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Fyre Festival Attendees Awarded $7,220 Each in Class Action Settlement The lawyers representing ticket holders and the trustee charged with Fyre's assets just reached a settlement, Billboard reports. And while it will find those festivalgoers each getting $7,220 on paper, the actual amount paid out could be lower as a result of the festival's ongoing bankruptcy case with various creditors. "It's a small but significant step for ticket holders who were defrauded and had their lives up ended as a result of the fraudulent conduct by [Fyre founder Billy] McFarland," Ben Meiselas, partner at Ge...

Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what's clicking today in entertainment. Fyre Festival has reached a settlement with 277 ticketholders who attended the infamous failed "music festival" in 2017. Each recipient is being awarded $7,220, according to a report by Billboard, for being defrauded by Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland. "It’s a small but significant step for ticketholders who were defrauded and had their lives up ended as a result of the fraudulent conduct by McFarland," said Ben Meiselas, partner at Geragos & Geragos, who represente...

Corporations Back Away From Georgia Voting Bill After Funding Its Sponsors Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp speaks at a news conference about the state's new Election Integrity Act at AJ’s Famous Seafood and Poboys on April 10, 2021, in Marietta, Georgia. Megan Varner / Getty Images On March 25, the Georgia state legislature passed a now-infamous Republican-backed bill that introduced a series of stringent voter restrictions under the auspices of “election integrity.” The bill (SB 202), which Democrats across the board have described as a grievous violation of voting rights, limits the number of...

After Georgia, companies are banding together to condemn restrictive voting laws Vox.com 22 hrs ago Terry Nguyen © Megan Varner/Getty Images A demonstrator outside the Georgia Capitol building in early March holds a sign that reads “Georgia Voters Matter.” Corporate America is, once again, weighing in on politics, and Republicans aren’t happy. After the passage of Georgia’s restrictive new voting law, which was signed by Gov. Brian Kemp on March 25, more than 100 executives and business leaders met to discuss how to combat similar voting bills proposed in state le...

March 1, 2021 This past weekend, the Conservative Political Action Conference came to Orlando, Florida — a state still open during the COVID-19 pandemic. For the venue, CPAC organizers chose the Hyatt Regency, which saw speeches from President Donald Trump, Senators Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley, and Reps. Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz among others. According to Leftist Twitter, the Hyatt also hosted Nazis. But if that was the ostensible goal of CPAC, boy did it fail. Bad faith Twitter activists like Morgan J. Freeman, a filmmaker, claimed the stage at CPAC was purposefully “designed to be a rune...