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Dance music titan John Summit has joined the growing list of artists threatening to leave the Wasserman agency over founder and CEO Casey Wasserman‘s ties to convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.
“If casey wasserman doesn’t step down, i will not remain with the agency,” Summit wrote via X and Instagram on Thursday (Feb. 12). “His actions do not reflect the integrity of the agents i work with, and if change does not happen, we will take our talents elsewhere.”
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In response to a comment on his original X post thanking him for coming forward, Summit said he had “zero plans on leaving [his] agents,” adding, “they aren’t involved in this so it’s been an ongoing process how to deal with this.”
Summit is one of the biggest artists yet to speak out on the ongoing controversy, which began after the latest tranche of Epstein files revealed scores of emails between Casey Wasserman and Maxwell, who was is now serving a 20-year prison sentence on sex trafficking convictions. Earlier this week, artists including Chappell Roan, Dropkick Murphys and Orville Peck said they had left the agency over the revelations. Several others, like Summit, have threatened to leave if Wasserman remains in charge.
In a statement sent to The Hollywood Reporter after the emails were uncovered, Wasserman — who is also chair of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee, which recently said Wasserman would continue in his post despite multiple calls for him to step down — wrote, “I deeply regret my correspondence with Ghislaine Maxwell which took place over two decades ago, long before her horrific crimes came to light. I 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.”
