Lil Peep negligence case to proceed to trial
completemusicupdate.comAn LA judge has declined to dismiss the negligence and wrongful death claims made by the mother of the late rapper Lil Peep against her son’s former management company First Access Entertainment.
Lawyers for the management firm had argued that those claims were too weak to proceed to trial, but judge Teresa A Beaudet does not concur.Lil Peep, real name Gustav Åhr, died in November 2017 of an accidental drugs overdose, aged 21.
His mother, Liza Womack, sued First Access in 2019 accusing the company and its associates of negligence and other breaches of contract that contributed to her son’s death.
The management firm, she claimed, “allowed, normalised, and even encouraged and promoted” drug taking on her son’s tours, despite being aware of his addiction issues.First Access has denied many of the specific allegations made in Womack’s lawsuit, although in its formal response to the litigation mainly focused on legal issues, arguing that both the negligence and breach of contract claims in Womack’s legal filing failed as a matter of law.As the case proceeded, as well as seeking to have the negligence and wrongful death claims dismissed entirely, the management firm also sought to have some of the evidence gathered in relation to the case sealed or declared inadmissible.Nearly 400 pages of evidence was published by the court last month, including seven pages First Access had specifically requested not be made public.
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