Music and sports talent and marketing company Wasserman Agency has rebranded to The·Team after its founder and former CEO, Casey Wasserman, was named in the Jeffrey Epstein files earlier this year.
The company is also currently in the process of being sold after severing all ties with Wasserman. Wasserman Agency’s original website now reroutes to a new URL and displays the message: “As of today [9 March], Wasserman is rebranding as The·Team and you can now find us at the.team. For 24 years, this company has been shaped by our work, our people and our unifying belief in the power of sports, music and entertainment. That philosophy remains the foundation of who we are – and where we are going. We go forward as we always have: Together.”
“We remain completely focused on serving our clients with the same professionalism that has always been our standard,” the company said in a statement provided to The Hollywood Reporter.
Casey Wasserman sent a memo to staff last month telling them that he felt he had “become a distraction”, and that he would thus begin the process of selling the company. It came after flirtatious email exchanges between the businessman and the now jailed Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, which dated back to the early 2000s, were released online as the US Justice Department continues to share evidence it gathered in relation to the crimes of Maxwell and the late pedophile and child sex trafficker Epstein.
A number of artists cut ties to the agency following this disclosure, including Chappell Roan, Sylvan Esso, Wednesday and Orville Peck.
The·Team, as its now known, is one of the largest talent agencies in the music business, and represents some of the world’s biggest artists. A list showing the company’s extensive roster of talent was removed from its website following the disclosure of Wasserman’s name in the Epstein files, and has not yet been added to the renamed business’ new website.
