US EditionWasserman Agency to Be Renamed After Founder Casey Wasserman Sells His Stake
- In a staff memo, Casey Wasserman announced he will step down and began selling the company, apologizing for his past personal mistakes.
- The move follows revelations about 2003 emails linked to Ghislaine Maxwell, prompting client walkouts and calls for resignation by some Southern California political leaders.
- On Friday night, Wasserman named company president Mike Watts as interim leader, and Providence, the majority investor, endorsed the transition and expressed confidence in Watts.
- The agency will be renamed after Wasserman's exit, and Providence Equity Partners, which holds more than 60%, is discussing the firm's new moniker while Casey Wasserman's roughly 40% stake may be sold to Providence or a third party.
- The LA28 board said earlier this week it will continue backing Wasserman as chair even as Watts runs day-to-day operations, prompting speculation among rival agencies monitoring the roster.
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said in a CNN interview Monday that she believes Cassey Wasserman should step down as chair of the LA28 Olympics Organizing Committee, breaking weeks of silence on this issue. “My opinion is that he should step down,” Bass told CNN’s Dana Bash. She added that while the LA28 board has discretion over its leadership, she did not support its recent decision to keep Wasserman in place. “The board made a decision. I think…
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LOS ANGELES >> Casey Wasserman, a Los Angeles entertainment executive and chair of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics whose name recently surfaced in the Epstein files, said late Friday that he has started the process of selling the talent agency he founded more than two decades ago.
Casey Wasserman, Radioactive With Epstein Fallout, Says He Will Sell His Agency
Weeks after his flirty correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein's close associate Ghislaine Maxwell was released for the world to see, Hollywood mogul, superagent, and Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Committee chairperson Casey Wasserman announced that he will sell his eponymous talent agency. In a Friday news-dump memo to the 4,000-odd Wasserman employees, the 51-year-old executive said, "I’m deeply sorry that my past personal mistakes have caused you so m…
Casey Wasserman is selling his shares in the eponymous company he founded. The influential sports agent announced this weekend that his international talent and marketing agency is up for sale. This decision comes after he was mentioned in U.S. government documents released on January 30 concerning Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased billionaire implicated in human trafficking and child sex offenses. The files reveal that Wasserman allegedly traveled …
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