The ill-fated Fyre Festival has been hit with a multimillion dollar lawsuit just days after the event was called off.
Punters, who paid up to $US12,000 for the Bahamas-based music festival, arrived to find that the site had not even finished being built, while facilities were reportedly unsatisfactory.
According to ABC News, the festival and its organisers are being sued for $US100 million (over $AUS132 million), with the lawsuit alleging that the event'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".
The lawsuit has been filed by Daniel Jung on behalf of himself and all of Fyre Festival's guests, who claims that though the weekend was advertised as a luxury weekend, it was more "The Hunger Games or Lord Of The Flies than Coachella".
Founder and rapper Ja Rule, who has been named as one of the defendants, insisted over the weekend that the concert was "not a scam".
However, a statement released by Jung's attorney, Mark Geragos (who also previously worked for Michael Jackson), said Fyre Festival "was nothing more than a get-rich-quick scam from the very beginning.
Geragos also claims organisers "intended to fleece attendees for hundreds of millions of dollars by inducing them to fly to a remote island without food, shelter or water — and without regard to what might happen to them after that".
Fyre Festival are yet to publicly comment on the lawsuit.
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