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Chappell Roan is leaving expertise company Wasserman Music. Final month, the company’s CEO and founder, Casey Wasserman, appeared in a trove of Division of Justice paperwork associated to baby intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“I maintain my groups to the best requirements and have an obligation to guard them as effectively,” Roan wrote. “No artist, agent, or worker ought to ever be anticipated to defend or overlook actions that battle so deeply with our personal ethical values.”
The “Good Luck, Babe!” singer stated she revered and appreciated employees on the company however that the choice mirrored her “perception that significant change in our business requires accountability and management that earns belief.”
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Roan didn’t explicitly point out Epstein in her publish, but it surely comes after The Wrap and The Hollywood Reporter reported about turmoil contained in the company over the CEO’s look within the information.
Representatives for Wasserman Music didn’t reply to a request for remark. The CEO has beforehand stated he regrets the affiliation.
Wasserman appeared in the newest tranche of Epstein-related paperwork launched by the DOJ. Showing within the information doesn’t essentially recommend that an individual has engaged in wrongdoing.
The paperwork included flirtatious e mail exchanges between Wasserman and Ghislaine Maxwell from 2003.
Maxwell was convicted in December 2021 of 5 counts associated to a intercourse trafficking scheme involving minors with Epstein. She was sentenced to twenty years in jail in 2022.
Wasserman, who can also be the chairman of LA28, the organizing committee for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, apologized in an announcement on January 31.
“I deeply remorse my correspondence with Ghislaine Maxwell, which passed off over twenty years in the past, lengthy earlier than her horrific crimes got here to gentle,” he stated. “I by no means had a private or enterprise relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. As is effectively 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.”
Roan, whose identify is Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, has been repped by the expertise company Wasserman since 2023. She is the newest star to go away the company amidst the Epstein fallout. The artists Seaside Bunny, Wednesday, and Bethany Cosentino from Greatest Coast walked away from the company prior to now week. In 2024, Billie Eilish left the company for different causes.