NEW YORK _ The mom of late Long Island rapper Lil Peep has filed an amended wrongful death lawsuit that adds a new claim for breach of implied contract.
The new complaint, filed in Los Angeles, claims her son's managers violated an "implied understanding" when they allegedly entrusted his day-to-day care to "unqualified, incompetent and unfit" people "with a propensity to engage in, encourage, supply, and promote illicit drug use."
The emo-rap phenomenon, whose real name was Gustav Ahr, died from an overdose Nov. 15, 2017, after falling unconscious on a tour bus in Arizona.
The Pima County medical examiner ruled his death an accidental overdose of fentanyl and Xanax.
Devastated mom Liza Womack, the daughter of Harvard historian John Womack Jr., filed her original complaint in October.
The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court named Lil Peep's management firms First Access Entertainment and The HYV as lead defendants.
In a statement, a rep for First Access Entertainment called the allegations in the original complaint "categorically untrue."
"In fact, we consistently encouraged Peep to stop abusing drugs and to distance himself from the negative influence of the drug users and enablers with whom he chose to associate," the statement said.
"It is extremely disappointing that Peep's mother would file this meritless lawsuit," the statement said.
"In spite of our best efforts, he was an adult who made his own decisions," the statement continued.
"While First Access is deeply saddened by Lil Peep's untimely death, we will not hesitate to defend ourselves against this groundless and offensive lawsuit. We look forward to its swift dismissal," it said.
According to Womack, the defendants "normalized" and "promoted" her son's drug use, in part "to maintain a certain degree of control" over him.
The amended complaint filed last Friday also accuses First Access of "usurping" the direction of her son's career and then "failing to account and distribute to decedent his share of the total joint venture profits."
Attempts to reach a spokesperson for FAE were not immediately successful Tuesday.
Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times more potent than heroin, was also cited in the overdose deaths of rapper Mac Miller and music icons Prince and Tom Petty.
Three men have been criminally charged with supplying the fentanyl-laced pills that led to Miller's death.
No criminal charges have been filed in Lil Peep's death.
Michael Jackson's family unsuccessfully sued his concert promoter AEG Live for wrongful death after the superstar singer died from an accidental overdose of a surgery strength anesthetic in 2009.
Womack's lawsuit seeks unspecified damages.
