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"Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened"
- Netflix and Hulu released dueling documentaries earlier this year about the Fyre Festival, the legendary failed music festival that ended in its founder being sent to prison for fraud.
- But that's just one recent scandal that Hollywood has quickly gotten its hands on for the big and small-screen treatment.
- Others include Jeffrey Epstein and the college admissions scandal involving Hollywood actors like Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin.
- We looked at six headline-grabbing scandals and the TV and movies shows that are being made based on them.
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Netflix and Hulu dueled over a major scandal earlier this year.
The infamous Fyre Festival, founded by convicted fraudster Billy McFarland, presented an obvious story to dig into that viewers would eat up: what was touted as a luxury music festival scammed prospective festival-goers out of thousands of dollars and left them stranded on a secluded island in the Bahamas. The streaming companies both released their own documentaries on the subject in January.
But the Fyre Fest is just one recent example of a major scandal that Hollywood quickly got its hands on. There are many others.
Three projects are already in development about the financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was arrested on suspicion of sex trafficking last month and died by suicide earlier this month in a Manhattan correctional facility.
Other recent scandals that Hollywood has eyes on are the Nxivm cult and the college admissions bribery scandal, in which over a dozen high-profile individuals were indicted earlier this year.
We rounded up six scandals and the TV and movie projects currently in the works about them: