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Rapino’s Email Trail & Iger’s Musk Suit Headache

Live Nation’s fight to keep its C.E.O. from being deposed over the 2021 Astroworld concert tragedy appears to have backfired. Meanwhile, after a setback in the Gina Carano case, Disney is grappling with a deposition headache of its own.

Live Nation is desperately seeking to stop a deposition of C.E.O. Michael Rapino. Photo: Ethan Miller via Getty Images
Eriq Gardner
August 27, 2024

Earlier this year, on the eve of jury selection for a trial over the 2021 Astroworld Festival tragedy, when a crowd crush during a Travis Scott concert resulted in 10 deaths, the last of the victims’ families finally settled. But Live Nation, the event promoter, still faces outstanding claims from others who were injured in the melee, and those are proving more difficult to sweep away. Instead, they’ve landed Live Nation before the Texas Supreme Court, where the company is desperately seeking to stop a deposition of its C.E.O., Michael Rapino.