Model and social-media influencer Kendall Jenner has agreed to pay $90,000 to settle a lawsuit over an Instagram post promoting Fyre Festival, the 2017 music event whose collapse went viral online, spawned two documentaries and resulted in prison for the organizer, WSJ Pro Bankruptcy reported. The since-deleted Instagram post was the subject of a 2019 lawsuit brought by a bankruptcy trustee who is recovering money for Fyre Festival creditors who lost money in the event. Artists including Migos, Pusha T, Blink-182 and Lil Yachty who were booked but never performed at the event were also sued to recover money paid by festival organizer William “Billy” McFarland. Terms of the settlement were described in papers filed Tuesday in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan. Jenner, who has 129 million Instagram followers, was allegedly paid $250,000 for the Instagram post promoting the event and was paid an additional $25,000 days later by McFarland’s Fyre Media Inc., according to the lawsuit brought by bankruptcy trustee Gregory Messer. The settlement was reached after Jenner and the trustee agreed to mediation late last year.
