Travis Scott arrested after fight with bodyguard at luxury Paris hotel
Rapper Travis Scott has been arrested following a fight with a security guard at a hotel in Paris, according to French prosecutors.
The musician was reportedly taken into custody after staff at the hotel called French police after an altercation today (August 9).
As per Valeurs (via The Independent), the Paris prosecutor’s office said: “The police were called to the George V hotel to arrest the rapper for assaulting a security guard. The latter had himself intervened to separate the rapper from his bodyguard.”
Paris based journalist Peter Allen was reportedly told by a police source that while Scott was taken into custody, his “condition did not initially allow him to be questioned.”
As per The Mirror, another source told Allen: “The suspect was drunk and had been fighting with another man – possibly a receptionist in the hotel. He was not in the right condition to be questioned straight away, so was put in a cell where he is still sobering up.”
Back in June, Scott was also reportedly arrested in Miami for “disorderly intoxication and trespassing”.
According to jail booking records (per NBC News), the ‘Goosebumps’ rapper was arrested on June 20 for disorderly intoxication in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
Scott – real name Jacques Bermon Webster – was taken into custody at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center around roughly 4:30am. Along with the charge of disorderly intoxication, he was also booked for trespassing property after warning (per Sky News).
According to Daily Mail, the rapper submitted a $650 (£513) bond – comprised of $500 (£395) for his trespass charge and $150 (£118) for disorderly intoxication.
Elsewhere, it was previously announced that the trial for Astroworld’s final wrongful death lawsuit has been officially set for later this year.
The suit concerns the 2021 Astroworld tragedy, in which 10 people were killed and hundreds more injured in a deadly crowd crush during Scott‘s headline set.
Meanwhile, last month, Scott broke a record at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, after performing what was his biggest headline show to date as part of his ‘Utopia: Circus Maximus tour’.
The concert saw him draw in over 48,500 attendees and gross more than $6.6million (£5.1million) from one night alone. He also broke the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium merchandise sales record for any event to date at the stadium, including the NFL.
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