{"id":231461,"date":"2026-02-09T21:11:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/02\/09\/wasserman-fallout-continues-dropkick-murphys-more-clients-slam-founder-over-abhorrent-disturbing-epstein-ties\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T21:11:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:11:43","slug":"wasserman-fallout-continues-dropkick-murphys-more-clients-slam-founder-over-abhorrent-disturbing-epstein-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/02\/09\/wasserman-fallout-continues-dropkick-murphys-more-clients-slam-founder-over-abhorrent-disturbing-epstein-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasserman Fallout Continues: Dropkick Murphys & More Clients Slam Founder Over \u2018Abhorrent & Disturbing\u2019 Epstein\u00a0Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tIn the wake of Best Coast singer Bethany Cosentino\u2019s public demand<\/a> for Casey Wasserman<\/strong> to step down as CEO of his powerful Wasserman agency over his association with convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Epstein\u2019s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, more of the agency\u2019s artists have begun calling for accountability.<\/p>\n

\n\tOver the past few days, a handful of prominent indie acts, including Water From Your Eyes, Wednesday, Beach Bunny and Dropkick Murphys, have followed Cosentino\u2019s lead in speaking out against Wasserman in various ways, including by calling on him to resign \u2014\u00a0with some threatening to depart the agency if he doesn\u2019t do so first, and at least one act noting that they already have. (Notably, as of Monday evening, Feb. 9, Wasserman had scrubbed its client list from its website.)<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tBest Coast\u2019s Bethany Cosentino Demands Casey Wasserman Step Down From His Agency Over Epstein Ties: \u2018Pretending This Isn\u2019t a Big Deal Is Not an\u00a0Option\u2019\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n

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\n\tCosentino\u2019s post arrived after a tranche of more than 3 million files related to the Epstein investigation was released by the Department of Justice on Jan. 30. In those files, Wasserman, who launched his agency in 1998, was found to have exchanged dozens of friendly, flirtatious and occasionally sexually-charged emails with Maxwell, now serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex-trafficking, in 2003. Previously known were Wasserman\u2019s ties to Epstein himself: More than two decades ago, several years before Epstein\u2019s crimes were known to the public, New York<\/a><\/em> reported that Wasserman and his then-wife, Laura Ziffren, flew on Epstein\u2019s plane on an AIDS fact-finding mission to Africa in 2002 \u2014 a trip that also included such luminaries as President Bill Clinton and actors Chris Tucker and Kevin Spacey.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI deeply regret my correspondence with Ghislaine Maxwell which took place over two decades ago, long before her horrific crimes came to light,\u201d Wasserman, who is also chair of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee, said in a statement on Thursday (Feb. 5). \u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWasserman\u2019s apology has apparently rung hollow for several of the agency\u2019s artists. Over the weekend, long-running Irish-American rockers Dropkick Murphys (Ken Casey, Matt Kelly, James Lynch, Tim Brennan, Jeff DaRosa, Kevin Rheault and Al Barr) announced via a now-inactive Instagram Stories post (confirmed to be legitimate by a spokesperson for the band) that the group had already \u201cparted ways with\u201d the Wasserman agency over the issue. \u201cIt saddens us to part ways with [our agents], but the namesake of the agency is in the Epstein files so\u2026we GONE,\u201d the band wrote in the post, for which screengrabs<\/a> are available online.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Monday (Feb. 9), more artists followed. Rachel Brown, vocalist of indie pop duo Water From Your Eyes (which also includes Nate Amos), stated on Instagram<\/a> that Wasserman\u2019s \u201c\u2018deepest regrets\u2019 and PR apologies mean nothing in the wake of violence against women and children caused by Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and their accomplices. There must be accountability for the atrocities committed by the ruling class. We cannot live in a world that allows for this injustice to occur with no consequence.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNate, myself and our manager Nik have no interest in being affiliated with Casey Wasserman and have absolutely zero intention of condoning his actions by silently remaining under his namesake banner,\u201d Brown continued. \u201cWe trust our booking agents and are waiting to understand what our options are.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso on Monday, rock band Wednesday made a point of acknowledging the \u201cdecent and trustworthy people\u201d they work with at the agency, \u201cwith whom we\u2019ve worked for several years dating back to a time prior to their connection with Wasserman,\u201d\u00a0before noting that the band intends \u201cto begin the process of extracting ourselves from\u201d the agency. \u201cContinuing to be represented by a company led by and named after Casey Wasserman goes against our values and cannot continue,\u201d the band continued in the Instagram post<\/a>. \u201cFor the sake of his staff we hope that he steps down from the company and it is rebranded, but until that happens or we find a new home at a new agency we will not continue to be associated with Wasserman.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn its own Instagram post<\/a> on Monday, Chicago rock band Beach Bunny \u2014 composed of Lili Trifilio, Jon Alvarado and Anthony Vaccaro \u2014 wrote that the group is \u201chugely disappointed and disgusted\u201d to learn of Wasserman\u2019s association with Maxwell, adding that his \u201cactions are abhorrent and disturbing on every level\u201d and that he must \u201cremove himself and his name from the agency.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA lengthier and more nuanced take on the situation came from Alexis Kruass of the Brooklyn duo Sleigh Bells, who argued that the band\u2019s \u201cability to make a living in this industry is dependent on our engagement with\u201d companies including Wasserman, Spotify and Live Nation \u2014 and that cutting ties with them would only hurt the group financially without moving the needle.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWould I love to just leave Wasserman Music? Yes I would. Can we? No because I love and respect our agent and I trust him to make the decision that is best for himself, his family and his artists,\u201d Krauss wrote<\/a>. \u201cThe agents at Wasserman are not the villains.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCall me spineless but this my truth,\u201d Krauss continued. \u201cThis is the hypocrisy of our realities as we try to do the least harm in an unscrupulous system. Could I do more to hold these individuals and corporations accountable? Absolutely. Do I have the capacity to? No I don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn my opinion it\u2019s not the responsibility of the artists, especially those struggling to make a living, to fix these broken systems,\u201d Krauss added. \u201cI\u2019m not saying we\u2019re powerless, but without systemic change and accountability for those at the highest levels of power, no meaningful change is going to occur. \u2026 None of these corporations are going to bat an eye if Sleigh Bells bails on them. It\u2019ll just leave us losing more money on tour and making less streaming income than we do now. It\u2019s a s\u2013tty place to be but it\u2019s the truth. What we need is greater regulation and accountability at the highest levels of the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA Wasserman representative did not respond to a request for comment by press time.<\/p>\n


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