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Fyre Fallout: Ja Rule & Billy McFarland Sued For $100 Million Over Festival Disaster

WELP! Ja Rule And Billy McFarland Sued For $100 Million Over Fyre Festival After the disaster that was Fyre Festival, Ja Rule and his co-organizer are unsurprisingly facing a massive lawsuit. Ja and Billy McFarland are facing a $100 million class-action lawsuit via celebrity attorney Mark Geragos. According to Variety, Geragos was acting on behalf of client Daniel Jung in California on Sunday, accusing the organizers of fraud and creating a “dangerous and panicked situation.” “The festival’s lack of adequate food, water, shelter and medical care created a dangerous and panicked situation among attendees — suddenly finding themselves stranded on a remote island without basic provisions — that was closer to The Hunger Games or Lord of the Flies than Coachella,” states the suit. Jung told his attorney that he spent $2,000 on his music festival ticket and airfare only to suffer and “survive on bare rations, little more than bread and a slice of cheese, and was forced to try to escape the elements in the only shelter provided by Defendants: small clusters of ‘FEMA tents,’ exposed on a sand bar, that were soaked and battered by wind and rain” reports Variety. In addition to the $100 million suit, Ja and McFarland have reportedly been banned by the Bahamas Ministry Of Tourism from having any more festivals in the island nation. What do YOU think about Ja Rule and Billy McFarland being sued over Fyre Festival??? Ja Rule and Billy McFarland (R) Getty Images

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Fyre Fallout: Ja Rule & Billy McFarland Sued For $100 Million Over Festival Disaster

WELP! Ja Rule And Billy McFarland Sued For $100 Million Over Fyre Festival After the disaster that was Fyre Festival, Ja Rule and his co-organizer are unsurprisingly facing a massive lawsuit. Ja and Billy McFarland are facing a $100 million class-action lawsuit via celebrity attorney Mark Geragos. According to Variety, Geragos was acting on behalf of client Daniel Jung in California on Sunday, accusing the organizers of fraud and creating a “dangerous and panicked situation.” “The festival’s lack of adequate food, water, shelter and medical care created a dangerous and panicked situation among attendees — suddenly finding themselves stranded on a remote island without basic provisions — that was closer to The Hunger Games or Lord of the Flies than Coachella,” states the suit. Jung told his attorney that he spent $2,000 on his music festival ticket and airfare only to suffer and “survive on bare rations, little more than bread and a slice of cheese, and was forced to try to escape the elements in the only shelter provided by Defendants: small clusters of ‘FEMA tents,’ exposed on a sand bar, that were soaked and battered by wind and rain” reports Variety. In addition to the $100 million suit, Ja and McFarland have reportedly been banned by the Bahamas Ministry Of Tourism from having any more festivals in the island nation. What do YOU think about Ja Rule and Billy McFarland being sued over Fyre Festival??? Ja Rule and Billy McFarland (R) Getty Images

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Foster The People Go Post-Apocalyptic For ‘Helena Beat’ Video

Band describes their ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ follow-up as ‘Lord of the Flies’ meets ‘Mad Max.’ By James Montgomery, with reporting by Matt Elias Foster The People Photo: MTV News Last week, Foster the People shared their plans to follow-up their dark-horse Summer Jam 2011 candidate “Pumped Up Kicks” with a Kenny G collaboration on their next album, even if Katy Perry beat them to the punch on that cameo. In the meantime, the guys are still pushing ahead with a brand new single and video, neither of which feature the sax majesty of G, but still promise to be thoroughly weird in their own right. “Our next single’s going to be ‘Helena Beat,’ and we just shot a video for it, which we’re just finishing now. I think today, actually, it was finished,” frontman Mark Foster told MTV News. “It’s like a short film, really. It’s post-apocalyptic, ‘Lord of the Flies’ meets ‘Mad Max,’ so, it’s a bunch of kids, and they kidnap us and take us into this warehouse, and there’s a really crazy twist at the end. But it’s super-visual, and it’s a mixture of really, like, bizarre circumstances — it’s dark, but it’s also pretty tongue-in-cheek and fun.” Foster said that the band also shot a clip for their song “Houdini” at Los Angeles’ iconic El Rey Theatre (“We shot a video there before we actually played there,” he laughed), but that it’ll be “Helena” that gets the full push at radio. And though it draws the unenviable task of having to follow in the footsteps of “Pumped Up Kicks,” the guys in Foster the People believe in the song’s power, mostly because it’s become their favorite moment in their ever-increasing live set. “‘Helena Beat’ is actually my favorite song in the set. … I get to run around with a guitar and bang on drums,” Foster laughed. “So, you know, it’s good. ” Related Artists Foster the People

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Police Agencies Admit to Abusing Body Scanners

Law Enforcement agencies are admitting to storing body scanner images. This flies in the face of what the American public was told and exactly what I was expecting. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38561251/ns/technology_and_science-security/ added by: Bushido

Church Denies Crayon Evolution

Today the pastor of the fundamentalist Christian Church of the Righteous, Eliza Smith, held a press conference challenging the widely held belief that crayon colors have evolved. “According to scripture God chose eight colors for man to use, no more, no less.” This flies in the face of crayon hardliners who point to the fact that there are now over 100 colors to choose from, hence proof of evolution. When asked to comment further pastor Smith admitted that after creation god did add the color white after he realized he had created white people in his own image. added by: SushiBandit

Still Want More Brett Easton Ellis?

Movieline’s week-long series of interviews with Bret Easton Ellis may be over, but there’s a nice chaser over at Esquire . The magazine’s Web site features the opening of Imperial Bedrooms , Ellis’s follow-up to his 1985 breakthrough Less Than Zero . Kyle teased its opening previously (“They had made a movie about us”); check the excerpt out for a little more of the meta tang you can look forward to when the book debuts next month . [ Esquire ]

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