Mary Ann Rolle set up a GoFundMe to help pay her staff. It reached $260000 in the first 9 days.
Norman's Cay was never owned by Pablo Escobar or Billy McFarland. It was acquired by Escobar associate, Carlos Lehder, beginning in 1978. The movie Blow (2001) briefly touches on this with the character Diego, who was loosely based on Lehder. The island is now owned by a private group who warned Billy McFarland not to mention the Escobar connection.
In a 2019 interview on Build (2014), Chris Smith explained why Billy McFarland was not interviewed for this film but was for Fyre Fraud (2019): "We were open to interviewing him. We had set up on 2 different occasions to do an interview and it was gonna be in exchange for giving money back to people that had been defrauded. But in the end he got an offer, he told us he was offered $250,000 from the other project and so he was like, 'I'm taking that'. So he was gone... I wasn't too concerned. You know, from everything and everyone we had talked about, (it) felt like he wasn't trustworthy so I was very skeptical that an interview would actually produce much from him."
The sequence detailing the orange tile Instagram promotion uses the music cue "Technically Missing" written by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for the movie Gone Girl (2014). Model and actress Emily Ratajkowski, who took part in the Fyre Festival promotional video shoot, had a major role in Gone Girl.