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Fyre
He promised supermodels and yachts, but delivered tents and cheese sandwiches. How one man engineered a music festival disaster.
A true-crime comedy exploring a failed music festival turned internet meme at the nexus of social media influence, late-stage capitalism, and morality in the post-truth era.