Rapper Travis Scott has been released from police custody in Paris following his arrest at the luxurious Four Seasons Hotel George V on Friday morning.
A representative for the rapper confirmed that he was released without charges and there are no plans for him to be charged in the future. Additionally, there were no injuries to any other party, including his security team.
Scott, 32, was arrested early in the morning after an alleged altercation outside the five-star hotel. According to the prosecutor’s office, the rapper was arrested for violence against a security agent, who had intervened to separate Scott from his bodyguard.
Travis Scott was released from police custody in Paris following his arrest outside the Four Seasons Hotel George V on Friday; seen on Thursday
The “Sicko Mode” hitmaker, whose real name is Jacques Bermon Webster, was detained by gendarmes at the George V Hotel in the French capital’s 8th arrondissement. According to reports, Scott was not in the right condition to be questioned straight away and was put in a cell to sober up.
Previous reports in France had originally said Scott had gotten into a fight with his bodyguard. A representative for Scott told sources that he was drinking after a basketball game and got into an altercation with a security guard at the George V. It is unclear whether Scott started the fight or if it was started by the security guard.
Scott is currently in Paris for the Olympic Games. He was notably seen on Thursday evening, August 8, attending the men’s basketball semi-final between Serbia and the United States.
Before his arrest, he was notably seen on Thursday evening, August 8, attending the men’s basketball semi-final between Serbia and the United States (seen above at the game)
This comes after the rapper was arrested in Miami back in June after being involved in a “disturbance on a yacht.”
Scott then responded to the night’s chaos with a series of light-hearted tweets to calm fan fears about his upcoming tour, and an edited version of his bleary-eyed mugshot snapped shortly after his arrest.
The rapper and his former partner, Kylie Jenner, share two young children, Stormi, six, and Aire, two. Scott and the Kylie Cosmetics founder have had an on-off relationship since 2017, before calling it quits most recently in 2022.
Over the years, the rapper has had a few run-ins with the law. Most notably, he was at the forefront of the 2021 “Astroworld” disaster, where 10 people lost their lives and hundreds more were injured while attending the rapper’s music festival at NRG Park in Houston, Texas in a deadly crush.
In November last year, two years after the stampede, Scott broke his silence on Astroworld in an interview, and said he was “overly devastated” by the tragedy, adding that he thought about the disaster “all the time.”
Scott said: “Making music, you think about things that go on in life and things that happen in your life, and you dial in on things. That moment for families, for the city, you know, it was devastating. And when it came to making, like even finishing the album…I got back into it probably like, I don’t know, months and months and months after.”
In May this year, Scott and Live Nation settled nine wrongful death lawsuits.