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Ja Rule, co-founder of the Fyre Festival in the Bahamas recently issued a statement on Twitter about the festival backlash:
“We are working right now on getting everyone out of the island SAFE that is my immediate concern,” he wrote, declaring that the event was “not a scam.” “I don’t know how everything went so left but I’m working to make it right by making sure everyone is refunded.”
Fyre organizers announced on their website early Friday morning that the three-day, two-weekend event was being postponed indefinitely, and that guests were being sent home.
Festival-goers paid anywhere from $1,000 to $125,000 for tickets and were promised luxury accommodations and entertainment. However, they were left stranded on the island after arriving to an unfinished festival site, inadequate accommodations and a lack of food and staffing. The festival’s closing headliner, Blink-182, canceled its performance on Thursday, citing sub-par production standards.
Billy McFarland, the 25-year-old Fyre Festival co-founder admitted that he and the organizers realized the morning of the festival that, “…we can’t do this.” Read more here.
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