The promise:

Ja Rule (left) and Billy McFarland’s (right) “VIP” festival in the Bahamas was hyped by models as being the “cultural experience of the decade”, with tickets costing up to $100,000. Ticket-holders were forced to sleep on rain-soaked mattresses. Oh, and none of the A-list music acts turned up. The “exclusive villas” promised were actually a collection of disaster tents left over from a hurricane.