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Ja Rule and Billy McFarland Hit With Another Lawsuit For The Fyre Festival

<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It has been about a week since the Ja Rule and Billy McFarland’s Fyre Festival was supposed to go down in the Bahamas&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>By now we all know that the festival didn’t turn out too well&comma; and they have been receiving backlash for the failed event for the past week&period; The co-organizers were even sued by one of the attendees&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now another lawsuit has been filed&comma; and three more attendees are looking for them to pay up&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to<em><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;hollywoodreporter&period;com&sol;thr-esq&sol;fyre-festival-sparks-class-action-lawsuit-999793"> The Hollywood Reporter<&sol;a><&sol;em>&comma; personal injury attorney John Girardi is representing attendees&comma; Chelsea Chinery&comma; Shannon McAuliffe and Desiree Flores&period; They are suing for breach of contract&comma; negligent misrepresentation and fraud after attending the event&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The lawsuit filed on Tuesday in a Los Angeles County Superior Court says the defendants used social media influencers to trick people into attending their event&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Girardi said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Social media &&num;8216&semi;influencers&&num;8217&semi; made no attempt to disclose to consumers that they were being compensated for promoting the Fyre Festival&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He continued&comma; &&num;8220&semi;As Plaintiffs began to grasp the dire nature of the situation&comma; upon witnessing the complete lack of infrastructure necessary to host such an event&comma; a panic enveloped the crowd&period; Plaintiffs were stuck on the island&comma; with no way off&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Giradrdi said that the defendants knew at least a month in advance they would not be able to pull off the event&comma; but failed to warn anyone&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Earlier this week Ja Rule and McFarland was hit with another lawsuit for &dollar;1 million by another festival attendee&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Roommates&comma; what are your thoughts&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source<&sol;strong>&colon; 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