Ja Rule hit with seventh lawsuit over disastrous Fyre Festival

THE bad news just keeps rolling in for Ja Rule in the wake of his disastrous Fyre Festival. The hip hop artist has just been hit with yet another massive bill.

More bad news for Ja Rule over the failed Fyre Festival. Picture: Christopher Smith/Invision/AP, File

JA RULE has been hit with yet another lawsuit in the wake of his infamously disastrous Fyre Festival.

Billed as a “luxury” concert, the Bahamas event was supposed to open in late April, but it was beset by nightmare conditions including scant electricity and water.

With six lawsuits — totalling millions of dollars — already in the pipeline over the fiasco, the hip hop artist is now being targeted by New York-based EHL Funding LLC over an alleged unpaid loan.

The supreme court suit claims the company extended a $US3 million loan to the rapper — whose real name is Jeffrey Atkins — and other festival organisers on April 10.

Ja Rule signed a personal guarantee, securing the loan and other fees in case of a default — which the lawsuit alleges is exactly what ended up happening.

While the star and others have paid back about a third of the loan, it’s claimed they stopped making payments after April 21.

The full amount — plus interest — is due by the end of this month.

It’s just the latest in the fallout from what’s become an international laughing-stock.

Fyre was to be an “immersive” music festival held over “two transformative weekends” on a “private island”, featuring the “best in music, cuisine, design, and hospitality”.

Festival goers could stay in a villas or glamp it up in “modern eco-friendly geodesic domes” with comfy beds and designer furniture.

‘Glamping’. Picture: Jake Strang via AP

Tickets cost from several hundred to more than a $100,000.

The dinner that @fyrefestival promised us was catered by Steven Starr is literally bread, cheese, and salad with dressing. #fyrefestival pic.twitter.com/I8d0UlSNbd

— Trevor DeHaas (@trev4president) April 28, 2017

#hehehe RT @WNFIV: Expectation vs. Reality#fyre #fyrefestival pic.twitter.com/cGpJi6AgDL

— Mary Burk (@marymess) April 29, 2017

But earlier this month, one of the festival’s ex-contractors revealed that organisers had known they were headed toward a catastrophe as the event drew closer.

Chloe Gordon spoke of how she arrived on Exuma — six weeks out from the festival — to find vendors had yet to start work, the stage hadn’t been rented and transport wasn’t in place.

“This was not a model-filled private cay. This was a development lot covered in gravel with a few tractors scattered around,” she told New York magazine.

“The official verdict was that it would take $50 million to pull off [and] that it would be not be up to the standard they had advertised.

“The best idea, they said, would be to roll everyone’s tickets over to 2018 and start planning for the next year immediately.

“They had a meeting with the Fyre execs to deliver the news. A guy from the marketing team said, ‘Let’s just do it and be legends, man’.”

That night, Ja Rule was in a bombastic mood and raised a toast to Fyre. “To living like movie stars, partying like rock stars, and f**king like porn stars.”

Ms Gordon says she resigned from her role days later.

Originally published as Ja Rule hit with seventh lawsuit over disastrous Fyre Festival