Billy McFarland

Birth : 1991-12-11, New York, New York

History

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.

Movies

Fyre
Fyre
Self - Fyre Co-Founder (archive footage)
He promised supermodels and yachts, but delivered tents and cheese sandwiches. How one man engineered a music festival disaster.
Fyre Fraud
Fyre Fraud
Himself
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.