Casey Wasserman puts talent agency up for sale after risqu emails with Ghislaine Maxwell surface: report
Sports and entertainment executive Casey Wasserman is reportedly putting his talent and marketing firm up for sale after newly surfaced emails revealed flirtatious exchanges with Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell — leading numerous big-time clients to flee.Wasserman told staffers at his eponymous agency on Friday night that he had “become a distraction” to the firm’s work, the Wall Street Journal reported.In 2003, Wasserman and Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year federal prison sentence after her sex-trafficking conviction, exchanged a series of sexually suggestive emails in 2003.In a March 16, 2003 message, Maxwell wrote, “Casey – I will be coming back to NY tom late afternoon.I shall be wearing a tight leather flying suit…”She added in a postscript, “Whilst in NY without me – What would you like to do..
What time do you land?”Wasserman replied, “I think of you all the time…” He then asked, “So what do I have to do to see you in a tight leather outfit?”In a separate email dated April 2, 2003, Wasserman wrote, “Well I thought we would start at that place that you know of, and then continue the massage concept into your bed…and then again in the morning…not sure if or when we would stop.”Wasserman’s decision to put the agency up for sale comes on the heels of several high-profile departures, including Grammy winner Chappell Roan and US women’s soccer star Abby Wambach.“I’m deeply sorry that my past personal mistakes have caused you so much discomfort,” Wasserman wrote in the memo reviewed by the Journal.“It’s not fair to you, and it’s not fair to the clients and partners we represent so vigorously and care so deeply about,” he wrote.Wasserman will stay on as chairman of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics after the organizing committee voted unanimously earlier this week to keep him on board, according to the Journal.Mike Watts, a longtime executive, will assume day-to-day control of the talent agency while...