Travis Scott has spent years selling out stadiums, but the newest story attached to his name reads like a night out that went completely off the rails. The rapper, born Jacques Webster, is being sued by the crew of a Miami yacht who say a 2024 charter turned into chaos, complete with a punch from behind, a bodyguard fired on the spot, and a captain who claims Scott told him he was going to die.
The civil suit was filed Saturday, July 11, 2026, and quickly picked up steam after court documents surfaced. Two years after the incident, three yacht workers want money for what they say Scott put them through. Here is what the paperwork actually claims.
A 105-foot boat, three guests, and a lot of alcohol
On June 19, 2024, Scott rented a 105-foot yacht named the Carpe Diem to cruise Miami’s coast. He brought along three female guests, some security, and plenty to drink. Captain Adrian Frometa was the only crew member aboard at first, and according to the lawsuit, things stayed calm for a while before they didn’t.
Frometa says Scott got more intoxicated and more aggressive as the night wore on. This was not an afternoon booze cruise either. By the time police finally showed up, the clock read around 4:30 a.m., so this whole thing played out in the pitch-dark early morning hours.
It all started over a jet ski
The whole night reportedly tipped over because of one request. Scott wanted to take a jet ski out, and the captain said no. His reasoning, according to the crew, was simple: the rapper looked too drunk to safely operate it.
That refusal did not go over well. As the complaint tells it, the “no” is what set off everything that followed. It is the kind of small moment that decides how a whole evening ends, and this one ended with handcuffs.
He allegedly jumped off the moving boat
Here is the part that sounds made up, except it is right there in the filing. After being told no on the jet ski, Scott allegedly demanded the yacht head to a nearby marina. Then, before it even docked, he jumped off the moving boat onto a dock and took off.
His guests were left sitting on the yacht for about 30 minutes waiting on him. When he finally came back, the suit says he was agitated and looking for a fight. That is the point where the captain decided he had seen enough and moved to shut the charter down early.
The captain says he got hit from behind
Once the captain told everyone the trip was over and it was time to go, the situation allegedly turned physical fast. Scott refused to get off the boat. The lawsuit lays out one specific moment in plain language: “Without any warning, Scott pushed Frometa from behind and then struck him with a closed fist to his neck and upper chest.”
The crew also claims Scott threatened to kill the captain and flat-out told him he was “dead.” According to the account from staff, one of Scott’s own security guards stepped in to calm him down. Scott’s response, the suit says, was to fire the guard right there on the deck.
Marina workers rushed in and became targets too
Once his own guard was out of the picture, additional marina workers came over to help settle things down. Instead of calming the scene, the lawsuit claims they became the next people caught in it. Scott allegedly assaulted multiple workers as they tried to leave.
The most serious claim involves a shoulder charge. As crew members tried to get off the yacht, the filing says Scott ran back toward them and drove his shoulder into two of them. One woman went crashing into a table and was hurt. The complaint also notes he shoved two crew members while they were trying to exit, sending that same woman into the furniture.
The crew says they were trapped on the boat
This is where the case gets legally interesting. The workers say Scott blocked them from leaving the yacht, which is why the lawsuit includes a false imprisonment claim on top of the assault and battery counts. That is a step beyond a bar fight. It means the crew is alleging they were physically kept from getting off the vessel.
Things got tense enough that, according to one report on the filing, the crew ended up barricading themselves in a room until police could get there. They stayed put until officers arrived and removed Scott around 4:30 in the morning.
Then he turned the mug shot into merch
Here is the detail that clearly got under the plaintiffs’ skin. After his arrest, Scott posted his mug shot on social media. Then he went a step further and sold merchandise featuring the photo.
The three plaintiffs argue that selling shirts with the booking photo “made light of the incident and the harm caused.” In other words, while they say they were dealing with physical and emotional injuries, he was cashing in on the arrest that came out of the same night. That is the kind of thing a jury tends to remember.
Who is actually suing him
There are three named plaintiffs. Boat captain Adrian Frometa is the one who says he took the punch to the neck and chest. The other two are charter managers John Steve Holguin and Mirnesa Hasanovic. All three say they walked away with physical and emotional injuries.
They are suing for battery, assault, false imprisonment, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The group is seeking unspecified financial damages, meaning they have not slapped a number on it in public, but they want Scott to pay. A representative for the rapper declined to comment when reached on Tuesday, July 14, 2026.
The criminal charges already fell apart
This is not the first time the yacht night has landed Scott in legal trouble. Back in June 2024, he was arrested at the Miami Beach Marina and charged with disorderly intoxication and trespassing. Those charges did not stick. Prosecutors dropped them, and no criminal case moved forward.
That is exactly why this new suit matters. A criminal case is about the state deciding whether to punish someone. A civil case is the workers going after Scott directly for money, on a lower burden of proof. So even though the “Sicko Mode” artist beat the criminal charges two years ago, the crew is getting a second shot at holding him responsible in a courtroom.
It fits a rough pattern of legal trouble
Scott is no stranger to lawsuits. He faced hundreds of civil claims after the 2021 Astroworld Festival in Houston, where a crowd crush left ten people dead and hundreds injured. That was a mass-casualty tragedy with a mountain of litigation behind it.
This yacht case is a different animal. It is a smaller, one-on-one and crew-wide fight, not a stadium disaster. But it adds another chapter to a legal file that keeps growing, and the specific allegations here are ugly enough to draw attention on their own.
What happens now
For now, these are allegations in a civil complaint, and Scott has not responded to the specifics in court. His camp is staying quiet, which is standard when a fresh suit lands. The workers, meanwhile, have laid out a detailed story: a refused jet ski, a jump off a moving boat, a punch from behind, a fired guard, a woman knocked into a table, and a crew hiding in a room until police arrived.
If the case goes the distance, a jury will decide whose version holds up. Selling the mug shot on a t-shirt might have felt like a good bit in 2024. In 2026, it is sitting inside a lawsuit as evidence that the people on that boat were not laughing.
