McFarland began his six-year situation condemnation aft helium was recovered blameworthy of defrauding investors retired of $26 cardinal successful November 2018. (He besides pled blameworthy to 2 counts of ligament fraud, including 1 for NYC VIP Access, the bogus ticketing strategy helium created portion retired connected bail.)

After his sentencing, McFarland issued an apology to People.

"I americium incredibly atrocious for my corporate actions and volition close the wrongs I person delivered to my family, friends, partners, associates and, you, the wide public," helium said. "I've ever sought—and dreamed—to execute unthinkable things by pushing the envelope to present for a communal good, but I made galore incorrect and immature decisions on the mode and I caused agony. As a result, I've lived each time successful situation with pain, and I volition proceed to bash truthful until I americium capable to marque up for immoderate of this harm done enactment and actions that nine finds respectable."

In 2022, McFarland was fixed an aboriginal merchandise to a halfway location and announced plans to signifier a caller lawsuit dubbed "Fyre Festival II" soon thereafter. Organizers accidental the caller lawsuit volition instrumentality spot successful May 30-June 2, 2025.

The rapper didn't enactment successful either documentary astir the scandal, but was heavy featured successful some arsenic helium was Fyre's co-founder, moving intimately with McFarland.

While McFarland went to prison, Ja Rule remained successful the wide and defended himself connected societal media aft the documentaries went viral.

"I had an astonishing imaginativeness to make a festival similar NO OTHER!!! I would NEVER SCAM oregon FRAUD anyone what consciousness does that make???" helium tweeted. He besides wrote, "I excessively was hustled, scammed, bamboozled, hood winked, pb astray!!!"

Still, Ja Rule was the taxable of aggregate lawsuits due to the fact that of his ties to Fyre.

Since the demise of Fyre, Ja Rule has since started a caller venture, an app called ICONN, a "celebrity amusement publication & concierge  service." Sound familiar?

"It's precise different, but it's similar," Ja Rule admitted successful a clip from his interrogation connected a amusement called Drink Champs successful the Hulu doc of the examination of ICONN to Fyre.

He declined to enactment successful either documentary.

"I conscionable don't privation to needfully beryllium known arsenic the Blow Job King of the world." Talk astir talking #friendshipgoals to a full caller level.

The breakout infinitesimal from Netflix's documentary? When the seasoned lawsuit shaper admitted helium was consenting to execute oral enactment connected a customs serviceman successful bid to summation entree to h2o for the festival astatine McFarland's request. 

And successful a video posted by Netflix, King admitted helium was "completely blown away" (no pun intended, we presume) by the effect to the documentary. "I americium present a noun, a verb, an adjective...it's mind-blogging." 

King was known arsenic "the Billy whisperer" arsenic helium was McFarland's mentor, and admitted to the L.A. Times helium didn't chopped ties with his protégé.

"No, I'm not done with him. I know—I'm Uncle Whackjob," helium said. "But I grew up successful New Jersey, helium grew up successful New Jersey. We travel from a preppy background. Half my friends person sons his age. I didn't person idiosyncratic to mentor maine astatine that age. He's not a horrible guy. He has wounded a batch of people. Will I astir apt spell sojourn him someday? Yeah, I volition probably. And possibly that's the closure I need."

King continued moving arsenic an lawsuit shaper done his company, Inward Point. He besides helped commencement a GoFundMe to assistance wage backmost each of the section Bahamian workers who were not compensated for their tireless efforts to assistance enactment the festival together. 

Netflix's doc introduced viewers to the plight of Rolle, the caterer astatine the Exuma Point Resort successful the Bahamas who mislaid her full beingness savings successful bid to provender the unit of the festival. Viewers instantly sympathized with her, on with the remainder of the locals who were taken vantage of by the Fyre Festival team.  

Fortunately, a GoFundMe run was capable to assistance Rolle out, raising much than its archetypal $123,000 goal, with galore of the organizations and individuals down the festival making donations. 

But each the attraction was hard for Maryanne, arsenic her hubby Elvis Rolle, who worked alonside his woman astatine the hotel, revealed successful an interrogation that she fell sick owed to stress. "She can't header with it all," helium told The National. "I anticipation she feels amended soon."

But of the overwhelming effect to the GoFundMe campaign, helium said, "It means everything, it means we get thing backmost from everything we enactment in. It is similar God is watching implicit us."

Eremenko is McFarland's woman who appeared successful the Hulu documentary, revealing the missive McFarland wrote her from jail.

The Russian model, who has changeable campaigns for Balmain and Guess, met McFarland aft the Fyre Festival debacle, calling it "destiny."

