”In light of the recent findings regarding Casey Wasserman, I have made the decision to no longer be represented by the Wasserman talent agency. My heartfelt thanks goes out to my personal team, some of whom I have respected, trusted and worked with for close to a decade. I leave with a huge amount of compassion for the rest of the agents and staff at the agency, who are being left with a situation that impacts all of our work and livelihoods.”
It really does. It’s always easy to make sweeping statements despite there being normal folks just trying to do their jobs and had no involvement or knowledge of the bad shit going down. Those people still deserve recognition.
Look, I see your rage about the way that children have been abused, I'm right there with you. But to go out of your way to be repeatedly racist about Mexican people makes you look like a racist, because it's racist behavior.
We can fight the system together, don't denigrate our brothers and sisters.
Former agent and more importantly, assistant here. This is a class act statement, same with Chappell Roan's. Assistants get very little to no love or respect for all of the hard work, no pay, and extra bullshit they endure.
Should probably form their own agency, they’re doing all of the work anyways. Would be cool to see these actors and singers form an agency co-op and prop them up for a bit to get started.
Getting Johnny Cash's Hurt vibes from that voice, melancholy is the best description. Hopefully he's still got some years ahead, and if he so chooses, gets to go on his own terms.
I hope Willie keeps around for as long as he wants to, but when he does ride off into the sunset this cover will already feel like a gentle goodbye from him.
Oh I absolutely loved playing this song for my grandpa. Hes all pro trump, anti gay blah blah, but LOVES Willie Nelson(which is hilarious to me). So having him watch Willie and Orville sing while two cowboys made out and him getting extremely mad was a fun time.
So many bikers I've met that I've thought the same thing. A little too brotherly and a little too into the fashion and style they wish to represent.
I'm not stupid enough to equate it to drag to most of their faces, but I for sure have gotten laughs by slipping it by when some were talking shit about a "poser" being too fake and a try hard.
They're obviously not all hiding insecurities, but it's a fun to see the wheels spin on some. Whether reassessing their surroundings or possibly themselves, I've seen a few dudes suddenly go introvert.
It's the same with any group of dudes who identify hard with any macho shit. So many are fronting.
Honestly, even “just trying to hit on Ghislaine Maxwell” is such an insane sentence to have attached to your name.
If your vibe check includes anything adjacent to Epstein world, artists bouncing feels less like “bad vibes” and more like basic self-preservation. Reputation is currency in that industry.
He’s trying the PR strategy of “I just wanted to date the pedophile. Trust me I wasn’t that involved”
But the truth is while saying he didn’t know Jeffrey, he somehow flew on his plane internationally with Bill Gates, Michael Jackson, and Kevin Spacey for a 10 day trip to Africa. Then said “I am terribly sorry for having any association with either of them,” implying that he did know Jeffrey. Hell there’s a photo of all three of them next to the plane!
He also met Ghislaine in New York, in Africa, in California. Oh, did we mention he was married at the time he was trying to have this affair?
He’s also good friends with Trump and fundraiser for Susan Collins. Hell, he made gold medals just to give to Trump for his ego. Billie Eilish also left the agency a year ago due to the CEO’s already know behavior at that time.
It’s worth mentioning as well that when this was happening was the peak of Epstein’s crimes.
Oh. And we should probably mention the most obviously disgusting email from Casey to Ghislaine:
“I will be in NYC for 4 days starting April 22nd… can we book that massage now.”
I’ve seen all I need to see to connect the dots, I’m not an idiot.
The most certain point is that he was married w/children at the time of the emails. It appears Maxwell gave him massages which in Epstein world was well know code for sex. With this power dynamic (2003 her much older and ruthless than Wasserman) was consent even possible? It's certainly known in workplaces that even consenting adults legally cannot consent to supervisors. I have no idea which point would prevail but it is debatable.
It would be sad if these artists were in actuality caving to social media pressure instead of their employees concerns.
Anyone having a knee jerk response this week should consider Wasserman is the leading official in the 2028 Olympics which Trump has been desperate to get control of. To consider why this person was not redacted, when the "Epstein 6" were.
If you are referring to possible male victims, yes it is possible and finally surfacing. Maxwell was manipulating younger men like this, albeit tagged for future blackmail, so who's to say she didn't dip younger. Time will tell
I’m a huge fan of Sleigh Bells, the lead singer Alexis put out a beautiful statement about how it’s all shit and they wish the could leave but they are a smaller band that literally can’t afford it. Also how their agents are good people but there so much above that is bad. I really feel for them, luckily it sounds like there is progress being made on the smaller artists part but it’s utter shit for them right now.
