Travis Scott Released From Paris Jail After Alleged Assault Of Security Guard, Facing No Charges

Travis Scott was released from jail after being arrested in Paris on Friday for an alleged assault of a security guard and will face no charges.

Sources close to the 33-year-old rapper — born Jacques Bermon Webster — told the Hollywood Reporter that there are no plans to charge the rapper and that no one was injured when Webster was taken into custody at the five-star George V hotel in the French capital after a security guard attempted to break up an alleged fight between the rapper and his bodyguard.

Sources told the outlet that there was no injury to Scott’s bodyguard and that it was nothing more than authorities in France overreacting to a verbal argument between the two.

The Paris prosecutor’s office told Variety that the offense was “insufficiently characterized” and that no charges will be brought against the rapper.

On Friday, Prosecutors in France confirmed to People magazine that in the early morning hours, police took the 33-year-old rapper into custody.

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— TMZ (@TMZ) August 9, 2024

“I can confirm that on August 9, 2024, shortly after 5 a.m., the police were called to the Georges V Hotel and arrested the man nicknamed Travis Scott for assaulting a security guard,” the prosecutor’s officer said previously.

“The latter had himself intervened to separate the rapper from his bodyguard,” the statement added. “The 1st judicial police district was seized of the investigation by the Paris prosecutor’s office.”

A representative for the rapper said, at the time, “We are in direct communication with the local Parisian authorities to swiftly resolve this matter and will provide updates when appropriate.”

“After multiple days of being chased and harassed by paparazzi upon entering his hotel early this morning and another evening of being swarmed with no help given Travis was arrested at his hotel after unfortunately getting into a fight with his own security detail, his bodyguard,” a source close to Scott said.

The arrest came 24 hours after Scott dodged one of two charges after being arrested in June in Miami Beach, Florida, for disorderly intoxication and trespassing property after yelling at people on a yacht, as previously reported.

Scott didn’t appear in court last week, but his attorney was on hand when prosecutors officially dropped the disorderly intoxication charge against his client, TMZ reported. However, the prosecution is still looking to charge the rapper with a misdemeanor trespassing charge, the outlet noted.

The rapper’s trial for the misdemeanor trespassing charge is set for September.

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