Travis Scott Released From Custody After Confrontation at a Paris Hotel

The rapper Travis Scott was released from police custody on Saturday, a day after he was detained following a confrontation with a security guard at a Paris hotel, prosecutors said.

Scott, 33, whose birth name is Jacques Bermon Webster II, had been detained on Friday after prosecutors said he had assaulted a security guard at the George V, a luxury hotel in the city’s Eighth Arrondissement. No charges were filed against him, according to the prosecutor’s office.

The office said in a statement on Saturday that “the case opened on the grounds of assault was dropped as the offense was not sufficiently substantiated.”

Scott, a multiplatinum rapper, was visiting the city for the Summer Olympics when the confrontation took place.

The prosecutor’s office said, “The security guard had intervened to separate the rapper from his bodyguard.” Additional details about the confrontation were unavailable.

Scott had posted photos on social media from the crowd of the men’s U.S. basketball team during their game against Serbia on Thursday.

In June, Scott was arrested in Miami Beach, Fla., after causing a disturbance on a docked yacht, according to the police. He was released after paying a $650 bond for charges of trespassing and disorderly intoxication after the police responded to reports of people fighting on the vessel.

Hours later, Scott began selling T-shirts that featured his mug shot, with a caption that read “It’s Miami,” which he was quoted as saying in the police report.

The future of Scott’s career was cast in doubt after 10 of his fans died and hundreds were injured during a crowd crush at the rapper’s concert, which was part of the Astroworld music festival in Houston in 2021.

A grand jury later declined to indict Scott and settlements were reached in multiple lawsuits stemming from the deaths.

Aurelien Breeden contributed reporting from Paris.