Fyre Festival 2 tickets are on sale for up to $1.1 million after founder served prison time for defrauding investors of the first event

Billy McFarland, in a black T-shirts, sits in front of a patterned blue background. (Credit: Theo Wargo/Getty Images)

• Nearly eight years after its disastrous first attempt, Billy McFarland has begun selling tickets for his exclusive music fest, Fyre Festival 2. McFarland, who served four years of prison time for wire fraud relating to the first Fyre Fest, said, "I'd be crazy not to do it again.”

Disgraced Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland is ready to rekindle an old flame. Tickets for Fyre Festival 2, the revamped sequel to a disastrous luxury music event in 2017, went on sale this week. It’s a potential path to redemption for McFarland, 33, who spent nearly four years in prison for wire fraud related to Fyre’s first iteration.