Ja Rule Says Fyre Festival Founder ‘Hijacked’ His Ideas

Rapper Ja Rule plans to fight a series of lawsuits against him over the disastrous Fyre Festival by claiming he, too, was bamboozled by his ex-partner.

“Billy McFarland ran the show,” Thomas Herndon, a lawyer for the Queens-born rapper, told Manhattan federal Judge Kevin Castel.

“My client got wrapped up in this unintentionally,” Herndon said of his client, whose real name is Jeffrey Atkins. “His ideas got hijacked by McFarland.”

The lawyer spoke at a hearing over a proposed class action of angry concertgoers who say Rule and McFarland ripped them off by selling tickets to a luxury music festival in the Bahamas that ended up serving cold cheese sandwiches and forcing guests to live in tents. The suit claims Ja Rule and McFarland said the fest would take place on a private island with “fully furnished” living quarters.

McFarland, who was charged criminally for defrauding investors, did not attend Tuesday’s hearing and was not represented by a lawyer.

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