Travis Scott Is Now Facing A $2 Billion Lawsuit From 282 Astroworld Victims

Travis Scott was recently hit with a $750 million lawsuit from 125 victims of the Astroworld tragedy that took the young lives of 10 people and left hundreds injured. That lawsuit was on top of hundreds of other lawsuits filed against Travis, Drake, Live Nation, Apple Music, and others involved with the music festival in Houston, Texas. And if Travis thought that $750 million lawsuit was the biggest one he’d have to deal with, he thought wrong. Because 282 plaintiffs have sued Travis and company for $2 billion.

Rolling Stone says that the $2 billion lawsuit comes from lawyer, Thomas J. Henry, who first filed on behalf of a single victim, Kristian Paredes, earlier this month. Since then he has refiled a few times with more and more victims and now has almost 300 plaintiffs attached to the lawsuit. He gave this statement about the lawsuit:

“The defendants stood to make an exorbitant amount of money off of this event, and they still chose to cut corners, cut costs, and put attendees at risk. My clients want to ensure the defendants are held responsible for their actions, and they want to send the message to all performers, event organizers, and promoters that what happened at Astroworld cannot happen again.”

Thomas spoke to Hollywood Life last week saying his clients’ injuries ranged from “heart attacks, to heart issues, to brain injuries, to spinal injuries, to broken bones, broken legs, eye injuries, internal organ injuries, bruising and bleeding.” They’re also suffering from mental trauma. s

Thomas’ firm is trying to get Travis and Drake’s cellphones as evidence because they want to know what was being communicated that night. Thomas went on to say, “Every type of communication that he does, whether it be his audio, or his video, or his text messages, or his cellphone calls–we are going to make sure that they are all preserved.” Oof, something tells me that Drake is furiously deleting all his text chats with minors.

The lawsuit also explains why Apple Music is at fault. Apple Music live-streamed Travis’ set. The lawsuit states that the “premises were arranged in a fashion that best served Apple’s online streaming of the concert at the detriment to concertgoer safety.” They said the placement of the equipment “effectively limited many concertgoers’ means of exit; this dangerous condition would inevitably prevent individuals from dispersing.”

Rolling Stone also spoke with Tony Buzzbee, the lawyer representing the victims in the $750 million lawsuit. Tony roasted Apple and the label as well, saying that they only cared about profits and famous people:

“I guarantee you, had the crowd attacked the stage or interfered with the performers themselves, oh my goodness, they would have called in every police officer within a hundred miles. But as long as the performers weren’t in any kind of jeopardy, who gives a shit about the people in the crowd, I guess, was the attitude. And it can’t be like that.”

Tony told Rolling Stone that all these lawsuits are likely going to be consolidated into a single courtroom with a judge appointed by the Supreme Court of Texas, and probably within the next 60 days.

The fact all these lawyers are tearing into Apple must make Team Travis at least a little excited, as TMZ says that his lawyer, Edwin F. McPherson, spoke to them and leaned hard into previous statements about how it wasn’t Travis’ responsibility to stop the show:

“There has been multiple finger-pointing, much of which has been by city officials, who have sent inconsistent messages and have backtracked from original statements… Houston Police Chief Troy Finner was quoted in the New York Times as saying, “You cannot just close when you got 50,000 and over 50,000 individuals. We have to worry about rioting, riots, when you have a group that’s that young.” Yet, just a short time later, Chief Finner states the responsibility to stop the show falls on Travis…

It was reported that the Operations Plan designated that only the festival director and executive producers have authority to stop the show, neither of which is part of Travis’s crew. This also runs afoul of HPD’s own previous actions when it shut down the power and sound at this very festival when the performance ran over 5 minutes back in 2019. Investigations should start proceeding over finger-pointing so that together, we can identify exactly what transpired and how we can prevent anything like this from happening again.”

And there was also an explanation for that video of the girl begging for the concert to stop after climbing a camera platform. You see, it was far from the stage, and also the guy operating it was not on Travis’ team and had no direct line of communication with them.

So, the Astroworld lawsuits have reached into the billions and I’m sure more are coming. Travis is probably going to look for more “billionaires” he can impregnate because just the one is not going to cover it. He’s going to slide into MacKenzie Scott’s DMs in 3…2…

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