Billy McFarland is no longer the owner of FYRE Festival … because someone snapped up the rights to the brand on eBay — and they only needed a little over $245K to snag the winning bid.
FYRE Festival’s rights, IP, brand trademark and social media assets were sold Tuesday on eBay for a measly $245,300.
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The online sale closed Tuesday at 12:44 PM ET after 175 bids from 42 bidders … marking the end of Billy’s tumultuous saga with FYRE Festival.
Billy was streaming the final day of bidding Tuesday and when the amount pushed past $240,000 he remarked, “Damn. This sucks, it’s so low.” As we told you in May … he and his team were looking high seven or low eight figures.
As you know … FYRE Festival epically flopped in 2017 … Billy hyped up the music festival as luxury glamping in the Bahamas with huge celeb guests and big name acts … but attendees slept in disaster-relief tents, were served bare-bones sandwiches and didn’t get to see Blink-182, Tyga, Pusha T, Migos, Major Lazer, Disclosure, or even Desiigner.
Billy and his investors didn’t have the cash to actually follow through with the event … and he ended up spending time in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud and other crimes.
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After getting out of the pen in 2022, Billy tried to make FYRE Festival 2 happen … but he ran into a string of issues, including controversy over whether or not local government in Mexico was aware the festival was supposed to take place in their city.
Along the way, there were a couple documentaries on Netflix and Hulu.
Billy announced in April he was selling the FYRE brand … and now it’s finally changed hands.
Unclear who is behind the winning bid but Billy laughed when he saw who bought FYRE Festival, saying only … “It’s funny.”
