So who has been forced to answer for the disaster? But what attendees actually received were cold cheese sandwiches, hastily constructed tents to sleep in, rain-soaked mattresses and a logistical nightmare. More than 5,000 people purchased tickets to the weekend-long event in 2017, expecting a luxury experience featuring high-octane shows from Major Lazer, Desiigner and others on a private island. The festival is regarded as the ultimate “ millennial scam” of recent years, its fallout the focus of Netflix and Hulu documentaries. Two years after its disastrous staging, legal proceedings against the festival and its organizers rage on. “This ruling is nothing short of a total vindication of Mr Atkins,” Ja Rule’s lawyer, Ryan Hayden Smith, told AllHipHop. The New York City southern district judge P Kevin Castel delivered the decision, saying that plaintiffs were unable to prove that Ja Rule’s promotion of the event on his social pages directly led to their ticket purchases. Ja Rule, whose real name is Jeffrey Atkins, co-founded the festival with Billy McFarland, and repeatedly advertised it to the millions of followers on his social pages.
