After Casey Wasserman’s ties to Ghislaine Maxwell had been revealed within the newest batch of the Epstein Information, musicians on Wasserman Group’s roster have been reckoning. Chappell Roan, Wednesday, Water From Your Eyes, Weyes Blood, Orville Peck, and extra have departed from the expertise company, whereas others, akin to Greatest Coast’s Bethany Cosentino, have threatened to go away if the CEO and founder would not step down. Yesterday, The Wall Road Journal reported that Casey Wasserman is placing the corporate up on the market.
“I am deeply sorry that my previous private errors have prompted you a lot discomfort,” Wasserman wrote in a memo despatched to employees final night time, reviewed by WSJ. “It isn’t truthful to you, and it is not truthful to the purchasers and companions we characterize so vigorously and care so deeply about.”
He mentioned he felt he’d “grow to be a distraction” from the agency’s work and had begun the method of promoting Wasserman Group. He’s chairman of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, and sources instructed WSJ that the committee organizing the video games earlier this week voted unanimously to hold him as chairman. He added that longtime government Mike Watts could be in command of day-to-day management of Wasserman as he focuses on planning the 2028 Olympics.
The memo mentioned that his 2002 humanitarian journey on Epstein’s non-public jet with Maxwell, Epstein, Invoice Clinton and others came about “years earlier than their prison conduct got here to gentle.” He mentioned he was “heartbroken that my transient contact with them 23 years in the past has prompted you, this firm, and its purchasers a lot hardship over the previous days and weeks.”
Together with the humanitarian journey, Wasserman had engaged in some flirtatious e-mail exchanges across the similar time with Maxwell, who in 2022 was sentenced to twenty years in jail after being discovered responsible of kid intercourse trafficking with Epstein.
In his unique response made earlier this month, Wasserman wrote, “I deeply remorse my correspondence with Ghislaine Maxwell which came about over twenty years in the past, lengthy earlier than her horrific crimes got here to gentle. I by no means had a private or enterprise relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. As is properly documented, I went on a humanitarian journey as a part of a delegation with the Clinton Basis in 2002 on the Epstein airplane. I’m terribly sorry for having any affiliation with both of them.”
