There is only one pending wrongful-death lawsuit between Travis Scott and Live Nation

Three years after the deadly event, Travis Scott and those connected to the Astroworld music festival are still facing legal challenges.

At the event in November 2021, a deadly crowd rush claimed the lives of ten innocent people and injured several more. Nine of the 10 wrongful death claims against the rapper and Live Nation, the event’s organizer, have been successfully settled.

This week’s ninth wrongful death claim was supposed to go to trial, and on Tuesday the jury selection process was supposed to start. But before the court proceedings could start, the case that Madison Dubiski’s family had brought was settled.

With one case remaining, this was a major step forward for Scott and the other defendants. During a Wednesday court session, Live Nation’s attorney, Neal Manne, initially confirmed the news.

However, due to a gag order in the lawsuit, he refrained from disclosing specifics of these agreements. The family lawyer for Dubiski, Noah Wexler, also attested to the fact that his client’s complaints had been “resolved in its entirety.”

Ted Anastasiou, Scott’s attorney, expressed similar opinions regarding the case. According to Ap News, Mr. Scott expressed gratitude that a compromise was achieved without a trial.

The family of 9-year-old Ezra Blount, the youngest victim of the Astroworld tragedy, filed the wrongful death claim that is currently pending. The bereaved relatives’ lawyer, Scott West, asserted that their case was prepared for trial.

But the attorney for Live Nation emphasized that neither he nor the attorneys for the other defendants in the lawsuit were prepared. It seems that the Blount family has the upper hand, especially in light of State District Judge Kristen Hawkins’s position.

At the hearing the next week, Hawkins disclosed that she would be talking about the Blount case as well as possible trials pertaining to the damage claims that were brought following the Astroworld performance.

The State District Judge emphasized that she is inclined to schedule the case as the subsequent trial rather than an injury case if the Blount family’s claim is not settled. After the show, more than 4,000 claimants filed hundreds of claims, according to Manne, Live Nation’s attorney.

According to reports, the victims of the Astroworld tragedy perished from compressive asphyxia, which a medical professional likened to being run over by a car. The victims were between the ages of 9 and 27, and the attorney for the Blount family emphasized how horrific the last moments of the youngest victim were.

“As the youngest victim, Ezra’s terror must have been unimaginable as the crowd surge ripped him from the safety of his father’s shoulders and then crushed and suffocated the life out of his small body,” said Blount’s family lawyer Bob Hilliard in a statement.

Attorneys for the victims of Astroworld have claimed in court documents that careless planning was the reason behind the concert’s fatal crowd surge and the hundreds of injuries that resulted from it.

They also held showrunners accountable for their disregard for the event’s capacity and safety.

The Blast revealed two months prior to his most recent litigation victory that Scott had avoided the financial loss case related to the Astroworld music festival. The rapper’s allegations against the Ceremony of Roses branding company were thrown out in March.

COR stated in their first statement that they suffered financial losses as a result of their collaboration with Scott and Live Nation. They were engaged to provide spectators with extra activities throughout the event, like “amusements and games in the style of a carnival on the Festival grounds.”

The goals of these initiatives were to improve the fan experience, increase ticket sales, and entice concertgoers to stay and spend more money.

However, COR was unable to recoup its early costs and lost all of its projected revenues as a result of Astroworld’s termination.

The Blast said that Scott also had to deal with a sizable tax lien in addition to the Astroworld cases. The Government said he owed more than $100,000 last year.

The rapper owing the California State Franchise Tax Board $106,968.18 for 2021, according to their records. They emphasized that more interest and fees would be charged until the lien was paid off if he did not take action quickly.

The debt became public during Scott’s Utopia concert tour. Paying the tax lien and accumulating more interest wouldn’t be a financial hardship for the rapper, whose estimated net worth is $80 million.