PARIS (AP) — Travis Scott was released from French police custody without charge after being arrested at a Paris hotel following an altercation with a security guard, French prosecutors said on 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 was in Paris for the Olympic Games. On Thursday night, he saw the USA defeat Serbia in the men’s basketball semifinals.
Scott is one of the biggest stars in hip hop, real name Jacques Webster. He has more than 100 songs that have charted on the Billboard Hot 100 and released four chart-topping singles: “Sicko Mode,” “Highest in the Room,” “The Scotts,” and “Franchise.”
He has two children with his ex-girlfriend, media personality and businesswoman 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.
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Surk reported from Nice, France.
