Video above: Vlogger Austin Mills documents the chaos of Fyre Festival
The mastermind of the royal calamity that was Fyre Festival, Billy McFarland, is planning to write a "tell all" memoir about the ill-fated event while serving prison time for fraud.
In an exclusive interview with the New York Magazine, acclaimed freelance editor Josh Raab said he was approached by McFarland's girlfriend who said he was writing a book titled Promythus: The God of Fyre.
Anastasia Ermenko is a Russian model who started dating McFarland after Fyre Festival. In an email to Raab, she said:
Last month 2 documentaries came out about the FYRE FESTIVAL but unfortunately both misrepresented the real events and Billy would like to share his story.
Fyre Festival was a luxury music festival founded by McFarland and rapper Ja Rule. The event failed - hundreds of attendees who paid thousands for tickets showed up to a remote island in the Bahamas where there wasn't enough shelter, food and security.
McFarland is serving a six-year sentence for fraud related to Fyre Festival and for selling fake tickets to high profile events like the Met Gala while he was out on bail. His girlfriend may be one of his last remaining allies.
Raab spoke to both McFarland and Ermenko about the book - which was going to be 800 handwritten pages by McFarland from prison detailing the "raw" story of Fyre that he feels Hulu and Netflix missed in their documentaries.
In the exchanges, McFarland hinted that there would be more festivals.
McFarland explained that he wanted to publish soon because the story would be invalid after the "next events take place". He said in an email:
Putting in terms of Wolf of Wall Street, the Festival will not be a one and done event — it's happening again, so the original story will lose the potential to be told and set the stage if it's not done before the next events take place.
Raab declined to write the book, but McFarland and Ermenko neglected to make him sign a non-disclosure agreement. So now, we are hearing all about it.
McFarland planned to publish on Amazon in April, but it's May and we're still to hear anything about Promythus: The God of Fyre.
McFarland owes $26 million in restitution to investors and says he would use proceeds of the book to cover these costs, while giving money back to the Bahamian people whose livelihoods suffered from the failed Fyre Festival.
