Greatest Coast’s Bethany Cosentino, a shopper of Wasserman Music, referred to as for Casey Wasserman to step down and rebrand his administration firm after his e mail correspondence with Ghislaine Maxwell leaked as a part of the Epstein recordsdata.
The rock frontwoman wrote an open letter Thursday, stating that remorse was “not sufficient” from the leisure and music mogul.
“Remorse with out accountability is simply harm management,” Consentino wrote in her Instagram put up.
“Artists are bored with swallowing scandals like this,” she added. “We’re bored with watching hurt minimized or dismissed as ‘a very long time in the past,’ whereas the influence of that hurt remains to be very actual, particularly for girls and survivors of sexual assault.”
Her 5 web page “public refusual” went on to notice that she won’t settle for that that is “simply how issues are” within the music trade. Consentino has been represented by Wasserman Music since 2021. She requested for her band’s identify to be faraway from the web site utterly to distance herself from the CEO and founder.
“I don’t want my identify on the web site of a person who was ever a private buddy of an confederate to a literal pedophile, or related to Jeffrey Epstein himself,” she wrote, reaffirming her allegiance to her agent of 15 years Sam Hunt. “I’m within the Sam Hunt enterprise. I’m not within the Wasserman enterprise.”
Emails exchanged between Wasserman and convicted intercourse trafficker and Epstein confederate Maxwell had been launched within the Epstein recordsdata. The correspondence included private and flirtatious messages between the 2 with one e mail even asking, “So, what do I’ve to do to see you in a good leather-based outfit?”
Wasserman launched an announcement, saying he “deeply regrets (his) correspondence with Ghislaine Maxwell which passed off over 20 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,” he clarified. “As is nicely documented, I went on a humanitarian journey as a part of a delegation with the Clinton Basis in 2002 on the Epstein aircraft. I’m terribly sorry for having any affiliation with both of them.”
Cosentino will not be the primary to talk out in opposition to the businessman. A number of Los Angeles metropolis councilmembers referred to as for him to step down as chair for the LA28 Olympics committee. He has been concerned with the Olympics bid since 2017.
