Current Events > Travis Scott, Drake now faces a $2 Billion lawsuit over Astroworld

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https://www.complex.com/music/2-billion-dollar-lawsuit-filed-against-travis-scott-astroworld-fest-organizers

On Thursday, San Antonio, Texas-based attorney Thomas J. Henry filed a $2 billion lawsuit against Travis Scott and others on behalf of the victims of the deadly Astroworld Festival tragedy.
Per a press release from Henry, the lawsuit seeks $2 billion in damages from Scott, Apple Music, Live Nation, NRG Stadium, and Drake, who was a guest performer at the festival as the fatal crowd crush happened. The suit was filed on behalf of 282 victims who hired Henry. In total, it was estimated that over 300 people were treated for injuries at the festival, while 25 people were hospitalized. Eight attendees were pronounced dead at the scene, and two more deaths were reported in the following weeks.
"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," said Thomas J. Henry. "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."
In an interview with Hollywood Life, Henry claimed the injuries his clients sustained at the festival ranged from heart attacks and brain injuries to broken bones and extensive bruising and bleeding. "Those who were injured are still very traumatized because they had to step over dead bodies," he said. "They didnt have a choice because there was nowhere to move. These people were trapped. The crushing effect was so heavy and so hard. They couldnt breathe. They couldnt get out."
Earlier this month, attorneys Ben Crump and Alex Hilliard held a news conference to announce the filing of lawsuits from over 200 attendees of the Houston-based festival. Houston attorney Tony Buzbee also announced a $750 million lawsuit against Scott, Apple, Drake, and Live Nation by 125 festival attendees.

We filed suit today on behalf of 125 Astroworld concertgoers, including the family of Axel Acosta. Axel died at the concert. Many of the clients named in this lawsuit suffered broken bones, or twisted knees, or orthopedic injuries. Many have psychological injury, read a statement on the lawsuits from Buzbee. I expect we will file on behalf of another 100 individuals very soon. I have been in contact with defense counsel for many of the entities sued, to include Live Nation.

Damn, son, that's a lot of money.

Deserved though.

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Their next concerts might be a little lower budget

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get rekt

Travis Scott's bitch ass should be locked up for this, no doubt. He's infamous for inciting crowds to go wild like this. Seeing vids of this on Youtube pissed me off; he's saying, "I see you. It's beautiful" as people are literally dying. And those dumbass enbablers who didn't just stop the show. Fuck Drake, too; he should have known better and he's been doing a lot of fucked shit in the past few years.

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BilalPowell posted...

Their next concerts might be a little lower budget

Along with 20 crapppy albums released in the next 5 yeara

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Fairest of nexts

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Can imagine the lawyers salivating about this the moment they heard about the incident. Still deserved.

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once drake is broke people won't look past his creepy behavior

How much is Drake at fault here as Travis Scott is? Not a fan of the dude, but was he involved in the event like Scott was at least?
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Yea I don't understand why Drake is getting lumped in here. He didn't put together the event or encourage people to rush the stage...he was just a guest performer. It wasn't his show or his company's show...he was just there.

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TheVipaGTS posted...

Yea I don't understand why Drake is getting lumped in here. He didn't put together the event or encourage people to rush the stage...he was just a guest performer. It wasn't his show or his company's show...he was just there.

They might be talking about the grooming

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Drake could have certainly seen the ambulances and heard the people yelling to stop.

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Scotty_Rogers posted...

Drake could have certainly seen the ambulances and heard the people yelling to stop.

Scott was on stage when most of that happened, though. At least from all the videos i've seen.

I also want to say something that might be unpopular...Some of the fans are to blame here too. Sure we can pile it all on Travis Scott and he deserves the majority of the blame, but a lot of the fans were adults. I saw a video of a guy pleading for people to stop pushing so he could help someone....and they kept pushing, ignored him, i swear i could hear people groaning...The people who did the pushing and refused to stop when they saw what was going on should also be held accountable here.

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