Fyre Festival’s Billy McFarland Apologizes to the Bahamas Ahead of New Scheme

Fyre Festival mastermind Billy McFarland is providing an olive department to the Bahamas, the nation the place the catastrophe of a music pageant kinda sorta befell in 2017.

April 27, 2017 was top-of-the-line days to be on Twitter because the highly-anticipated and vaguely marketed Fyre Festival—a “luxury” music pageant—was set to kick off. The essential man behind the pageant, Billy McFarland, has since been the topic of a number of lawsuits and served jail time, and he’s prepared for his subsequent Bahamian journey. After a collection of cryptic movies teased a treasure hunt organized by McFarland within the Bahamas, the entrepreneur fraudster determined to make issues proper in a assertion addressed to the nation.

“I am writing to you to profusely apologize for my actions 5 years ago. I was completely wrong and I wholly regret my actions,” McFarlane mentioned in a press release to the Bahamas, in response to reporting from TMZ. While that is all properly and good, McFarland allegedly made no direct point out of Fyre Festival itself. Interesting…

“The Government of The Bahamas will not endorse or approve any event in The Bahamas associated with [McFarland],” Bahamas Minister of Tourism, Investments, and Aviation Chester Cooper mentioned in a written assertion, additionally coated by TMZ. “He is considered to be a fugitive…Anyone knowing of his whereabouts should report same to the [Royal Bahamas Police Force].”

Last month, McFarland started teasing his latest enterprise: Some type of treasure hunt. The hunt, that’s known as PYRT (which I can solely assume is a few play on “pirate”) on McFarland’s TikTok hopes to happen in, you guessed it, the Bahamas. McFarland explains in a later publish that he will be hiding 99 bottles throughout the globe, and every bottle may have its personal set of clues and treasure that hunters can discover. In an replace posted three days in the past, McFarland confirmed that he despatched the 2 teams that discovered the primary two bottles to the Bahamas.

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It’s not instantly clear if McFarland is gunning for one more pageant by drumming up pleasure through the treasure hunt, or if he’s actually simply attempting to in some way stimulate the native economic system and attempt to proper his wrongs by sending individuals to the islands. Whatever the case could also be, it looks as if on this scenario the Bahamas’ try to function underneath the proverb, “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”