When it comes to the disaster that was 2017's Fyre Festival, there's plenty of blame to go around. When the festival, advertised as an elite, epic music and social media fest for influencers and stars alike, turned out to be a horribly organized fiasco to the point of being a scam, most of the blame fell - rightly - at the feet of Billy McFarland, the entrepreneur whose influencer-focused ventures had finally done him in. But McFarland didn't bankroll the doomed festival himself; prominent and wealthy people poured money into his idea and interacted with him and his ventures. One of the biggest investors? Carola Jain.

Jain is probably a name that was unfamiliar to most viewers who tuned in to one of the newly released documentaries about Fyre Festival: Netflix's Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened and Hulu's Fyre Fraud. A marketing executive and the wife...