Two attendees of disastrous Fyre festival awarded $2.5m each

Jailed festival organiser Billy McFarland ordered to pay Seth Crossno and Mark Thompson for losses and ‘mental anguish’Two attendees of the disastrous Fyre music festival, which promised Caribbean glamour but delivered chaos, have been awarded $2.5m each in compensation and damages after they sued the organiser Billy McFarland.Seth Crossno and Mark Thompson each paid $13,000 for VIP tickets to the festival on the Bahamas island of Great Exuma, which, following promotion by social me...

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