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Inside the Fyre Festival: How hundreds of people lost thousands of dollars
The Fyre Festival was supposed to be a luxurious music festival for elite millennials, held on a private island once owned by Pablo Escobar. Tickets ranged from $5,000 to $250,000, and they sold out in the first 48 hours.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readThe Fyre Festival was supposed to be a luxurious music festival for elite millennials, held on a private island once owned by Pablo Escobar. Tickets ranged from $5,000 to $250,000, and they sold out in the first 48 hours. Hundreds of people made their way to the Bahamas. But when they got there, what they found was more “Lord of the Flies” than paradise. This is the subject of a new Netflix documentary called “FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened.”
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3 of 4El Chapo trial: $100 million bribes and nighttime sewer escapes- 0:00Did Trump obstruct justice when allegedly telling Cohen to lie?
- 10:57El Chapo trial this week is full of high drama
- 22:34Inside the Fyre Festival: How hundreds of people lost thousands of dollarsYou’re reading this
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