Travis Scott has hired a popular Los Angeles lawyer in the wake of the lethal Astroworld Competition concert and is offering to pay out funeral prices of those people who died at the Nov. 5 display in Houston.
Scott’s new legal professional, Daniel Petrocelli, on the day ahead of Thanksgiving emailed the supply to legal professionals for the 10 victims who died due to the fact of a crowd surge through the rapper’s concert. Hundreds of other supporters were being hurt.
Much more than three weeks immediately after the live performance at NRG Park, Scott and other defendants confront some 120 civil wrongful dying, particular injury and premises legal responsibility lawsuits. Petrocelli, 68, head of litigation for worldwide corporate legislation company O’Melveny & Myers, is recognized for representing higher-profile clients and reportedly charges $1,500 an hour.
Petrocelli did not respond to a request for an interview. But in the emailed supply, he mentioned Scott “is devastated by the tragedy” and grieves for the victims’ beloved types.
In an email to Corpus Christi lawyer Bob Hilliard, who signifies the spouse and children of Ezra Blount, a 9-calendar year-previous Dallas boy who died days after he was crushed at the live performance, Petrocelli said the rapper does not want to intrude on the family’s privateness.
“Travis asked me to arrive at out on his behalf to increase his deepest sympathies and condolences to Mr. Blount for the decline of his beloved son Ezra,” Petrocelli wrote.
“Travis is fully commited to undertaking his portion to assistance the people who have experienced and begin the extensive procedure of therapeutic in the Houston group,” Petrocelli wrote. “Toward that conclusion, Travis would like to shell out for the funeral charges for Mr. Blount’s son.”
Hilliard rejected the offer you: “Your client’s supply is declined,” he claimed in an e mail, incorporating that the rapper’s “journey ahead will be painful.”
Petrocelli burst onto the national scene in 1997, when he represented the father of Ron Goldman in a wrongful death lawsuit versus O.J. Simpson. A jury awarded Fred Goldman $8.5 million.
In 2002, Dallas rocker Don Henley employed Petrocelli to correctly fend off wrongful firing fees levied by Eagles’ guitarist Don Felder. Two yrs afterwards, Petrocelli defended previous Enron CEO Jeff Skilling towards legal fraud and insider-trading expenses. Skilling was convicted. In 2018, Petrocelli served as the direct demo attorney for Dallas-based AT&T and Time Warner in the federal government’s unsuccessful antitrust lawsuit seeking to cease the merger of the two organizations.
“Dan is an totally fantastic, elite trial law firm,” stated Rob Walters, a spouse at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, who was co-counsel with Petrocelli in the AT&T circumstance. “Dan has an uncanny capacity of setting up the moral significant floor, which resonates nicely with simple fact-finders.”
“Dan and Neal will be a formidable workforce in court in this litigation,” said Walters, referring to Susman Godfrey husband or wife Neal Manne, who has been hired by Astroworld Festival promoter Dwell Country.
A lot more than 120 lawsuits determining about 600 plaintiffs have been submitted in district courts in Harris County. Overall damages sought exceed $3 billion.
The grievances accuse Scott, Stay Nation and additional than a dozen other defendants of gross carelessness by making an ecosystem that incited the crowd of countless numbers to surge ahead towards the stage, basically squeezing the breath from concertgoers in front of them.
Scott also has employed Houston prison defense lawyer Kent Schaffer. ASM Global, which manages the NRG venue for the Harris County Sporting activities and Convention Corp., has hired Norton Rose Fulbright.
Other defendants include Valle Security Expert services, which supplied security at the function, and tech large Apple, which livestreamed the show all-around the entire world. Valle Stability and Apple did not react to inquiries about the employing of outside the house counsel.
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