Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid facing possible subpoenas over Fyre Festival

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Admin

Subpoenas for financial information likely include Jenner and firms representing 25 models who starred in promotional video

Supermodels including Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid, Elsa Hosk and Emily Ratajkowski, are potentially steps away from facing demands to return sizeable payments they received for helping to promote the ill-fated Fyre Festival.

On Monday, a New York bankruptcy judge signed off on subpoenas submitted by the trustee overseeing the bankruptcy of the Bahamas music festival, which collapsed in chaos and discord before it had even got under way last April, requesting “information regarding the [Fyre Media’s] financial affairs from third parties”.

Online fund for unpaid Fyre festival staff raises tens of thousands

Posted on January 20, 2019 by Admin

GoFundMe receives almost $80,000 for Bahamian workers who lost out in festival scam

Tens of thousands of pounds have been raised for Bahamian restaurant workers whose life savings were “wiped out” in a multimillion-pound fraud by organisers of the Fyre festival.

Maryann Rolle said her team worked round the clock preparing 1,000 meals a day for festival staff but went unpaid when it imploded spectacularly in April 2017.

Fighting Fyre with Fyre: the story of two warring festival documentaries

Posted on January 16, 2019 by Admin

The failed music festival has inspired two new documentaries and a war off-screen over the morality of the film-makers involved

Scandal sells, or so it’s said, but few have captured the zeitgeist with quite the velocity as the rise and fall, in April 2017, of Fyre. The luxury music festival – a Bahamas-set Coachella with villas and supermodels, it promised – collapsed into financial fraud and memes of drunk twentysomethings scrambling for Fema tents and styrofoam tray meals, all direct to our screens.

Colombia’s full-colour Blacks and Whites’ carnival – in pictures

Posted on January 4, 2019 by Admin

More than 10,000 artists, craftspeople and revellers take part in the carnival, a fusion of different cultural celebrations. It takes place every year from 2 to 7 January in the city of Pasto and is on Unesco’s intangible heritage list

Preparations for the Harbin ice and snow festival – in pictures

Posted on January 1, 2019 by Admin

For weeks before the annual winter festival in Harbin, China, workers collect and transport to the site nearly 200,000 cubic metres of ice cut from the frozen Songhua River. Most of the cutters are farmers from nearby villages who start work before dawn in bitterly low temperatures and earn about US$35 a day

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Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid facing possible subpoenas over Fyre Festival

Online fund for unpaid Fyre festival staff raises tens of thousands

Fighting Fyre with Fyre: the story of two warring festival documentaries

Colombia’s full-colour Blacks and Whites’ carnival – in pictures

Preparations for the Harbin ice and snow festival – in pictures