Fyre Festival

More than three years after the highly publicized Fyre Festival famously fizzled out in the Bahamas, merchandise and other “minor assets” are up for sale — courtesy of the U.S. Marshals Service.

If you missed the infamous international fiasco that was the Fyre Festival in 2017, now’s your chance to get some commemorative swag — from the U.S. government, that is. The U.S. Marshals Service is auctioning off festival merchandise seized from founder Billy McFarland in an effort to provide restitution to his victims. The 126 items went up for auction Thursday…

Kendall Jenner will pay $90,000 to settle a lawsuit stemming from her involvement in the Fyre Festival scandal. According to documents obtained by E! News, the supermodel agreed to pay just a fraction of the $275,000 that the event’s trustee claims she was paid to promote Fyre Festival on social media in 2017.

The promoter of a botched, highly publicized music festival in the Bahamas is asking to be released from prison to home detention because his teenage asthma diagnosis and heart condition put him at higher risk of catching COVID-19. Billy McFarland was sentenced to six years in prison in Manhattan federal court in late 2018. McFarland twice pleaded guilty to charges….