Travis Scott, Drake Live Nation, NRG Stadium and others have been slammed with a $2billion lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed by a Texas-based attorney who is representing more than 200 alleged victims of the Astroworld festival tragedy that left 10 people dead.
The Astroworld festival tragedy lawsuit, which was filed by Texas trial attorney Thomas J. Henry, includes a long list of defendants such as Apple Music, Travis Scott, Aubrey Drake Graham, Live Nation, and NRG Stadium.
According to the news release from Henry, the lawsuit was filed on behalf of 282 victims who have hired an attorney to represent them following the festival.
“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,” Henry said. “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.”
Henry’s lawsuit is one of several lawsuits filed against Travis Scott and others.
On Tuesday, Houston attorney Tony Buzbee also filed a lawsuit on behalf of more than 120 clients, including Axel Acosta, who died at the festival.
The suit filed by Buzbee also names several organizations, including Apple Music and Epic Music, claiming they stood to profit from the event. The suit is seeking $750 million.
According to the report by TMZ Travis’ attorney, Edwin F. McPherson, told the outlet that: “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.”
He continues … “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.”
Travis’ lawyer adds … “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.”
And there’s this … “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.”
TMZ also reported that sources close to Travis had told them that the incident Asroworld festival tragedy caught on video from the crowd in which a fan is seen on a camera platform asking a camera operator to stop the show occurred 50 yards from the stage and was impossible for Travis to see.