{"id":491024,"date":"2019-10-08T10:12:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T16:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=896348"},"modified":"2019-10-08T10:12:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T16:12:50","slug":"lil-peeps-mom-sues-late-rappers-managers-over-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/lil-peeps-mom-sues-late-rappers-managers-over-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Peep\u2019s Mom Sues Late Rapper\u2019s Managers Over Death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lil Peep<\/a>\u2019s mother, Liza Womack, has filed a lawsuit against the late rapper\u2019s managers for negligence, breach of contract and wrongful death, The New York Times<\/em><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

The suit alleges that Peep\u2019s handlers ignored his physical and mental health, and instead pushed the rapper, whose real name was Gustav Ahr, \u201conto stage after stage in city after city, plying and propping him up\u201d with illegal drugs and unprescribed medication. The suit was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court and is seeking unspecified damages.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is something that I must do as a mother,\u201d Womack told the Times<\/em>. \u201cI feel very concerned that they not be exploited. What Gus had to live through is actually horrifying to me, and I\u2019m sure he\u2019s not the only person his age in this situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The suit specifically names Peep\u2019s former label\/management company, First Access Entertainment, and its chief executive Sarah Stennett. It also includes Bryant Ortega (also known as Chase), a member of Peep\u2019s management team, and Belinda Mercer, who worked as Lil Peep\u2019s tour manager during his final run in fall 2017. (Stennett, Ortega and Mercer did not immediately reply to Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s requests for comment.)<\/p>\n

Ahr died<\/a> from an overdose<\/a> of fentanyl and Xanax in November 2017 while he was on tour at the age of 21. Womack\u2019s suit alleges that throughout 2017, Peep was \u201cstressed, overwhelmed, burnt out, exhausted and physically unwell,\u201d but that Stennett and First Access \u201cfostered, promoted and encouraged\u201d drug use in order to maintain control over the rapper.<\/p>\n

The suit alleges that Stennett gave Ahr a bottle of unspecified pills as a gift during a 2017 dinner, while it also cites text messages from her, in which she tells him she has two different doses of Xanax pills for him. It also claims that Ahr was in a sexual relationship with Mercer while she was his tour manager, and that Mercer allegedly provided the rapper with drugs, including ketamine. In addition, the suit alleges that, on the night Ahr died, Mercer and others saw that the rapper looked \u201calarmingly unwell,\u201d but ultimately declined to seek help.<\/p>\n

Much of the lawsuit pulls from David Peisner\u2019s Rolling Stone<\/em> feature<\/a> on Lil Peep\u2019s final days. In that story, Stennett denied, via a lawyer, that she gave Ahr pills. She also claimed she didn\u2019t know what kind of drugs people were using on the bus, and that she and Ortega repeatedly encouraged Peep to seek counseling.<\/p>\n

Much of the case will hinge on whether or not Womack can prove that First Access Entertainment purposefully facilitated Peep\u2019s drug use, or that they had an obligation to look out for him and did not adequately do so. While Womack\u2019s lawyer, Paul A. Matiasic, acknowledged that that Lil Peep \u201chad a role\u201d in his own death, he said that \u201cevaluating the legal responsibility for someone\u2019s untimely death \u2026 is not a binary decision.\u201d He argued that First Access had the power, influence and control over Lil Peep\u2019s career and that, \u201cThere are duties associated with having that type of control.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lil Peep\u2019s mother, Liza Womack, has filed a lawsuit against the late rapper\u2019s managers for negligence, breach of contract and wrongful death, The New York Times reports. The suit alleges that Peep\u2019s handlers ignored his physical and mental health, and instead pushed the rapper, whose real name was Gustav Ahr, \u201conto stage after stage in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-21 22:00:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}