#Roommates, it looks like #JaRule wants y’all to give him another chance. Despite the failed #FyreFestival that inspired two documentaries that chronicled the disaster, Ja Rule says he has plans to create another major music festival.
He claims he hasn’t watched either of the documentaries but he clearly knows how people feel about them. “I lived it man, I don’t have to watch it,” Ja Rule told @tmz_tv. “It’s not funny to me man, it’s heartbreaking.”
But according to Ja, “In the midst of chaos, there’s opportunity.” “It is the most iconic festival that never was,” Ja Rule said of the Fyre Festival last night. “So I have plans to create the Iconic music festival.”
While Ja Rule is a free man (maybe not free from the criticism), his business partner in the whole Fyre mess was arrested and sentenced to six years in federal prison this past October.
Billy McFarland was found guilty of wire fraud after scamming over 80 investors out of $26 million and leaving hundreds of ticket buyers stranded at his failed music festival in the Bahamas last year.
As we previously reported, he promised luxury accommodations and A-list performances but the festival never happened and folks where stuck sleeping in, what a few festival goers described as, a dump. Prosecutors also said the festival’s website identified its location as “Fyre Cay,” a place that doesn’t exist but was being advertised as a private island that drug lord Pablo Escobar once owned.
If that wasn’t enough, he was also sentenced for additional fraud charges after being busted for running a fake ticket-selling scam while out on bail! According to The New York Times, federal prosecutors said McFarland ran a company that “sold fraudulent tickets to exclusive events like the Met Gala, Burning Man and Coachella. In one case, the authorities said, two customers flew from Florida to New York for the Grammy Awards, only to be turned away at the door.”
#Roommates, would you trust Ja Rule’s new venture? Let us know!
