Travis Scott is facing more accusations after a woman said he caused a stampede at the Rolling Loud Miami music festival in May 2019.
Scott, who is currently facing numerous lawsuits in connection to last year’s deadly Astroworld festival, was added to an existing lawsuit filed against Rolling Loud organizers by Marchelle Ashley Love, who said she suffered severe injuries after getting trampled by a crowd at the festival.
The suit, obtained by Baller Alert, accuses Scott of negligence and claims he “continued to verbally and physically incite the crowd to engage in a mosh pit and other hazardous activities” even after cops went backstage and demanded he stop performing as the crowd was growing uncontrollable.
The legal documents note that false reports of an active shooter on day one of the event caused panic among attendees. Love argues Scott should have refrained from conduct that would incite the crowd to violence and panic.
As to why Scott is now being named in the lawsuit, Love’s attorney Raymond Dieppa told Baller Alert the case against Travis Scott took so long because they had to “speak to witnesses and realize what actually happened.” According to Dieppa, they needed proof that Love was hurt during Scott’s set.
However, in a statement to Billboard attorneys for Travis Scott called the new suit a “blatant, cynical attempt to attack Travis” over a “3-year-old incident that is deliberately misrepresented.”
“As even the complaint makes clear, this incident was related to a false report of a shooting mid-show, completely unrelated to Travis’s performance,” Scott’s rep said. “This cheap opportunism is based on a blatant lie that’s easy to detect. And it is particularly telling that this plaintiff’s lawyer didn’t even assert a claim against Travis when he originally filed the complaint on behalf of his client more than two years ago or in four prior versions of that complaint.”
Security company Sequel Solutions were named in the initial suit filed in 2020. The company responded by stating that the plaintiff didn’t exercise proper care for her own safety.
Dieppa also told Baller Alert that Sequel blamed him for the cause of the mosh, which caused the injuries.
Other Rolling Loud organizers were also named in the 2020 filing, however, they were later dropped from the case.
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