Footage has emerged of the moment Travis Scott was dragged out of the lobby of a five-star hotel by French cops early this morning and bundled into the back of a police car.
The American rapper, who late on Thursday witnessed the US basketball team seal their spot in the gold medal match at the Paris Olympics, reportedly got into a fight with a member of his security team just off the famous Champs-Élysées.
A shocking clip shared on social media showed how a team of armed police streamed into the lobby of Scott’s hotel in Paris’ 8th arrondissement, where they found hotel security trying desperately to separate the rapper and another man.
Scott, wearing a garish yellow jumper and a dazzling chain was pulled away by a pair of officers as hotel staff tried in vain to block the cameras.
Moments later the artist, head bowed in shame and putting up no resistance, was seen being hauled out of the hotel entrance and forced into the back of a cop car by three male officers.
Fans and onlookers descended on the car shouting the rapper’s name before the vehicle sped off, lights flashing.
Scott is led out of the George V hotel in central Paris with his head bowed after being arrested
Scott is seen being pulled away from the confrontation by several police officers
Frantic hotel staff rush to block cameras as police officers detain Scott early this morning
Three officers hauled Scott out of the hotel and towards a cop car
Travis is pushed into the police car with his hands in cuffs
Scott is seen in the back of the police car
Police detain another man in the hotel, presumed to be one of the guards Scott was fighting with
Scott was later transferred into a police van and taken in for questioning
Travis Scott, Michael Rubin attend the Men’s Basketball semifinals game between Team USA and Team Serbia on day thirteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Bercy Arena on August 8, 2024 in Paris, France
The shocking incident is said to have occurred around 5am, just steps away from the Champs-Élysées.
According to a police source, the rapper, whose real name is Jacques Bermon Webster, was intoxicated at the time of the confrontation.
‘He was not in the right condition to be questioned straight away, so was put in a cell where he is still sobering up.’
The singer was set to be questioned on Friday by judicial police, as a Paris police source confirmed that his ‘condition did not initially allow him to be interviewed’.
He is suspected of ‘violence against another person, and is being held in a cell’ the source said.
Previous reports in France had originally said Scott had gotten into a fight with his bodyguard.
A representative for Scott told DailyMail.com: ‘Travis was drinking after the basketball game, and he got into an altercation with a security guard at the George V. It is unclear whether Travis started it or if it was started by security guard, but he was arrested and is currently in custody in France.
‘He will be talking to an attorney there at some point,’ they added.
Scott languishes in the back of a police car
Scott is seen wearing a yellow jumper, a thick chain and matching earrings as he sits in the car
Footage has emerged of Travis Scott’s arrest in Paris on Friday morning after an altercation at a hotel
Footage shows Scott in the back of a French police car with his hands behind his back
The American rapper, whose real name is Jacques Bermon Webster, was detained by gendarmes at the George V Hotel in the French capital’s 8th arrondissement
Video shows rapper in handcuffs being escorted into a police car
The rapper in handcuffs in the back of a French police car on Friday morning
An art-deco landmark built in 1928, Four Seasons Hotel George V is nestled in the Golden Triangle of Paris, just off the historic Champs-Elysees
Scott’s legal team continued: ‘The police are talking to witnesses and other hotel employees as well as Travis crew and reviewing footage from various locations.
‘After they do an investigation, they will decide on if they are going to press criminal charges. It depends on the factors just mentioned.’
Separately, they added: ‘We are in direct communication with the local Parisian authorities to swiftly resolve this matter and will provide updates when available.’
Scott is currently in Paris for the Olympic Games.
He was notably seen on Thursday evening, August 8, attending the men’s basketball semi-final between Serbia and the United States.
His overnight arrest comes after the rapper was arrested in Miami back in June after being involved in a ‘disturbance on a yacht’.
Cops interrogated him about whether he’d been drinking. Scott replied: ‘It’s Miami’.
He also responded to the night’s chaos with a series of light-hearted tweets to calm fan fears about his upcoming tour, and an edited version of his bleary-eyed mugshot snapped shortly after his arrest.
Travis Scott attends the men’s basketball semi-final match between Team France and Team Germany on day thirteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Bercy Arena on August 08, 2024 in Paris, France
Travis Scott arrives at his hotel in Paris ahead of the Olympic Games
A general view of the ‘Four Seasons George V’ Palace on April 14, 2011 in Paris, France
Scott is currently in Paris for the Olympic Games
Travis Scott attends the Men’s Basketball semifinals game between Team USA and Team Serbia on day thirteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024
Scott then wrote ‘lol’ on X and shared his booking photo complete with photoshopped shades and earphones via Instagram stories.
The Sicko Mode singer is the former partner of Kylie Jenner, whom he has two young children with, Stormi and Aire.
Scott and the Kylie Cosmetics founder, 26, have had an on-off relationship since 2017, but are currently not together.
Just a week before his June arrest, Scott was involved in a skirmish with Jenner’s previous ex Tyga in Cannes.
Over the years, the rapper has had a few run-ins with the law.
Most notably, he was at the forefront of the 2021 ‘Astroworld’ disaster, where 10 people lost their lives and hundreds more were injured while attending the rapper’s music festival at NRG Park in Houston, Texas in a deadly crush.
On November 5, 2021, hundreds of people were filmed stampeding through a VIP entrance at the Live Nation-organized event, sparking fears of overcrowding and poor crowd control.
Travis Scott was arrested overnight for allegedly causing a drunken altercation on a Florida yacht – and his hilarious response under police interrogation was recorded in an affidavit seen by DailyMail.com
Pictured: an edited version of the mugshot Scott shared to his Instagram hours after the arrest
Travis Scott was filmed continuing to perform after eight people were crushed to death – including two victims aged just 14 and 16 – with one witness saying it was a ‘floor of bodies’.
Videos circulating on Twitter showed the crowd chanting ‘stop the show, stop the show!’
While the concert was declared a mass casualty event at 9.38pm, the concert continued until 10:15pm, for which Scott – who was headlining and promoting the festival – was heavily criticised.
The rapper, alongside the festival’s organisers Live Nation and ScoreMore faced numerous civil lawsuits accusing them of negligence and wrongful death.
However in June last year, a Houston grand jury decided Scott would not face criminal charges for his role in the deadly crowd surge.
In November last year, two years after the stampede, Scott broke his silence on Astroworld in an interview with GQ, and said he was ‘overly devastated’ by the tragedy, adding that he thought about the disaster ‘all the time’.
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Scott said: ‘Making music, you think about things that go on in life and things that happen in your life, and you dial in on things. That moment for families, for the city, you know, it was devastating. And when it came to making, like even finishing the album…I got back into it probably like, I don’t know, months and months and months after.
‘And the idea of just even getting back into music, working on music and just even getting into that, was therapeutic of being able to channel some of the energy into production and sounds and finishing it.
‘I mean I was just overly devastated, you know. Yeah… Yeah, I always think about it. Those fans were like my family. You know, I love my fans to the utmost.
In May this year, Scott and Live Nation settled nine wrongful death lawsuits.