In 2024, McFarland revealed helium and Eremenko "broke up for a small bit" during an interrogation connected Bethenny Frankel's Just B podcast, but said they aboriginal reconciled.

The Jerry Media CEO took portion connected and disconnected surface successful the Netflix documentary, appearing connected camera to explicate his company's portion successful the festival's promotional strategy connected societal media.

"We were liable for their societal media designs and helping with marketing, pre-launch," Purzycki, the lad of the politician of Wilmington, Delaware, explained to Town Square Delaware. "We were 1 of six New York selling agencies moving together. One of the agencies did a large job: the lawsuit sold out. Where the festival failed was connected the island."

According to the GoFundMe page, the institution donated $20,000 to Rolle's campaign, with the site's laminitis Elliot Tebele donating an summation $20,000.

The erstwhile Jerry Media worker was the lone idiosyncratic from the institution to enactment successful Hulu's documentary, overmuch to his erstwhile employer's chagrin. ("Well, f--k you guys," Aks said erstwhile Jerry Media said helium "misrepresented himself" successful a written connection provided to the filmmakers.)

Since taking connected the relation of whistleblower, the graphic decorator told Page Six that "it took maine astir a twelvemonth to travel to presumption with what happened. I was nether the radar for similar a year." After the festival, helium continued to enactment for the institution for six months, but past near to question "to wide his mind" earlier returning to L.A. to commencement his ain societal media selling agency.

But by the extremity of 2018, helium moved overseas permanently.  "Originally radical were conscionable similar reaching retired to maine each the clip and I was conscionable like, ‘I don't privation to perceive it. I don't privation to beryllium surviving it. I conscionable don't care,'" helium told Page Six.

One of the festival attendees who was the taxable of galore tweets was Liao, who admitted to stealing beds and peeing connected mattresses connected the archetypal nighttime of the festival.

He addressed his actions connected Instagram aft the documentary's release, writing, "People are upset with me, and I recognize wherefore - I decidedly didn't travel crossed good successful the movie fixed the mode it was cut."

He past proceeded to springiness "background" connected wherefore helium and his friends did this, claiming the tents were bare anyway.

"People dispersed rumors astir locals wielding machetes, tents and stands being acceptable connected fire, and rabid dogs roaming the tract (all of which was aboriginal revealed to beryllium false)," helium wrote. "On film, I was laughing erstwhile telling the story, but successful reality, astatine Fyre, we were panicked. What I was laughing astir connected movie was the information the absurdity of the full concern successful retrospect. @chris_smith knows this :) one was laughing the full hours and a fractional I was being interviewed successful recalling the pandemonium and ridiculous things everyone was doing."

He past posted a nexus to Rolle's GoFundMe run successful his bio. He went connected to beryllium the caput of concern improvement for Pulse Lab and BlockMedx, and was besides a movie shaper successful conjunction with Vice Media, according to his Linkedin. (Vice Media produced the Netflix doc.)

Crawford was 1 of the festival attendees who appeared successful Netflix's doc, helium is 1 of the founders and the CMO of Elevate Venture Group. And helium was a peculiar favourite subordinate of the film's manager Chris Smith, who told the Observer, "I deliberation Mark Crawford is incredibly charismatic and comic successful his quality to callback and archer the story."

And Crawford aboriginal talked astir each the attraction helium received since the movie's release.

"You get a mates much followers, radical deed you up…everyone comes retired of the woodwork," helium said connected the We're All Psychos podcast. "This is not the mode to beryllium known!" He added helium has received "unsolicited nudes" since the documentary premiered.

A societal big for the NBA, Austin Mills didn't publically dependable disconnected connected his information successful the Hulu doc, but helium did retweet the trailer for Fyre Fraud. He besides responded to idiosyncratic criticizing him connected X (then Twitter), writing, "Find retired facts earlier you talk retired man…My ‘influencing' had thing to bash with fyre. I went each connected my ain & paid wealth to spell with my friends. Be better."

He besides addressed the attraction connected his marque (as good arsenic Alyssa's) being described arsenic "positivity," responding, "Why can't we some speech astir positivity? That's what our satellite needs much of. Not y our antagonistic tweets."

Earlier this month, helium won $100,000 successful a hoops shooting contention astatine the ACE Family Challenge.

The societal media influencer who sat down for the Hulu doc (and whose footage from the festival was utilized successful some films, including a infinitesimal that got a batch of buzz successful which she described her spot connected the level arsenic worse than "low debased economy") was inactive influencin', with 486,000 followers connected Instagram.

She aboriginal starred successful Deadly Match, a Lifetime movie astir a dating tract that turns retired to beryllium a prostitution hub. Lynch has occasionally addressed each of the hateful comments she's received since the Fyre Fraud debuted connected her Instagram Stories, explaining she and her friends were not yet alert that immoderate festival goers did not get enactment up successful villas erstwhile they recorded their videos dancing and having amusive successful their backstage mansion. 

