Billy McFarland's Latest Scheme Is Reportedly Writing A Book About Fyre Fest While In Prison
NY Magazine- Josh Raab didn’t find Billy McFarland; Billy McFarland found him. Or, rather, his girlfriend did. In late February, Raab — a freelance editor who has worked with Al Gore and Garth Brooks, among other celebrities — received an editing query from a stranger named Ana. “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,” it read. Raab’s interest was piqued. “In my experience, if you write back fast as possible, you get the job,” says Raab. “I saw it right when I woke up and I responded right away.” She rang him ten minutes later. McFarland, she said, was writing a book, tentatively titled Promythus: The God of Fyre.
The book, McFarland said, chronicles his career from the first investment in a now-shuttered start-up back in 2011 to the FBI paying him a visit days after the festival imploded. Rubinshtein provided Raab with a bullet-pointed, name-dropping list of selected stories, the sorts of “great and terrible moments” McFarland planned to highlight. Actors, models, musicians, people who are only famous because their parents are, cameos from members of the Trump administration, the list goes on and on. Much of McFarland’s plan centers around telling what he calls the “raw” story, the story he feels that the Hulu and Netflix documentaries — both released in January 2019 — failed to fully depict.
Did Billy McFarland do it again or did Billy McFarland do it again? Just when you thought that slithering snake had finally run out of Outs because he was stuck in a place you could get shanked for ripping someone off instead of just having some influencer complain on social media, he goes deeeeeep into his playbook and comes up with a new scheme to get a bunch of money. Simply putting pen to paper and retelling the time he swindled people out of their cash. What a MOVE by the fraudster (not my words, Wikipedia’s).
I bet Billy will put a heavy metallic cover on the book to really make it stand out and they won’t be able to keep it on the shelves or whatever Amazon uses to hold books these days. Will the book be 95% blank pages because Billy wasn’t able to finish it in time for the release? Maybe, maybe not. Not knowing if you are getting got is all part of the Billy McFarland experience. If you get ripped off by him, you can say that buying the book was your Fyre Fest, which is a hell of a lot nicer than sleeping in tents and eating cheese sandwiches as a real life Lord Of The Flies breaks out. And if you don’t get fleeced, you can get the REAL story about Fyre Fest from the guy that allegedly defrauded a bunch of people out of their money and not from those other accounts from all the people that were actually there and have nothing really to gain from lying outside of burying a former coworker.
Now I’m not sure if millennials have been blamed for the book industry slowly dying. But if they have, Billy shouldn’t worry about that. Everyone and their mother watched at least one of the Fyre Fest docs.
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We know old people love to read. So even if younger people don’t read, Billy can probably ride their business to the New York Times Best Sellers List. And Hollywood loves nothing more than using source material that is already popular, whether its TV shows, sequels, reboots, or popular books. So if/when this latest Billy McFarland scheme fails, he will have the inevitable Fyre Fest movie as his backup plan. And that my friends is why this is Billy McFarland’s world and we are all just living in it.