American rapper arrested at Four Seasons George V in Paris after hotel fight with bodyguard

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American rapper Travis Scott has been arrested in Paris following a fight in a hotel with his bodyguard, French authorities say. Police were called to the luxurious Four Seasons Hotel George V in Paris at 5am local time to break up the fight, they said.

Four Seasons George V in Paris. According to CNN, “Scott was arrested for ‘violence against a security guard,’ the Paris prosecutor’s office said later on Friday. The security guard had tried to break up a fight between the rapper and his bodyguard, according to a spokesman with the prosecutor, who added that an investigation had been opened.”

The Independent reports that “a police source told Paris journalist Peter Allen that Scott had been taken into custody but that his ‘condition did not initially allow him to be questioned’. According to The Mirror, another source told Allen: ‘The suspect was drunk and had been fighting with another man – possibly a receptionist in the hotel. He was not in the right condition to be questioned straight away, so was put in a cell where he is still sobering up.’”

Scott, whose real name is Jacques Bermon Webster II, and who shares two children, Stormi and Aire, with Kylie Jenner, was in Paris for the Olympic games. He attended the men’s basketball semi-final on Thursday, in which the United States beat Serbia.

Scott is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer who has had four number-one hits on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, accompanied by over 100 songs that have also made the charts. He has been nominated for 10 Grammy Awards, including Best Rap Song (2019), Best Album (2022) and Best Rap Album (2024).

This isn’t the first time this summer that Scott has had a run-in with police. According to People, “on June 20, Scott was arrested in Miami on charges of disorderly intoxication and trespassing on a property after a warning, according to public records.

Mr. Scott was briefly detained due to a misunderstanding,” his attorney Bradford Cohen said in a statement at the time. “There was absolutely no physical altercation involved, and we thank the authorities for working with us towards a swift and amicable resolution.”

Regarding Friday’s Paris incident, an investigation is underway.

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