One of the festival's attendees who ended up pursuing ineligible action, Cressno appeared successful some documentaries to recount his acquisition with Fyre, and told the L.A. Times helium preferred his acquisition with the filmmakers of the Netflix film.

"The Hulu doc," helium told the publication, "felt similar their instrumentality is that influencers and societal media is truly to blasted for the full thing." (Cressno inadvertently became an influencer aft starting an relationship for his fictional influencer persona.)

After paying implicit $4,000 to be the festival, Cressno and his person were awarded $5 cardinal dollars successful damages by a justice successful North Carolina successful June 2018.

"Apparently Billy has a program to get america the $5 million, but I don't cognize if we volition get it," Cressno told the L.A. Times.

The Matte Projects manager was hired to bash each of the advertizing and selling for the festival, which included directing that archetypal (and only) promo shoot, which went viral owed to its large prima power. (Bella Hadid, Emily Ratajkowski and much celebrities appeared successful it...which they mightiness beryllium regretting now.)

Kincaid inactive serves arsenic the originative manager of Matte Projects, which helium co-founded, and the institution donated $5,000 to Rolle's GoFundMe.

After the run exceeded its goal, Kincaid wrote connected Instagram, "That's conscionable fantastic! Absolutely Incredible. Thank you isn't truly the close operation due to the fact that I person nary narration to this idiosyncratic astatine all, but this wide enactment of kindness volition alteration her beingness and galore astir her. Without a shadiness of a doubt, that's PRETTY."

Hired to grip method accumulation for the festival's acts, Sabatini said helium was lone brought successful 45 days anterior to erstwhile Fyre was acceptable to footwear off. By the extremity of the documentary, Sabatini said helium mislaid hundreds of thousands of dollars aft the play was over. Why? Because McFarland and the festival didn't wage their customs bill, each of Sabatini's instrumentality was seized by the government.

His company, Unreal Systems, inactive provided audio and lawsuit accumulation services for festivals.

Hired to publication acts for the festival like Major Lazer and Blink-182, Krost was 1 of the youngest squad members and claimed to person been near with $150,000 connected his idiosyncratic American Express paper due to the fact that of McFarland successful the Netflix documentary.

Krost started his ain covering line, KROST, describing it connected Instagram arsenic "a youth-inspired statement rooted successful the thought of friendship."

His celebrated friends included Selena Gomez, whom helium was romantically linked to pre-Fyre festival, the Hadid sisters and Hailey Bieber.

The euphony festival advisor liable for impermanent accommodations/the intended yoga teacher for the Fyre Festival was 1 of the fewer who powerfully advised McFarland to cancel the festival.

He continued moving astatine Wave Financial, which delivers "early-stage task strategy to the cryptocurrency and blockchain market," occasionally blogs for Medium, and yes, continued to signifier yoga.

He besides posted a nexus to Rolle's GoFundMe run connected his Instagram.

The merchandise decorator for Fyre sounded disconnected connected the disorder and chaos happening backmost successful the New York bureau of the institution arsenic the merchandise squad was removed from the festival operations, and besides provided penetration into McFarland's almighty effect connected people. 

While McFarland each but fired the squad aft the festival's demise, Deng came retired OK: she went connected to enactment for respective ample companies including Nike, according to her Linkedin page.

The bundle technologist who worked for Fyre appeared successful the Netflix movie and elaborate what the acquisition was similar for the accumulation improvement broadside of the team, seemed to instrumentality his brushwood with Internet fame successful stride.

"Fyre doc has flooded my inbox with radical looking for (gullible?) engineers to assistance physique their apps," helium posted connected X (then Twitter) astatine the time. He past wrote, "if you're funny successful startups, influencer marketing, the amusement industry, oregon conscionable watching radical neglect miserably, cheque retired FYRE connected Netflix."

Fyre's originative manager became Chrissy Teigen's favourite aft she live-tweeted the Hulu doc, and he's spent a batch of clip connected Twitter explaining however to pronounce his name. (The M is not silent.)

He went connected to enactment with Ja Rule connected ICONN, but was near liable for a $250,000 indebtedness owed to American Express acknowledgment to McFarland, helium alleged successful the Netflix documentary.

Margolin was Fyre's main selling serviceman aft moving with McFarland connected his erstwhile venture, Magnises.

Following Fyre Festival, Margolin agreed to wage a $35,000 penalty. He was besides barred from serving arsenic a manager oregon serviceman of a institution for 7 years, though helium ne'er admitted to oregon denied the SEC's charges.