Chappell Roan minimize ties along with her company Wasserman on Monday after CEO Casey Wasserman appeared within the Epstein information final week.
“No artist, agent or worker needs to be anticipated to defend or overlook actions that battle so deeply with our personal ethical values,” the Grammy winner wrote on Instagram.
TheWrap wrote on Sunday that Roan was anticipated to chop ties with the company over CEO Wasserman’s look within the Epstein information and his salacious messages with convicted intercourse offender and Jeffrey Epstein ally Ghislaine Maxwell.
“As of right this moment, I’m not represented by Wasserman, the expertise company led by Casey Wasserman,” Roan wrote in her assertion.
“I maintain my groups to the best requirements and have an obligation to guard them as nicely. No artist, agent or worker ought to ever be anticipated to defend or overlook actions that battle so deeply with our personal ethical values,” she continued. “I’ve deep respect and appreciation for the brokers and employees who work tirelessly for his or her artist and I refuse to passively stand by. Artists deserve illustration that aligns with their values and helps their security and dignity. This determination displays my perception that significant change in our business requires accountability and management that earns belief.”
Roan’s exit from Wasserman’s music empire got here as the manager faces mounting inner strain from outstanding staffers at his namesake company to exit the corporate himself following the Epstein revelations.
A gaggle of music brokers at Wasserman are demanding that the founder and CEO step down from the corporate, in response to two people who spoke to TheWrap — amongst them music brokers Duffy McSwiggin, SVP of Music at Wasserman, and senior agent Marty Diamond.
McSwiggin represents Joni Mitchell, OK Go and Lake Road Dive. Diamond represents Coldplay and different acts.
The brokers have offered Wasserman with an ultimatum to promote them the music enterprise and go away or they may go away the company themselves, in response to the people. Wasserman, initially a sports-focused company, acquired the music enterprise from Paradigm in 2021.
Roan is one in all a number of artists to talk out and take motion in opposition to Wasserman of late. Additionally on Monday, indie rock group Wednesday introduced they’re “extracting” themselves from Wasserman over his Epstein ties. And final week, the frontwoman for the band Finest Coast, Bethany Cosentino, referred to as on Wasserman to step down over his emails to Maxwell.
Billie Eilish, in the meantime, left the company over the CEO’s alleged extramarital affairs final yr.
