The Bahamian restaurant owner who was forced to pay staff out of her own pocket after Fyre Fest organizers failed to pay her, has launched a GoFundMe hoping to 'appeal for help' after she was left in a 'big hole.'
Maryann Rolle, owner of the Exuma Point Bar and Grille, launched the fundraising effort because her life was forever changed by the disastrous 2017 festival.
'It has been an unforgettable experience catering to the organizers of Fyre Festival,' she said on the post. 'Back in April 2017 I pushed myself to the limits catering no less than a 1000 meals per day.
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Maryann Rolle, owner of the Exuma Point Bar and Grille, launched the fundraising effort because her life was forever changed by the disastrous 2017 festival
Rolle shared that during the hectic festivities, her team delivered various meals throughout the day from Exuma Point to Coco Plum Beach and Roker's Point. She also detailed how the organizers of the festival also stayed at the rooms at Exuma Point and enjoyed multiple meals there, as well.
Rolle shared that during the hectic festivities, her team delivered various meals throughout the day from Exuma Point (pictured) to Coco Plum Beach and Roker's Point
The woman claimed to have used $50,000 of her personal savings to pay her staff after Billy McFarland and Fyre Fest organizers failed to pay her
She continued: 'As I make this plea it’s hard to believe and embarrassing to admit that I was not paid…I was left in a big hole! My life was changed forever, and my credit was ruined by Fyre Fest.
Rolle's heartbreaking story was highlighted in Netflix's Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened
'My only resource today is to appeal for help.
'There is an old saying that goes “bad publicity is better than no publicity” and I pray that whoever reads this plea is able to assist.'
The GoFundMe campaign is currently trending and while it has raised more than $68K, it will probably reach its $123,000 goal in a matter of fays.
Rolle's heartbreaking story was highlighted in Netflix's Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened.
Both the documentary and Hulu's Fyre Fraud mention that Billy McFarland's careless actions and dealings surrounding the festival had tremendous impact on the people on the island and their economy.
In the documentary, Rolle said: ‘I had ten people working with me directly. They were just preparing food all day and all night, 24 hours.
I had to pay all those people. I went through about $50,000 of my savings that I could have had. They just wiped it out, and never looked back.'
Both the documentary and Hulu's Fyre Fraud mention that Billy McFarland's careless actions and dealings surrounding the festival had tremendous impact on the people on the island and their economy. McFarland pictured with Ja Rule
Many people sympathized with Rolle's story and wanted to know how they could help the woman.
Gabrielle Bluestone, an EP for the Netflix documentary, shared the GoFundMe on her Twitter.
'For those of you asking how to help Maryann Rolle, the Bahamian woman who spent $50,000 of her savings to feed the local laborers who worked on the Fyre Festival, she has an official gofundme page,' said Bluestone.
A federal judge sentenced the creator of the highly publicized, failed Fyre Festival in the Bahamas to a six-year prison term in October 2018.
Gabrielle Bluestone, an EP for the Netflix documentary, shared the GoFundMe on her Twitter
McFarland, 27, pleaded guilty earlier last year to charges related to swindling investors in the 2017 Fyre Festival in the Bahamas out of $26 million, in addition to cheating customers out of over $100,000 in a ticket scam.
McFarland's sentence was imposed collectively for all of the following, according to a statement released by the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York:
One count of wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud investors in Fyre Festival; one count of wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud a ticket vendor for the Fyre Festival; one count of wire fraud, in connection with his operation of a separate sham ticket scheme in which he purported to sell tickets to exclusive events; one count of bank fraud for writing a check with the name and account number of one of his employees without authorization; and one count of making false statements to a federal law enforcement agent in which McFarland, among other things, falsely denied the wire fraud and bank fraud conduct to which he pled guilty.
The Fyre Festival was a concert that was heavily promoted by McFarland as scheduled to take place over two weekends in April and May of 2017, but hopeful concert-goers arrived to no such event.
Following his guilty plea for the Fyre fraud scheme in March, McFarland pleaded guilty to additional fraud crimes in July, including a $100,000 scheme where he sold fake tickets to the Met Gala, Emmy Awards and a Cleveland Cavaliers game that included a lunch with Lebron James
A federal judge sentenced the creator of the highly publicized, failed Fyre Festival in the Bahamas to a six-year prison term in October 2018
The Fyre Festival was a concert that was heavily promoted by McFarland as scheduled to take place over two weekends in April and May of 2017, but hopeful concert-goers arrived to no such event
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Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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