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Casey Wasserman is promoting his eponymous expertise company, per the Wall Avenue Journal. The transfer arrives after the Wasserman Group founder and CEO’s title appeared within the Jeffrey Epstein recordsdata, prompting requires his resignation and the departure of artists together with Chappell Roan, Wednesday, and Weyes Blood from his agency.
Wasserman reportedly introduced the sale on Friday (February 13) in a memo to workers, noting that he had “grow to be a distraction” to Wasserman Group’s work. Longtime company government Mike Watts will lead day-to-day operations going ahead, whereas Wasserman, who’s the chairman of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, focuses on planning the video games.
“I’m deeply sorry that my previous private errors have brought on you a lot discomfort,” the memo, reviewed by the New York Instances, learn. “It’s not honest to you, and it’s not honest to the shoppers and companions we characterize so vigorously and care so deeply about.” Pitchfork has reached out to Wasserman and the company for remark.
The Division of Justice launched the recordsdata containing Casey Wasserman’s title on January 30, after which he issued an preliminary apology. The paperwork revealed flirtatious emails between Wasserman and Ghislaine Maxwell and particulars of a 2002 flight Wasserman took to Africa on Epstein’s personal aircraft, as a part of a humanitarian journey organized by former President Invoice Clinton. Maxwell is serving a 20-year federal jail sentence for conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse minor ladies; Epstein died by suicide in a New York jail in 2019 after he was convicted of intercourse trafficking.
The revelation of Wasserman’s affiliation with Epstein and Maxwell has triggered vital fallout at his firm, with Wasserman-represented artists Bethany Cosentino, Seashore Bunny, Water From Your Eyes, and Salute demanding he step down as CEO. “I didn’t consent to having my title or my profession tied to somebody with this sort of affiliation to exploitation,” Cosentino wrote. Because the launch of the recordsdata, Odesza, Orville Peck, Native Natives, Bully’s Alicia Bognanno, Dropkick Murphys, and Chelsea Cutler have all reduce ties with the agency.
Wasserman based his company in 2002; the expertise administration group oversees a whole bunch of high-profile musicians and sports activities gamers, together with Kendrick Lamar, Coldplay, Skrillex, and Animal Collective. Final weekend, an artist roster was faraway from Wasserman’s web site.
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