Travis Scott appears to be the latest celebrity connected to Hollywood’s secret smear machine.
Documents show the rapper-entrepreneur’s manager coordinating with a coterie of entertainment industry operatives against an adversary by seeking out potentially discrediting information to post on a “ghost platform.”
The same individuals allegedly attacked antagonists of actress-director Rebel Wilson, music mogul Scooter Braun and wellness influencer Andrew Huberman with damaging anonymous online campaigns. (Wilson has denied involvement; Braun and Huberman haven’t commented.)
A redacted group chat from June 2024 between crisis advisor Melissa Nathan, digital fixer Jed Wallace and a third party became an exhibit earlier this year in a court case filed by publicist Stephanie Jones. That suit is related to the retaliation-centered Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni legal feud over It Ends with Us.
The Hollywood Reporter has learned the third party is David Stromberg, who has long managed Scott’s career and runs his umbrella company Cactus Jack. Other redactions in the text exchange obscure references to Astroworld, Scott’s annual music festival which in 2021 resulted in a mass-casualty crowd crush, as well as unspecified charges being dropped.
