Fyre Festival founder Billy MacFarland working on prison memoir

Billy McFarland, the promoter of the failed Fyre Festival in the Bahamas, leaves federal court after pleading guilty to wire fraud charges in New York. A federal judge has given McFarland a six-year prison term. McFarland was sentenced Thursday, Oct. 11 in Manhattan federal court. Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald called him a “serial fraudster.” (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Freelance editor Josh Raab told NY Magazine that McFarland’s girlfriend, Anastasia Eremenko, told him that the two documentaries had misrepresented the story. McFarland is handwriting the memoir and passing the writing along to Fremenko for typing.

McFarland plans to use the proceeds from the self-published book to pay for the $26 million in restitution he owes from the Fyre Festival.

“Putting in terms of ‘Wolf of Wall Street,’ the Festival will not be a one and done event,” McFarland told Raab in an email. “It’s happening again, so the original story will lose the potential to be told and set the stage if it’s not done before the next events take place.”