Fyre Festival Hit With Third Lawsuit
Fyre Festival continues to face new legal challenges. The ill-fated tropical event’s co-founders, Ja Rule and Billy McFarland, were hit with a $100 million fraud lawsuit on Sunday, followed by another lawsuit on Tuesday, with the added claim that their model-filled social media campaign violated U.S. trade rules. Yesterday, Ja Rule, McFarland, Fyre Media, and chief marketing officer Grant Margolin were hit with a third class-action lawsuit. The new complaint, obtained by Pitchfork, was filed in federal court in New York.
Similar to the previous lawsuits, attendees Matthew Herlihy and Anthony Lauriello are suing over what they allege were Fyre organizers’ “false representations, material omissions, and negligence regarding the ‘Fyre Festival’ and their failure to organize, prepare, and provide attendees with the experience that the Defendants marketed as being a luxurious…
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