Travis Scott, second from left, watches an Olympic men’s basketball game between France and Germany in Paris on Thursday. The rapper was released from police custody on Saturday, a day after he was arrested following an altercation at a Paris hotel. Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press
PARIS – Travis Scott was released from French police custody without charge a day after the rapper was arrested following an altercation with a security guard at a Paris hotel, French prosecutors said Saturday.
A statement from the Paris prosecutor’s office said: “The police custody order for Travis Scott has been lifted and all proceedings (against him) have been discontinued as it was a minor incident.”
Scott was arrested early Friday after police were called to the Georges V hotel to arrest a man nicknamed Travis Scott for violence against a security guard, according to a statement from the Paris prosecutor’s office. The hotel’s security guard had intervened in the altercation between the rapper and his bodyguard.
The rapper, whose real name is Jacques Webster, was in Paris for the Olympic Games and watched the United States defeat Serbia in the men’s basketball semifinals on Thursday night.
Scott is one of the biggest stars in hip hop. More than 100 of his songs have charted on the Billboard Hot 100, and four chart-topping singles: “Sicko Mode,” “Highest in the Room,” “The Scotts,” and “Franchise.”
He has two children with his ex-girlfriend Kylie Jenner.
In June, Scott was arrested in Miami Beach on charges of trespassing and public intoxication. Cops said they caught him shouting obscenities at people on a yacht in the city’s marina and refusing to comply with their orders to leave.
Surk reported from Nice, France.
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