A Fyre Fest event producer told to offer oral sex in exchange for water

It was dubbed the greatest party that never happened. Now, a Fyre Festival employee has revealed the favours he was asked to do in exchange for water.

There’s been a lot of Fyre chatter this week, with documentaries about the #epicfail of a festival dropping on Hulu on Monday and tomorrow on Netflix.

What was touted as a luxury music festival in the Bahamas turned into an unmitigated disaster and led to eight lawsuits as well as organiser Billy McFarland being jailed for six years for wire fraud.

Documentaries on the debacle include Hulu’s Fyre Fraud and Netflix’s Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened.

And there is a revelation in the Netflix film that is unlike anything you’ve ever heard in a documentary.

Around the 49-minute mark, event producer Andy King shares a memory that you won’t see coming — and certainly won’t be able to forget about soon after.

“We had four containers filled, four 18-wheeler trucks filled with Evian water,” Mr King recalls. “But I had left the week before for two days to go to meetings in Bermuda for the America’s Cup and when I came back, I’d missed the big meeting with customs. And of course customs had said to Billy and the gang, ‘You need to pay us $175,000 in cash today for us to release the water.”

Mattresses and tents set up for attendees of the Fyre Festival in April in the Bahamas. Picture: AP

“Billy called and said, ‘Andy, we need you to take one big thing for the team,’” he continues. “And I said, ‘Oh my gosh, I’ve been taking something for the team every day.”

“He said, ‘Well, you’re our wonderful gay leader and we need you to go down, will you suck d*ck to fix this water problem?’ And I said, ‘Billy, what?’ And he said, ‘Andy, if you will go down and suck Cunningham’s d*ck, who is the head of customs, and get him to clear all of the containers with water, you will save this festival.’”

Oh, but that’s not even the craziest part. As Mr King remembers, “I literally drove home, took a shower, I drank some mouth wash, and I got into my car to drive across the island to take one for the team. I got to his office fully prepared to suck his d*ck.” WHAT.

“But he couldn’t have been nicer and he was like, ‘Andy, listen, I will release all the water, I will let you serve it, but I want to be one of the first people to be paid this import fee for what you’re doing.’ And I said, ‘OK, great,’ and I got back and I had all the water that we needed,” Mr King says.

“Can you imagine, in my 30 years of career that this was what I was going to do?

“I was going to do that, honestly, to save the festival.”

Bella Hadid promotes the disastrous Fyre Festival.

And if your jaw is all the way on the ground, you aren’t alone. When Decider spoke with the documentary’s director Chris Smith, he had a similar reaction to this revelation.

“My jaw dropped,” he admitted. “I’d never been doing an interview and been in a situation where I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.”

Smith also confirmed, “Nothing compares to that,” as far as any other shocking stories he heard along the way of making the film. He went on to say, “I think that one of the things that makes the movie work and makes it so special is the openness of the participants, including Andy in that moment.

“It’s a real testament to their strength of character to be willing to go on record and talk about the craziness that unfolded on the island.

People arrive for the Fyre Festival. Picture: Netflix

“I have the utmost respect for Andy and for the contractors that worked on this, because they killed themselves to keep this from being more of a disaster than it was already destined to be.”

Fyre Festival on board a jetski. Picture: Netflix

While few other moments will have you in disbelief the way this one does, the entire documentary, available on Netflix this Friday, is worth a view (and before the Hulu one, if you can) just to see how all the pieces of this puzzle came together before being completely wiped off the table.

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission