Ja Rule Dishes About Disastrous Fyre Fest with The Breakfast Club [WATCH]
*Ja Rule and Irv Gotti hit up The Breakfast Club studio Wednesday to dish about their collaborative relationship, “Growing Up Hip Hop,” and the disastrous Fyre festival. “Me and Rule is like completely different than anything anyone has ever seen in hip-hop,” Gotti said. ‘This is a true brothership. It doesn’t matter. We’ve never […]
Fyre Festival Restauranteur Who Lost Life Savings Raises Over $160K; Ja Rule Apologizes
*A restaurant owner in the Bahamas who lost her life savings after she paid out of her own pocket to feed workers and stranded concertgoers at the disastrous Frye Festival, has raised well over $100,000 online after she was featured in Netflix’s new documentary on the event. Maryann Rolle recalls in the film “Fyre” that, […]
Ja Rule to Fight Fyre Festival Lawsuits by Claiming He, Too, Was a Victim
*Rapper Ja Rule plans to fight a multiple lawsuits against him over the Fyre Festival fiasco by claiming he, too, was bamboozled by his ex-partner. “Billy McFarland ran the show,” Thomas Herndon, a lawyer for the Queens-born rapper, told Manhattan federal Judge Kevin Castel, according to Page Six. “My client got wrapped up in this […]
FBI Investigating Fyre Festival for Mail, Wire and Securities Fraud (Report)
*The organizers of last month’s Fyre Festival fiasco promoted by Ja Rule can now add a federal criminal investigation to the mountain of lawsuits that are already on their doorstep. The New York Times reports that the FBI and the United States attorney’s office for the Southern District Of New York are looking into possible […]
Ja Rule Sued for Missed Payments on $3 Million Fyre Festival Loan
*Ja Rule was hit with another lawsuit relating to the Fyre Festival fiasco, this time from a loan company that shelled out millions to help fund the failed event, and accuses the rapper and his partner Billy McFarland of falling behind on their payments. New York-based money-lending company EHL Funding says it loaned them $3 […]
Fyre Festival Fiasco Draws Second Class Action Lawsuit
*Days after Hollywood power attorney Mark Geragos filed a $100 million fraud lawsuit against organizers of the bungled Fyre Festival, a second class action lawsuit has been filed against the same defendants. The destination event set in the Bahamas was advertised as a once-in-a-lifetime experience complete with fine food, accommodations and lots of celebs. Instead, […]
Ill-Fated Fyre Festival Hit With $100M Class Action Lawsuit Alleging Fraud
*Organizers of the Fyre Festival that never now have a $100 million class-action lawsuit to deal with. On Sunday (May 1), famed attorney Mark Geragos (Chris Brown, Michael Jackson) filed the lawsuit on behalf of client Daniel Jung, reports Billboard. The suit accuses organizers of fraud, citing the fest’s “lack of adequate food, water, shelter, […]
Ja Rule ‘Heartbroken’ Over Fyre Festival Fiasco; Swears ‘It Was Not A Scam’
*Ja Rule has addressed the backlash and embarrassment over his postponed Fyre Festival in the Bahamas. As previously reported, the two-weekend concert event, organized by the rapper and investor tech entrepreneur Billy McFarland, never got off the ground due to woefully inadequate organization, planning and execution. Concertgoers arrived on the island of Exumas to find not the […]
Ja Rule’s Fyre Festival Postponed Amid Mass Disorganization and Chaos
*Ja Rule’s Fyre Festival in the Bahamas hadn’t even officially kicked off before it was postponed on Friday morning for being a total disaster. According to Variety, the two-weekend concert on the island of Exumas — organized by the rapper and entrepreneur Billy McFarland, had promised “a cultural moment created from a blend of music, […]
