Rapper Travis Scott Was Arrested in Paris After Fighting His Bodyguard

Rapper Travis Scott has had several legal issues in 2024. According to county jail records, the rapper was first arrested in Florida on the morning of June 20, 2024.

Later, in August 2024, he was taken into custody again, this time in Paris. With news of his latest arrest, many are eager to understand the nature and severity of the charges against him.

Here's what we know about what he's been accused of following this latest incident.

Travis, whose legal name is Jacques Bermon Webster, was arrested in Paris at the beginning of August 2024 following a altercation with his bodyguard, according to TMZ. A source familiar with the situation revealed that the confrontation occurred after Travis became increasingly frustrated with the guard due to “multiple days of being chased and harassed by paparazzi” in Paris.

When hotel security intervened, TMZ reported that Travis was arrested for "violence against a security guard" employed by the Georges V hotel. He was later seen being taken away in an ambulance after several vases were shattered at the scene. The media outlet says no charges have been filed against Travis as of yet.

Travis was booked at the Miami-Dade County jail at 4:35 a.m. on June 20, 2024, and is facing charges of trespassing on property after being given a warning and disorderly intoxication, per CNN.

A $650 bond was issued in Travis's case, and he was arrested at 1:44 a.m., about three hours before he was booked.

According to police, Travis was on a charter boat and was involved in a dispute with the crew.

Officers were called to the marina, and Travis was asked to leave. He left when asked, but returned and got into another dispute with the crew. This time, he refused when he was asked to leave and was then arrested.

This isn't the first time that Travis has been accused of disorderly conduct.

Then, in 2015, when Travis was very much an artist on the rise, he was arrested for disorderly conduct after he ignored security warnings at Lollapalooza and encouraged the crowd to rush the stage.

That same year in Sweden, he encouraged the crowd to assault a man who had taken Travis's shoe while he was crowd-surfing.

In 2017, he was arrested for the third time for a similar incident to the one at Lollapalooza at a concert in Arkansas.

Travis's rowdy crowds, and his frequent encouragement of those crowds, culminated in the deaths of 10 people during a crowd surge at Travis's Astroworld Festival performance in November of 2021.

A grand jury declined to indict Travis over the incident, but a lawsuit was filed on behalf of the victims. Video from the festival shows Travis continuing to perform even as the crowd is clearly in distress and asking him to stop.

In 2023, Travis was accused of assault after an incident at Nebula, a nightclub in New York City, in which he attacked a sound technician who told him to turn his music down because it was too loud for the venue's size.

Travis punched the man in the head, and he ultimately needed medical attention. Travis also apparently damaged roughly $12,000 worth of the venue's sound equipment before leaving.

Travis was ultimately not arrested over the incident after a settlement was reached in the case. In spite of his run-ins with the law, he has been one of the most successful hip-hop artists of the past decade with several number-one tracks.