On November 19, 2016, McFarland flew out a team of Fyre employees and investors, including Fyre’s chief talent officer, Ian Browne, talent booker Samuel Krost, head of marketing Grant Margolin, and investor John Bryant, to the Bahamas. Joining them aboard the private jet, tail number N827TV, with a minifridge full of specially requested frozen Snickers bars, were the former football player Jason Bell, and the models Alyssah Ali, Chanel Iman, Nadine Leopold, Daniela Lopez, and Shanina Shaik. The trip was memorialized in an infamous Mannequin Challenge video Shaik posted on Instagram.
“They would fly to the Bahamas every single weekend in private planes with models. Every weekend that I was trying to get in, he was like, ‘Sorry, I’ve been to the Bahamas, we flew out,’” a former publicist recalled. “They were bringing girls and bling and renting yachts for at least six months doing all that promo.”
“Meanwhile you’ve got Billy McFarland, who has rented this massive, 10,000-square-foot house that cost $50,000 a week, and he’s chartered a plane that’s going back and forth from Miami so that he can hook up with influencers,” whistleblower Calvin Wells added.
The shoot had actually cost quite a bit more than $2 million, given all the sunken costs. For example, before the IMG models were confirmed for the infamous commercial, the Fyre team had booked a group of less-known women from a trio of second-tier agencies to appear as spokespeople. But no sooner had those models landed in the Bahamas than they learned their services were no longer required.
“They shuttled off all those girls to a neighboring island, where they felt very unsafe and totally ignored, and they wined and dined all the super A-list models that they got. And then they didn’t pay the modeling agency,” said a source with knowledge of the shoot. “They felt extremely betrayed by Billy, because he treated the girls so badly, you know? It was kind of a personal relationship, and he just very quickly forgot about that and then concentrated on the big girls. They were shuttled off to a neighboring island where accommodations were really bad. They said that there were no locks on the doors. They had nothing to do, and they heard that the other girls were being entertained on the big yachts, you know, the whole thing, and they were nothing.”
.. see, this is the kind of thing she invites, now we’re all scanning and scrutinizing her pictures to spot where exactly is she ‘brutally disfigured’ haha
I don't think I could be paid any amount of money to do CoolSculpting.
