Rapper Travis Scott was arrested at a Paris hotel after an altercation with a security guard, French prosecutors said Friday.
The arrest occurred after police were called to the Georges V hotel early Friday to arrest a man “nicknamed Travis Scott for violence against a security guard”, according to a statement from the Paris public prosecutor’s office.
The hotel security guard had intervened in an altercation between the rapper and his own bodyguard, the statement said. Various sources within the French media have claimed that Scott was drunk.
The prosecutor’s office has “referred the case to the 1st district of the judicial police”. Police are still investigating.
The rapper was in Paris for the Olympics. He watched the US rally over Serbia in the men’s basketball semifinal on Thursday night.
In June, Scott was arrested in Miami and charged with trespassing on property and disorderly intoxication. The 33-year-old had been involved with “a disturbance on a yacht”. His lawyer later claimed the situation had been a “misunderstanding”.
In 2023, Scott was accused of assaulting a nightclub worker in New York City and reportedly settled with the club later.
Scott, one of the biggest names in hip hop whose birth name is Jacques Webster, has more than 100 songs that made the Billboard Hot 100 and released four singles that topped the chart: Sicko Mode, Highest in the Room, The Scotts and Franchise.
He has two children with his former girlfriend, media personality and businesswoman Kylie Jenner.
Scott has yet to comment on the arrest.