Travis Scott is still feeling the fallout from the Astroworld Festival tragedy — and likely will for a long time. The November 5 incident claimed the lives of 10 people and injured hundreds of others. Consequently, multiple lawsuits have been filed again Scott, Live Nation and other promoters of the event totaling over $2 billion.
Even so, Scott is trying his best to help the victims’ families, offering to cover funeral costs and mental health counseling. But according to TMZ, the families of both 14-year-old John Hilgert and 27-year-old Danish Baig have refused to accept Scott’s money, suggesting the gesture is a “slap in the face.”
Attorney Michael Lyons, who’s representing Baig’s family in a civil lawsuit against Scott and others, explained, “We received a written offer from Travis Scott’s attorney Dan Petrocelli indicating that he would pay $7,500 in funeral burial costs and my clients are rejecting that.
“[Y]ou can infer that when a parent has to bury their child that they’re not really interested in people who may have contributed to that being involved.”
The Mithoff law firm, which is representing Hilgert’s family in a similar lawsuit, also rejected the offer but didn’t provide an explanation.
The family of 9-year-old Ezra Blount, the youngest Astroworld victim, was the first to decline Scott’s money. In a letter obtained by Rolling Stone, Petrocelli told Blount family attorney Bob Hilliard his client would be happy to cover the costs of burying their child.
“Travis is devastated by the tragedy that occurred at the Astroworld Festival and grieves for the families whose loved ones died or were injured,” Petrocelli wrote. “Travis is committed to doing his part to help the families who have suffered and begin the long process of healing in the Houston community. Toward that end, Travis would like to pay for the funeral expenses for Mr. Blount’s son.”
Family Of 9-Year-Old Astroworld Festival Victim Rejects Travis Scott's Funeral Offer
But Hilliard replied, “Your client’s offer is decline. I have no doubt Mr. Scott feels remorse. His journey ahead will be painful. He must face and hopefully see that he bears some of the responsibility for this tragedy.”
The Blount family moved ahead with their own funeral and buried their child in Texas on November 23.
The disrespect, he’s about two zero’s shy of any kind of legitimate compensation
trav dont give 2 shits. its his mngment team reachin out. trav is chillin with MJ and them. fuck this tool
Seems like it’s the entertainer’s job to entertain. The promoter’s job is to promote the concert. Isn’t it the venue’s responsibility to provide adequate security to ensure the safety of the guests inside their building? I think Travis’ music sucks and his popularity is a lot based around his Kardashian-extention…. but I don’t see how this is his “fault” seeing how he’s 1 entertainer tasked with the job of entertaining thousands of people. It’s not like he can be the security guard for all these people as well.
Since it’s his music festival, he will 100% be liable for part of what happened. Depending on how the venue operates, he could be liable for his actions on stage too. For example, when the emergency vehicle entered the crowd, he did not stop the show. He for sure signed some sort of contracts and terms for safety, and one of the terms could easily be that he must calm the crowd when emergency vehicles enter. Liability could stretch to the entertainer in a lot of ways, but as the organizer of the festival he will for sure be settling many many lawsuits and paying directly for what happened.
Travis only had one job to do: perform. The venue had the responsibility to send someone on stage to tell Travis to stop performing. Sue the venue. A rapper is not a trained crowd control expert. Innocent all day.
Are you using your brain?! People telling Travis that fans dying and he then tells the crowd to get more F up and you are defending this monster! How can you not be ashamed of yourself. What if your brother, sister or child died on that floor would you still write THIS same comment?! SHAME ON YOU
Uhhh who’s festival was it dummy? Liability shifts right back to him because they didn’t prepare for this shit when they knew it could happen. Performers that care about their fans actually do control the crowd… believe it or not this is not the first time this has happened and performers have on multiple occasions in massive shows stopped the music to make sure fans are ok. There was an emergency vehicle trying to get through and he did jack, his team on stage did jack when they were informed dead bodies were in the crowd. Travis Scott is liable on so many levels.
look at those “victims”. They chose to be there and they all were rich enough to afford to put themselves there. Now their family wana ruin a successful black mans career when its the concert venues fault. Not Travis.
9 year old BLACK kid died! YES a BLACK little KID. Don’t start with that black and white shit. If people are telling you there is dead bodies on the floor do you go then and tell the crowd to get more F up???? Get the F outta here. Don’t defend this loser just because he’s BLACK, don’t be a retard!
Bro, this was easily preventable, it was his festival. Other people have had just as big shows where no one died… It’s not like these people knew what they were getting into. They went to a concert and ended up dead. What the fuck would you do? This has zero to do with race and 100% to do with answering why 10 people ended up dead when zero should of.
Chump change compared to what lawsuits will be.