It was supposed to a luxurious weekend in the Bahamas, with tickets ranging from $4,000 to $250,000. Instead, festivalgoers say, “it looked like a refugee camp.”

You don't have to be rich to get screwed by Ja Rule and his army of Instagram models.

Fyre Festival attendee Seth Crossno from Raleigh, N.C., who uses the pen name William N. Finley IV, gives a peak at the train-wreck event that vastly under-delivered and was eventually canceled.

We spent $500 and went to the Exumas in the Bahamas and I vlogged the whole trip.

But it’s also the latest chapter in the battle between consumers and advertisers in the digital age.

Billy McFarland sold elite millennials (and his investors) on an ultra-luxurious “Coachella in the Bahamas,” but the much-ridiculed fiasco that actually took place in April derailed the 25-year-old serial entrepreneur’s checkered bid for moguldom. Inside what could be the biggest scam of the year.

One month before thousands of well-heeled millennials were set to descend on a remote island in the Bahamas for the Fyre Festival to frolic on yachts, rub elbows with models, and hear acts like Blink 182 and Major Lazer, the organizers had a big problem. They were running low on cash and the festival lacked fundamental necessities.

Fyre Festival Head Billy McFarland explains, in his own words, how his "luxury festival" in the Bahamas went so horribly wrong.

The Fyre Festival Fiasco: the complete timeline.

Exclusive: Internal emails from top festival organizers show concerns nearly a month out.

Credit card records show Fyre Festival’s founder ran a concert ticket buying scheme that blended the finances of his two companies.

The millennial entrepreneur whose 2017 Fyre Festival began with promises of music and luxury in the Bahamas and descended into a chaos of badly constructed tents, cold cheese sandwiches and a lack of…

The doomed event exposed the underside of our young-money-flaunting, social-media-envy-generating era.

Two new documentaries take on Billy McFarland and his disastrous music festival. But who's to blame, really?

The subject of two new documentaries, the ill-fated 2017 event couldn't have drawn an audience without Coachella first transforming the music festival into a kind of psychic space.

Netflix and Hulu are rolling out competing docs on the same scammer festival, and millennials have a ‘Deep Impact’ vs. ‘Armageddon’ to call their own. But is one film more ethical than the other?

"It's a great time to be a con man in America." That's the last line of Fyre Fraud, Hulu's self-described "true crime comedy" about the disastrous, instantly infamous Fyre Festival that was supposed to take place in 2017. And it might as well be the documentary's thesis too.