Compelling new details have emerged regarding the wrongful death lawsuit filed by Lil Peep’s mother against First Access Entertainment (FAE), who she says provided the drugs that ultimately led to Peep’s overdose death in 2017.
As reported by Pitchfork, Peep’s mother Liza Womack filed an expansive 372-page docket of evidence on January 28 prior to a scheduled hearing on FAE’s motion for summary judgment on Thursday (February 10). The evidence included text messages Womack viewed as “inculpatory” involving Peep’s former tour manager Belinda Mercer and FAE– texts the latter two parties tried to have sealed last October.
“The vigor with which FAE and Mercer fought to shield this information from the public record speaks volumes as to the inculpatory nature of these text messages,” Paul Matiasic, an attorney for Womack, told Pitchfork.
Mercer and FAE sought to seal the text messages by arguing the info included was “self-incriminating.” A lawyer for Womack rebuked this claim by arguing the documents aided in demonstrating the full scope of how “the drug-infected mismanagement” ultimately “led to [Peep’s] death.”
“What these documents mostly contain are exchanges that reveal FAE tour management as dangerous, discordant, inept, and engaged in conduct that contributed to [Peep]’s death,” Womack’s lawyers told the outlet.
A judge last month rejected Mercer’s plea and determined the texts didn’t meet the qualifications for sealing. As a result, a few of the texts were released to the public, giving broader insight to Womack’s 2019 lawsuit. FAE’s lawyers have regularly argued Peep’s contract prohibited legal action against them in regards to negligence. It was revealed the suit also additionally named FAE CEO Sarah Stennett and Peep’s former manager Bryant “Chase” Ortega.
lil peep knew drugs were bad….guarantee you he didnt start doing them around those guys…personal responsibility is the issue…
Guarantee you wouldn’t be saying the same thing if it was your family member who o.d’d. I personally found this dudes music trash, but that doesn’t take away the fact that the people who were being paid to manage and guide him were enabling, encouraging and contributing to his drug use when they should have been doing the complete opposite. Like I said I wasn’t a fan of this guy or his music or anything else about him but I didn’t hate him either just because he’s different to me or you. He was just a young guy trying to find his way in life, a dude like any other young dude who made bad choices but also seemed very easily led by shitty people around him. Rip, it’s always a tragedy when a young life is lost so callously.
u dont know me or anyone in my family, so u dont know what ive been through…and what does any of that have to do with him being the cause of his own demise? thats why a wrongful death suit is going to get thrown out…its not like they strapped him down and injected him with drugs…he did all of that stuff voluntarily…its called being accountable….he wasnt…so hes dead….
…….? and you completely missed the point. Of course he took drugs by his own free will. You said “ personal responsibility is the issue…” but his own management was supplying him with drugs when they were getting paid to manage and look after him. It’s bad enough he had drug issues but the people who were supposed to be helping him were contributing to his demise instead of getting him the help he needed. Do you know how hard it is for a drug addict to assert “personal responsibility” when they is addicted to drugs? You obviously don’t have a clue
it’s always someone else’s fault.
i think it is just a matter of these people knowing how to live life properly and that means living clean. who does drugs when you are happy this brother was miserable as hell. abuse growing up can hinder progress in someones life too and it is the same old story with a lot of them somehow. so what do they do, hey my drug dealer is on speed dial and i want expensive drugs but good quality what ever they may be. you go overboard and you have had it. the record companies should make their stable of artists more aware of drugs not encourage them to do it.
Alot of people who are happy do drugs.
They don`t abuse it tho.