Famed American rapper Travis Scott was arrested within the centre of Paris early this morning after an altercation at a five-star lodge, native media has reported.
‘Policemen had been known as to the Georges V lodge and arrested Travis Scott for violence in opposition to a safety agent. The latter had intervened to separate the rapper from his bodyguard,’ the Paris prosecutor’s workplace mentioned in a press release.
The famed American rapper , whose actual title is Jacques Bermon Webster, was detained by gendarmes on the George V Resort within the French capital’s eighth arrondissement, French outlet Valeurs Actuelles reported.
The incident is claimed to have occurred round 5am, simply steps away from the Champs-Élysées.
In line with a police supply, the rapper was intoxicated on the time of the confrontation.
‘The suspect was drunk and had been preventing with one other man – presumably a receptionist within the lodge,’ mentioned an investigating supply.
Travis Scott, Michael Rubin attend the Males’s Basketball semifinals recreation between Staff USA and Staff Serbia on day 13 of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at Bercy Area on August 8, 2024 in Paris, France
Travis Scott attends the boys’s basketball semi-final match between Staff France and Staff Germany on day 13 of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at Bercy Area on August 08, 2024 in Paris, France
Travis Scott arrives at his lodge in Paris forward of the Olympic Video games
‘He was not in the correct situation to be questioned right away, so was put in a cell the place he’s nonetheless sobering up.’
The singer was set to be questioned on Friday by judicial police, as a Paris police supply confirmed that his ‘situation didn’t initially enable him to be questioned’.
He’s suspected of ‘violence in opposition to one other particular person, and is being held in a cell’ the supply mentioned.
Earlier stories in France had initially mentioned Scott had gotten right into a struggle together with his bodyguard.
Legal professionals for Scott haven’t but commented on his arrest.
A basic view of the ‘4 Seasons George V’ Palace on April 14, 2011 in Paris, France
An art-deco landmark inbuilt 1928, 4 Seasons Resort George V is nestled within the Golden Triangle of Paris, simply off the historic Champs-Elysees
Scott is at present in Paris for the Olympic Video games.
He was notably seen on Thursday night, August 8, attending the boys’s basketball semi-final between Serbia and the US.
This comes after the rapper was arrested in Miami again in June after being concerned in a ‘disturbance on a yacht’.
Cops interrogated him about whether or not he’d been ingesting. Scott replied: ‘It is Miami’.
He additionally responded to the evening’s chaos with a sequence of light-hearted tweets to calm fan fears about his upcoming tour, and an edited model of his bleary-eyed mugshot snapped shortly after his arrest.
Scott is at present in Paris for the Olympic Video games
Travis Scott attends the Males’s Basketball semifinals recreation between Staff USA and Staff Serbia on day 13 of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024
Scott then wrote ‘lol’ on X and shared his reserving photograph full with photoshopped shades and earphones through Instagram tales.
The Sicko Mode singer is the previous companion of Kylie Jenner, whom he has two younger kids with, Stormi and Aire.
Scott and the Kylie Cosmetics founder, 26, have had an on-off relationship since 2017, however are at present not collectively.
Only a week earlier than his June arrest, Scott was concerned in a skirmish with Jenner’s earlier ex Tyga in Cannes.
Through the years, the rapper has had a number of run-ins with the regulation.
Most notably, he was on the forefront of the 2021 ‘Astroworld’ catastrophe, the place 10 folks misplaced their lives and lots of extra had been injured whereas attending the rapper’s music competition at NRG Park in Houston, Texas in a lethal crush.
On November 5, 2021, lots of of individuals had been filmed stampeding by way of a VIP entrance on the Reside Nation-organized occasion, sparking fears of overcrowding and poor crowd management.
Travis Scott was arrested in a single day for allegedly inflicting a drunken altercation on a Florida yacht – and his hilarious response underneath police interrogation was recorded in an affidavit seen by DailyMail.com
Pictured: an edited model of the mugshot Scott shared to his Instagram hours after the arrest
Travis Scott was filmed persevering with to carry out after eight folks had been crushed to loss of life – together with two victims aged simply 14 and 16 – with one witness saying it was a ‘ground of our bodies’.
Movies circulating on Twitter confirmed the gang chanting ‘cease the present, cease the present!’
Whereas the live performance was declared a mass casualty occasion at 9.38pm, the live performance continued till 10:15pm, for which Scott – who was headlining and selling the competition – was closely criticised.
The rapper, alongside the competition’s organisers Reside Nation and ScoreMore confronted quite a few civil lawsuits accusing them of negligence and wrongful loss of life.
Nevertheless in June final 12 months, a Houston grand jury determined Scott wouldn’t face legal fees for his position within the lethal crowd surge.
In November final 12 months, two years after the stampede, Scott broke his silence on Astroworld in an interview with GQ, and mentioned he was ‘overly devastated’ by the tragedy, including that he thought in regards to the catastrophe ‘on a regular basis’.
Scott mentioned: ‘Making music, you consider issues that go on in life and issues that occur in your life, and also you dial in on issues. That second for households, for town, you recognize, it was devastating. And when it got here to creating, like even ending the album…I obtained again into it most likely like, I do not know, months and months and months after.
‘And the thought of simply even getting again into music, engaged on music and simply even moving into that, was therapeutic of having the ability to channel among the power into manufacturing and sounds and ending it.
‘I imply I used to be simply overly devastated, you recognize. Yeah… Yeah, I all the time give it some thought. These followers had been like my household. You recognize, I really like my followers to the utmost.
In Could this 12 months, Scott and Reside Nation settled 9 wrongful loss of life lawsuits.