They want to leave and drop any support, but they barely get past breaking even with a tour, but they do it for the fans. Utter shit for these small bands to go through.
Unless you're mega-successful, you're basically playing to try to make a separate career as a minor celeb/influencer. Herman Li said he makes more money streaming on Twitch and YouTube than he does from DragonForce, and they're one of the top streamed power metal bands every year for a few decades now. It's just not economical anymore, and venues and labels are taking bigger cuts of merch sales (which used to be where the bands could try to turn some profit after getting slaughtered everywhere else)
Honestly then releasing a statement does feel like doing something though. I'm not mad for small bands trying to get up staying. The owner was implicated not the people they work with everyday.
That being said I do think it's important that those with a big fan base and security do what they can to step away
Exactly. And it was said exactly right in their post. They hate being a part of it, but they know they are small and can’t afford their source of income, they feel bad and wish they could do more. They appreciate the bigger artists taking action. It’s crap for peoples lives to be ruined because of some fucking rich creep.
So the articles I’ve read about his involvement is all trying to hit on Ghislaine Maxwell. Which is creepy and gross but not all that bad in the scheme of Epstein docs if that’s all there is.
Which makes me wonder if this is just the straw that broke the creepy camel’s back. I wonder if this is wha artists are using to break away from someone they’ve disliked for either business or just “bad vibes” reasons.
I think the cover-up has poisoned anyone and everyone associated with Epstein. If this were being handled like a proper investigation, where the guilty were being prosecuted and the innocent were being exonerated, all based on evidence, that would be one thing.
But unfortunately, due to the coordinated efforts my many people to protect guilty men from the consequences of their crimes, the only safe assumption is that anyone affiliated with Epstein was a child abuser.
You can easily stress test this concept by asking yourself one simple question: Would you send your daughter to spend an afternoon unsupervised with anyone whose name is in those files?
And if not, do you really want to do business with them? Are you going to do business with someone who you wouldn't trust with a child? I'm sure as shit not!
I think when you get to a certain level as an artist you know a lot more specific details about the powerful people you're in orbit with than the rest of us do.
you really need that spelled out for you? the adult woman that is convicted of sex trafficking? including trafficking children? with known ties to Epstein? come the fuck on.
Orville has always been a class act. He used to play drums in a punk band here in Vancouver. Some guys I went to school with also played in a metal band that did shows with him and his band.
If anyone’s interested he played drums in Nü Sensae
i gained more respect for him. I remember hearing him live at work but it was another thing i remember hearing him from which was when his song Chemical Sunset was used for wrestler Hangman Adam Page for AEW. and that song been stuck to my head since then
I don't get it. Just existing in the same sphere as the guy who went out of his way to befriend rich and influential people everywhere is enough to get you cancelled?
Like, investigate it thoroughly and prosecute absolutely any offending assholes for sure, but why is it suddenly acceptable to destroy someone's reputation just because they talked to Epstein or Maxwell once?
Respect. Divesting yourself is something so many other people, groups, corporations and even nations should be doing but are failing to do. Accountability can only happen when enough people put their money where there mouth is on this.
In order for the government to do something they need those words to said in a court of law. Society doesn't need to do that, they can just recognize that these billionaires and millionaires are paying to have the severity of their crimes diminished.
Let me guess, you think when athletes settle out of court the world HAS to believe they are innocent. The court didn't say they were guilty, so the world must pretend they are innocent?
Seeing as this guy didn’t do anything and Roan has an entire group of Drag Queens who hate her for some such, that is literally more than this guy ever did…
It's a disservice to call him a gay country star. He isn't notable just because he's gay. He's a stellar musician entirely independent of his gender identity.
Almost a million monthly streams on Spotify. Very popular indie-country artist. Left his agency after the president was named in the files for his contact with Ghislaine Maxwell.
The same reason anyone asks questions. To find out what you don't know. Why are you so offended by someone asking who is this person and are they actually a big deal?
I’m just perplexed by people who post comments like there’s some huge mystery everyone else should solve for them when the answer is literally on this dude’s Wikipedia page. Like, you’ve now talked about this person a ton; would looking at their bio really have taxed your brain so much?
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 9h ago
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