Festival Marketed to Rich Millennials Turns out to Be a Horrifying Scam for Millions of Dollars

The Idea

They end up becoming co-founders of Fyre, which is an app that is for booking celebrity appearances and will host the super fabulous festival just to promote it. This should have been the first red flag for everyone involved. A brand new app dedicated to using celebrities for personal gain? It was doomed to fail. Instead of letting it fail on its own, they took down thousands of people with them. It went even beyond that…

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