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Celebrities Forced To Cough Up Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars After ‘Fyre Festival’ Debacle

Ben Zeisloft
Celebrities Forced To Cough Up Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars After ‘Fyre Festival’ Debacle
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Kendall Jenner, Emily Ratajkowski, and other celebrities slated to take part in the “Fyre Festival” were asked to return payments during bankruptcy proceedings.

Four years ago, fraudster Billy McFarland and rapper Ja Rule drew thousands of attendees — many of them Millennials — to a remote island in the Caribbean by promising a luxury music festival “where the tropical sun shines all day, and our celebrations ignite the night.” 

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