{"id":240202,"date":"2026-03-09T15:16:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T19:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/03\/09\/wasserman-agency-renamed-the%c2%b7team-amid-epstein-fallout-and-sale-talks-3\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T15:16:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T19:16:41","slug":"wasserman-agency-renamed-the%c2%b7team-amid-epstein-fallout-and-sale-talks-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/03\/09\/wasserman-agency-renamed-the%c2%b7team-amid-epstein-fallout-and-sale-talks-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasserman Agency Renamed THE\u00b7TEAM\u00a0Amid\u00a0Epstein Fallout and\u00a0Sale\u00a0Talks\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tWasserman Group has officially rebranded to THE\u00b7TEAM as the agency continues to hammer out the details after parting ways with now-controversial founder Casey Wasserman.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe name change, announced Monday (March 9), is a nod to the agency\u2019s former moniker \u201cTeam Wass.\u201d This follows the release of emails between Wasserman and convicted Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, leading to a mass exodus of music clients. Though nothing in the documents implicates Wasserman in a crime, he agreed earlier this month to sell his namesake agency<\/a> to get past the \u201cdistraction.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFor 24 years, this company has been shaped by our work, our people and our unifying belief in the power of Sports, Music and Entertainment,\u201d THE\u00b7TEAM says in a statement announcing the new name. \u201cThat philosophy remains the foundation of who we are \u2014 and where we are going. We go forward as we always have: Together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNegotiations are still underway for the sale of Wasserman\u2019s stake in the agency, which includes valuable sports, music and brand divisions. Forbes<\/a><\/em> estimates that the entertainment mogul owns roughly 40% of the business, with the rest held by private investment firm Providence Equity Partners.<\/p>\n

\n\tWasserman\u2019s name became controversial<\/a> after it popped up in the millions of pages released on Jan. 30 by the Department of Justice as part of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. These files included risqu\u00e9 emails from 2003 between Wasserman, who was then married, and Maxwell, who is now serving prison time following her conviction for trafficking underage girls on Epstein\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe exchanges between Wasserman and Maxwell occurred years before her crimes came to light, and nothing in the documents suggests that Wasserman engaged in any wrongdoing. But numerous artists departed the agency in the fallout, including Chappell Roan, Orville Peck and Sylvan Esso.<\/p>\n

\n\tWasserman announced his exit in a Feb. 13 company-wide memo, writing, \u201cI\u2019m deeply sorry that my past personal mistakes have caused you so much discomfort. It\u2019s not fair to you, and it\u2019s not fair to the clients and partners we represent so vigorously and care so deeply about.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOur clients expect \u2014 and deserve \u2014 world-class representation. And that\u2019s exactly what they get because of all of you,\u201d wrote Wasserman at the time. \u201cAt this moment, I believe that I have become a distraction to those efforts. That is why I have begun the process of selling the company, an effort that is already underway.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s not yet clear whether the newly-renamed THE\u00b7TEAM will be sold as a single entity or in parts, and the buyer (or buyers) have not yet been publicly identified. The sale could reshape the concert booking market, especially if a competitor like CAA, WME or UTA were to acquire the agency\u2019s music division, which boasts clients including superstars Ed Sheeran, Coldplay, Kendrick Lamar and SZA, plus a heavy slate of dance acts like Skrillex, R\u00fcf\u00fcs Du Sol and Swedish House Mafia.<\/p>\n

\n\tAdditional reporting by Eric Renner Brown.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Wasserman Group has officially rebranded to THE\u00b7TEAM as the agency continues to hammer out the details after parting ways with now-controversial founder Casey Wasserman. The name change, announced Monday (March 9), is a nod to the agency\u2019s former moniker \u201cTeam Wass.\u201d This follows the release of emails between Wasserman and convicted Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}