It looks like increasingly music festivals find yourself being whole scams. Loads are poorly organized or don’t absolutely ship on their guarantees, however these festivals organizers ended up being full-blown scammers who had previous fraud prices or would obtain fraud prices for his or her festivals.
After all, Billy McFarland is the poster youngster for music pageant scams. Fyre Pageant become one of the crucial notorious tales of 2017, with each Netflix and Hulu making documentaries concerning the failed pageant turned fraud. After forcing attendees to camp out in FEMA tents and feeding them cheese sandwiches, McFarland pleaded responsible to 2 counts of wire fraud and finally served 4 years in jail.
The 2018 XO Pageant was canceled earlier than it become one other Fyre Fest, however not earlier than a ton of shady stuff went down. Promoter Sami Habab (aka Habibullah Stated Qadir) and his brother Mohammed had been arrested that very same yr for a housing fraud rip-off, and as for the XO Pageant, introduced acts like Ludacris and T.I. appeared to have by no means been booked for the fest, as they already had exhibits in different cities the day of their supposed units.
In 2019, a Belgian pageant known as VestiVille canceled the complete fest on the morning it was scheduled to start. The outcome? A small riot. The organizers had been quickly charged with fraud. Hilariously, Fyre Fest alum Ja Rule was scheduled to carry out at VestiVille. Maybe it was destined to be a rip-off all alongside.
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Music Festivals That Ended Up Being Scams
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