Artists are departing from the expertise administration firm Wasserman Group after founder and CEO Casey Wasserman appeared within the newest launch of the Epstein recordsdata. Wasserman was lengthy identified to have traveled on convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein’s aircraft in 2002, however the newest cache of paperwork revealed salacious electronic mail exchanges with Ghislaine Maxwell, the Epstein affiliate and convicted youngster intercourse trafficker. Now, as rumored, Chappell Roan has introduced her exit from the company.
“As of at present, I’m now not represented by Wasserman, the expertise company led by Casey Wasserman,” she wrote on her Instagram Story, persevering with:
I maintain my groups to the best requirements and have an obligation to guard them as properly. No artist, agent or worker ought to ever be anticipated to defend or overlook actions that battle so deeply with our personal ethical values.
I’ve deep respect and appreciation for the brokers and workers who work tirelessly for his or her artists and I refuse to passively stand by. Artists deserve illustration that aligns with their values and helps their security and dignity. This resolution displays my perception that significant change in our business requires accountability and management that earns belief.
Together with artists leaving the roster, some are providing an ultimatum, threatening to depart if Wasserman does not step down and divest or promote the corporate. Finest Coast’s Bethany Cosentino was the primary to talk in, writing in an open letter, “This can be a name for him to step down and a change of enterprise identify be imminent.”
Wasserman can be the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics Organizing Committee Chairperson (in that capability he met with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in December) and plenty of LA politicians are additionally pressuring him step down. Thus far the Olympics committee is standing by him.
Over the weekend Wasserman Group eliminated the large record of artists on their roster from their web site. Billie Eilish left the company in 2024 following allegations that Wasserman had “serial” affairs with junior workers members.
