Fyre Fest 2 already looks like it might be as fake as the first edition. On Thursday, the tourist town of Playa Del Carmen in Mexico denied that the Billy McFarland-planned fest is happening there, just weeks after the tourist board of Isla Mujeres also said the event “does not exist.”
“Neither this event nor any event with its name will occur in our city,” Quintana Roo’s government shared in a statement. “After looking over the information around the situation, we can confirm that there have been no registrations, planning, or conditions to indicate that this will happen in our municipality.”
The press release from Playa Del Carmen comes after McFarland, the convicted fraudster behind the first Fyre Festival, claimed in a press conference that their event was set to take place there. “Our relationships with Playa may be new, but I know I speak for the…
