Live Nation is aggressively pushing to prevent a deposition of its chief executive officer Michael Rapino over the deadly Astroworld Festival crowd rush, and the live music giant hopes Texas’s Supreme Court will support their efforts. While all of the wrongful death suits have been settled earlier this year, the …
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A miscalculation by organizers contributed to too many ticketed attendees at the tragic Astroworld festival in November 2021, new court records show. The documents, obtained by Houston Landing and filed in the weeks before organizers face civil litigation from some of the attendees of Travis Scott’s Houston fest against the …
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Astroworld lawyers deposed Drake on Thursday regarding the deadly Astroworld crowd, two sources confirm to Rolling Stone. Drake was questioned for several hours in a deposition tied to hundreds of lawsuits filed in Harris County after the crowd rush, which killed 10 people and injured hundreds of others. The sources …
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Travis Scott faced questions about the 2021 Astroworld tragedy during a civil deposition that reportedly lasted almost eight hours Monday, Sept. 18, according to The Associated Press. The deposition, which took place in Houston, was tied to the hundreds of lawsuits that have been filed over the crowd crush, in …
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A Texas appellate court upheld a gag order Tuesday that has kept lawyers from speaking publicly about the ongoing civil proceedings connected to the Astroworld Festival crowd crush for over a year. Judge Kirsten Hawkins, overseeing the Astroworld case, first signed the publicity order in February 2022 citing the high-profile …
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The family of one of the people killed in the Astroworld tragedy has settled their lawsuit against Travis Scott, Live Nation, and others involved in the Nov. 5, 2021, crowd surge that killed 10 people and injured hundreds more at the Houston festival. Houston lawyer Tony Buzbee, who, on behalf …
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Travis Scott performed for the first time since the Astroworld tragedy Saturday night at a private, celebrity-filled, pre-Oscars house party in Bel Air, California. TMZ first reported about Scott’s short performance, which included a mixture of rapping and DJ-ing at a bash reportedly attended by Leo DiCaprio, Venus and Serena …
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The safety and risk director hired to oversee the deadly Astroworld Festival and develop the show’s event operations plan was also a longtime employee of a separate security company contracted for the event, Rolling Stone has learned. The development highlights what some security experts tell Rolling Stone is a possible …
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