“Any type of contention that this was a mere business agreement flies in the face of the multitude of facts that say otherwise,” Womack’s lawyer, Paul Matiasic, tells Rolling Stone. Womack’s new documents say that FAE “undertook the task of controlling and managing personal life,” including his “eating, drinking, sleeping, allowing for his personal hygiene, procuring driver’s license/identification cards … living arrangements, buying and providing furniture, co-signing leases, securing and paying for utilities, money management, budgeting, paying taxes, identifying, paying for, transporting, and accessing health care providers and therapists, exercise, social activities, drug use, personal safety, and well-being.” Åhr, nor does it cover managing or controlling his personal life, including his use of drugs.”īut on Monday, December 30th, a week after FAE filed its response, Womack filed an amended complaint that fires back at the label’s claim that its business agreement with Peep was “arm’s length” in nature. “The JVA does not cover personal or protection services to Mr. Åhr was purely contractual and purely business,” FAE’s lawyers write. But in last week’s response to Womack’s lawsuit, FAE repeatedly stresses that its relationship with Lil Peep was a strict “arms’ length business arrangement,” as constituted in their joint-venture agreement.įAE’s response points to a clause of the joint-venture agreement that states that “each party is responsible for its own actions and will not be jointly and severally liable for the actions of the other Party.” The company’s “ relationship with Mr.
“I felt very protective of him from day one,” Stennett told Rolling Stone earlier this year. Relationships between Lil Peep and FAE were “purely of a business nature and not the type of special relationship giving rise to an independent duty of care for one’s safety and/or well-being,” FAE claims in court documents.įAE CEO Sarah Stennett has, in the past, claimed a personal interest in her client Lil Peep. operations of the music company, respectively - state in a 44-page filing that, under the contract that the company signed with Lil Peep, FAE was never legally responsible for the rapper’s well-being, citing precedents like the 2013 case by Michael Jackson’s estate against AEG Live as examples of music companies’ limited scope of responsibility in their artists’ personal conduct. In October 2019, Åhr’s mother, Liza Womack, filed a lawsuit against First Access Entertainment, the management and label services company that signed the rapper to a multiyear contract in 2016, claiming that it played a part in her son’s death - specifically, by allegedly pushing him “onto stage after stage in city after city, plying and propping him up” with illegal drugs and having him sign an “asymmetrical joint-venture business enterprise” in which the company also breached contract on multiple counts.ħ0 Greatest Music Documentaries of All Timeįirst Access Entertainment is now disputing all claims, including negligence, breach of contract, and wrongful death, according to documents filed on December 23rd in Los Angeles Superior Court and reviewed by Rolling Stone.Īttorneys representing FAE Limited and FAE LLC - the U.K. Medical examiners ruled his death as an accidental overdose of Xanax and fentanyl.
Åhr had just celebrated his 21st birthday his particular brand of intimate, emo-studded rap was eliciting favorable critical comparisons to Kurt Cobain and propelling him up the music charts. Lil Peep, real name Gustav Elijah Åhr, died on a tour bus in Tucson, Arizona, in November 2017. But looming over all those projects is a legal question about the circumstances of Peep’s death - and the music industry’s role in it. Honoring the second anniversary of Lil Peep’s death this past November were, among other things, a documentary, a pop-up merchandise store, and a full-length posthumous album commemorating the young rapper’s short-lived career.
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