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What a Creep: Billy McFarland (Fyre Festival Fraudster)

What a Creep

Margo Donohue

True Crime, Entertainment News, News, Comedy

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

What a Creep: Billy McFarland Fyre Festival Creep Season 10, Episode 7 On April 28, 2017, a tweet blew up the Internet from Trevor DeHaas, @trev4president with a picture of a very sad bread and cheese meal saying “Here’s the dinner they fed us tonight. Literally slices of bread, cheese, and salad with no dressing #fyrefraud #fyrefestival #dumpsterfyre This was day one of the Fyre Festival fraud perpetrated by 25-year old Fyre Media CEO & Founder Billy McFarland. Hundreds of people were stranded, millions of dollars were borrowed and never paid back. Here is the story of one of the biggest (and youngest) frauds we have covered on this show. Sources for this episode: Fyre Festival Wikipedia Fyre Fest Intro/First Clip NME Ja Rule sells Cheese Sandwich for NFT BBC CNBC CNBC "American Greed" Washington Post Netflix: The Greatest Party That Never Happened Vulture (NY Magazine) Vanity Fair ABC "Where Are They Now?" Vogue (First-person account) Hulu: Fyre Fraud Be sure to follow us on social media! But don’t follow us too closely … don’t be a creep about it! Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts Twitter: https://twitter.com/CreepPod @CreepPod Facebook: Join the private group! Instagram @WhatACreepPodcast Visit our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/whatacreep Email: [email protected] We’ve got merch here! https://whatacreeppodcast.threadless.com/# Our website is www.whatacreeppodcast.com Our logo was created by Claudia Gomez-Rodriguez follow her on Instagram @ClaudInCloud

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Welcome to What A Creep, the show with Margot Donnie and Sonia Mansfield talking about

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creeps from the past to the present.

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This is your quick guide to the biggest creeps, jerks, assholes and losers, the best of the

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worst.

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From two nice ladies who want the world to be a little less creepy.

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Welcome back to What A Creep.

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This is Margot Donnie you and my cohort in creepitude, as always, is the amazing Sonia

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Mansfield.

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Hey Sonia, hello my friend, hello my friend, we're doing a festival today, we're talking

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about a creep who put on a festival that was a total fraud and it's going to be so much

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fun.

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