{"id":4718,"date":"2019-10-14T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=4718"},"modified":"2019-09-30T09:57:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T14:57:16","slug":"models-musicians-face-lawsuits-over-fyre-festival-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=4718","title":{"rendered":"Models, Musicians Face Lawsuits Over Fyre Festival Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bankruptcy trustee Gregory Messer is suing Models Kendall Jenner\nand Emily Ratajkowski and performers Migos, Pusha T, and Lil Yachty in the U.S.\nBankruptcy Court for New York. Messer has been investigating who was paid in\nthe lead-up to the 2017 event, Fyre Festival, that was supposed to take place\nover two weekends in the Bahamas. The lawsuits seek to recover money paid to\ntalent agencies, performers they represent, and some vendors that were paid to\ncharter musicians to the festival on private jets and yachts. William &#8220;Billy&#8221;\nMcFarland and his company, Fyre Media Inc., were also sued for over $14 million\nallegedly transferred to him or to Fyre Media from its bankrupt subsidiary\nformed to promote the festival. McFarland is currently serving a six-year\nprison sentence after pleading guilty to fraud charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/2g9Yhpkt01QLpB88073dOg--~A\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9ODAw\/http:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en-US\/homerun\/complex_music_120\/95e12c4b56f73a56ac655b1b55dc167a\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"175\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have been a victim of a scam and would like to speak to\nan attorney, call our law office at 816-524-4949 or visit our website at\nHoorfarlaw.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bankruptcy trustee Gregory Messer is suing Models Kendall Jenner and Emily Ratajkowski and performers Migos, Pusha T, and Lil Yachty in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for New York. Messer has been investigating who was paid in the lead-up to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=4718\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4719,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718\/revisions\/4719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}