# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billy-mcfarland
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:52:49.533Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billy-mcfarland"
name: "Billy McFarland"
slug: "billy-mcfarland"
description: "William Zervakos McFarland is an American businessman and entrepreneur who was convicted of financial crimes related to Fyre Festival, having defrauded investors of $27.4 million. In 2022, Vanity Fair described him as \"the poster boy for millennial scamming\"."
tagline: "American con artist, convicted of fraud"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Billy_McFarland_Entrepreneur_2014_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1991-12-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.95
  momentum:             0.8154636061612807
  historical:           6.073230666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_McFarland"
    title: "Billy McFarland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%83%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF"
    title: "بيلى مكفارلاند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_McFarland"
    title: "Billy McFarland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ss.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_McFarland_(umkhohlisi)"
    title: "Billy McFarland (umkhohlisi)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_McFarland"
    title: "Billy McFarland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_McFarland"
    title: "Billy McFarland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18044835"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump