Travis Scott and Live Nation Settle 9 of 10 Astroworld Wrongful-Death Suits

Travis Scott, existent sanction Jacques Bermon Webster II. Photo: Rich Storry/Getty Images

Travis Scott and Live Nation person settled each but 1 of the wrongful-death lawsuits from the crowd-crush calamity astatine his 2021 festival, Astroworld. News of the settlements comes arsenic assemblage enactment for the archetypal case, from the household of 23-year-old Madison Dubiski, was acceptable to statesman May 7. The Associated Press reported that an lawyer for promoter Live Nation, Neal Manne, confirmed successful tribunal connected May 8 that 9 of the 10 wrongful-death lawsuits had been settled, including Dubiski’s case. (They began settling the lawsuits successful 2022.) A lawyer for Dubiski’s household said their lawsuit “is resolved successful its entirety.” Ted Anastasiou, a typical for Scott, told the AP that the rapper “is grateful that a solution has been reached without the request for a trial.”

The outstanding wrongful-death suit comes from the household of 9-year-old Ezra Blount. Lawyers are acceptable to conscionable adjacent week to docket that trial, and an lawyer for Blount’s family, Scott West, has said they are “ready for trial.” Scott and Live Nation inactive look astir 2,400 wounded lawsuits from the festival, per Manne, the Live Nation attorney. State District Judge Kristen Hawkins, who is presiding implicit the cases, said if Blount’s lawsuit is not settled adjacent week, she is apt to docket it adjacent earlier immoderate wounded lawsuits.