In January 2019, Netflix and Hulu both released documentaries about the ill-fated Fyre Festival.
you might watch the trailers for each below.
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Fun fact: Billy got bitten in the balls by a pig during the videos filming.
All the models there laughed at him afterwards.
The Fyre promotional video promised the event would be on Pablo Escobars private island that Billy said he owned.
Billy did not own the island and Fyre Festival did not happen on a private island.
It was walking distance to Sandals Emerald Bay.
It also promised private planes to bring Fyre guests to the island.
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What Fyre guests received instead were old Boeing 737 planes with seats and even windows that were falling apart.
When guests arrived, they were transported to the spot in old yellow school buses.
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Keep in mind this is what the executive team was doing instead of actually planning the festival.
What was the relationship between Billy McFarland and Grant Margolin like?
Billy was Michael Scott.
Keith said there was no way they could fit over 1,000 people on the island.
Keith was fired for proposing this idea.
Billy didnt even plan for bathrooms properly.
Photo by John Klos
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Aubrey McClendon at one point invested $500,000 into McFarland.
The day after Aubrey was indicted?
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Aubreys car drove over 70 miles per hour into a concrete wall and he died.
(TheHulu documentaryexplores this relationship, while the Netflix one never mentions it.)
Fyre Festival was in millions and millions of debt from the start with massive interest rates.
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Despite all the debt, McFarland became preoccupied with the idea of having a pirate ship docked somewhere.
Keep in mind, though, that over 200 influencers promoted Fyre Festival!
The money was sent via wire transfer.
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In the Netflix documentary, the viewer is led to believe that Jerry Mediadid not know.
In the Hulu documentary of Fyre fest, there is an original interview with Billy McFarland.
The Netflix one dosent have one.
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According toThe Ringer, Hulu paid Billy for the interview and Netflix refused to pay him.
Billy was sentenced to six years in a federal prison for two counts of wire fraud.
Attorneys Office wanted to sentence him for 20 years.
Billys lawyers successfully argued Billy had an untreated mental illness, so he only got six years.
Where is Billy in prison?
Hes apparently inthismedium-security prison in Otisville, New York.
According to the Hulu documentary, McFarland spends his days in prison teaching fellow inmates about musical entrepreneurship.
Despite being in prison, Billy is still dating his girlfriend Anastasia Eremenko, a model.
She says in the Hulu documentary: When Billy and I met, it was destiny.
I dont know how to explain it.
I never had this kind of connection.
But he drew my connection just with my energy.
She is still standing by him and talks to him through collect calls he makes from prison.
