Fyre Festival Attendees Awarded $7,220 Each in Class Action Settlement

BY Brock ThiessenPublished Apr 15, 2021

Four long years after the infamous Fyre Festival was hit with multiple class action lawsuits from angry ticket holders, a settlement has now finally been reached, which will find 277 attendees each getting $7,220 USD.

The lawyers representing ticket holders and the trustee charged with Fyre's assets just reached a settlement, Billboard reports. And while it will find those festivalgoers each getting $7,220 on paper, the actual amount paid out could be lower as a result of the festival's ongoing bankruptcy case with various creditors.

"It's a small but significant step for ticket holders who were defrauded and had their lives up ended as a result of the fraudulent conduct by [Fyre founder Billy] McFarland," Ben Meiselas, partner at Geragos & Geragos and lead attorney for the class-action representing the ticket holders, told the publication.

Lawyer Mark Geragos was the first to file a $100 million class action lawsuit against McFarland and his Fyre co-founder Ja Rule back in 2017.

"Shockingly, Defendants had been aware for months that their festival was dangerously under-equipped and posed a serious danger to anyone in attendance," the class-action lawsuit stated.

Soon after, other lawsuits from angry festivalgoers also came after McFarland and the failed festival.

McFarland is currently serving a six-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to various fraud charges.

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