Man arrested after taking the money from a fraudulent vacation/festival

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The extravagant fraudster, 28, teamed up with US rapper Ja Rule and whipped up a social media frenzy over a promised weekend of VIP partying on a private island.

The Fyre Festival, marketed with a glossy video featuring models Bella Hadid, Emily Ratajkowski, Elsa Hosk, Hailey Baldwin and Rose Bertram, offered revellers the chance to live it up like the super rich.

Ticket packages ranged from £400 to more than £300,000 to secure a place sipping cocktails on a tropical island listening to some of the coolest acts around.

But there was NO festival. NO stars had been booked, NO staff hired, NO marquees ordered. They had not even secured the paradise island venue.

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The site was littered with cargo freight boxes of towels and sheets soaked by overnight rain.

They had been told the event would be catered by top restaurateur Stephen Starr, but were instead offered a few depressing cheese sandwiches.

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In October 2018, McFarland was jailed for six years over the fiasco — and now the full story is being told in Netflix documentary Fyre, available from Friday.

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