Chappell Roan Exits Casey Wasserman’s Music Empire Over LA28 Boss’ Epstein Files Revelations: “I Refuse To Passively Stand By”
Chappell Roan has left Casey Wasserman‘s music agency over the LA28 chief’s recently revealed connection with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
“No artist, agent or employee should ever be expected to defend or overlook actions that conflict so deeply with our own moral values,” the Pink Pony superstar posted online today. “I refuse to passively stand by.”
The exit of the Kiely Mosiman, Jackie Nalpant and Anna Bewers represented Roan is the biggest and perhaps harshest blow against the increasingly besieged grandson of legendary agent Lew Wasserman. Contacted by Deadline, reps for Wasserman, who has been in Italy at the Olympic Winter Games, had no comment on Roan’s bombshell.
A Wasserman client since 2023, Roan’s action follows fellow artists like Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino, plus bands Beach Bunny and Wednesday walking away from Wasserman. The decision by Roan a.k.a. Kayleigh Rose Amstutz represents the supreme A-lister move since Billie Eilish left Wasserman in 2024 when a previous sex scandal swirled around the executive.
Adding to Wasserman’s woes, a series of LA politicians, including newly minted mayoral candidate and two-term City Council member Nithya Raman, have called the 2028 Olympics chair a growing “distraction” to the Games and the City of Angels. Fearing retribution from Wasserman’s buddy Donald Trump, Mayor Karen Bass has sidestepped a POV on the LA28 chair and put it all on the LA28 board. The LA28 board, which includes the likes of Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jessica Alba, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Jamie Lee Curtis, has said nothing publicly so far, an uprising over Wasserman’s repeated presence in the DOJ-dumped Epstein Files is occurring among some of his top employees.
Power players such as Marty Diamond and Duffy McSwiggin have reached out to a number of companies and agencies around town in the past few days. The Wasserman agents have been pitching potentially interested parties in either taking on them and their clients, buying up Wasserman’s music biz or financing the agents purchasing the company from Wasserman himself.
So far, no one had taken up the crew on any of the options, I hear. However, a well-placed source tonight acknowledged “it all changes now Chappell has left Casey.”
“This is always how it ends,” the source added.
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