Travis Scott Denies Responsibility for Astroworld Tragedy - The Cut

Scott offered to pay the funeral fees for anyone who died at Astroworld and to subsidize one month of teletherapy for all attendees — a proposal many criticized as inadequate.

Instead, many of those families, along with scores of people who sustained injuries, are suing Scott and Live Nation (Astroworld’s promoter), and in some cases Drake, who took the stage with Scott.

In a statement, Houston attorney James Lassiter — who represents the family of 22-year-old Bharti Shahani, who died at Astroworld, and other attendees — called Scott’s “attempt to escape responsibility for creating a deadly situation from which his fans could not escape” both “shameful and, sadly, true to form.”?

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