Lil Peep’s mom scored a sizable legal victory Wednesday when a judge upheld her negligence and wrongful death claims against her son’s record label and the tour manager who was traveling with the emo rapper when he overdosed and died on a bus in Arizona four years ago.
At a court hearing in Los Angeles, Judge Teresa A. Beaudet shot down label First Access Entertainment’s request to dismiss the claims on the grounds that mom Liza Kathryn Womack, the executor of her son’s estate, failed to show any “causal connection” between FAE’s alleged negligence and Peep’s tragic demise from a deadly cocktail of fentanyl and Xanax.
In her lengthy ruling, Judge Beaudet said that while she agreed with FAE that portions of a highly damaging statement from Peep’s fellow musician Cold Hart were indeed inadmissible hearsay in the civil case, the court’s decision to pare down Cold…
