Casey Wasserman’s namesake agency is rebranding following its founder’s flirtatious emails with Jeffrey Epstein’s close associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
The music and sports talent agency will now be called The Team. “We go forward as we always have: Together,” the company said on its website on Monday. The new name is stylized with a dot between the two words (“THE·TEAM”), a representative said Monday.
Wasserman, who is the agency’s CEO and chairman, announced he would sell the firm last month following mounting pressure from clients leaving for new representation in the fallout of the emails. Women’s soccer legend Abby Wambach exited the agency, saying: “Casey should resign. He should leave, so more people like me don’t have to.” Singer Chappell Roan was the largest of a number of musical artists who announced their departures amid the scandal.
The agency and its subsidiary the Montag Group represent a number of prominent athletes and broadcasters including Alex Morgan, Paige Bueckers, Breanna Stewart, Brittney Griner, Klay Thompson, Mike Tirico, Bob Costas, and Jim Nantz. The group has a particularly strong roster of female athletes.
Before Wambach left the agency, her former teammate Hope Solo posted on social media criticizing Wasserman athletes “‘known’ for using their strong, outspoken voices” who had not commented on the situation. “Their current silence is deafening,” Solo wrote.
Wasserman was one of the first public figures thrust onto the hot seat following the Department of Justice’s January release of documents related to Epstein. It was already known that Wasserman had taken Epstein’s plane in 2022, but the scandalous emails with Maxwell from 2003 were more damning. Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in Epstein’s abuse and sex trafficking of girls.
Maxwell and Wasserman discussed real estate and massages. Maxwell mentioned knowing “a few spots that apparently drive a man wild” and offered to “practice them on” Wasserman. He said he wanted to see her in “a tight leather outfit” and listed his desires as “You, me, and not else much.”
In response to the emails Wasserman said, “I deeply regret my correspondence with Ghislaine Maxwell,” that happened “long before her horrific crimes came to light. … I never had a personal or business relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. As is well documented, I went on a humanitarian trip as part of a delegation with the Clinton Foundation in 2002 on the Epstein plane. I am terribly sorry for having any association with either of them.”
Wasserman is still chair of the LA28 Olympic Committee, whose board has stood by its leader of nearly a decade amid the crisis. L.A. Mayor Karen Bass said last month that she cannot fire Wasserman, but in her opinion, he should step down. Los Angeles City Council is set to vote on Friday about whether to issue a formal resolution expressing concerns about Wasserman.
