Chappell Roan said she has dropped Wasserman, a talent agency, after its CEO, Casey Wasserman, was named in the Jeffrey Epstein files, making her the highest-profile artist to sever ties and to demand accountability and consequences.

“I refuse to passively stand by,” the “Pink Pony Club” singer said in an online statement Monday that called for “accountability and leadership that earns trust.”

She added, “I hold my teams to the highest standards and have a duty to protect them as well. No artist, agent or employee should ever be expected to defend or overlook actions that conflict so deeply with our own moral values.”

The pop star continued, “Artists deserve representation that aligns with their values and supports their safety and dignity. This decision reflects my belief that meaningful change in our industry requires accountability and leadership that earns trust.”

Wasserman, who is also the chairman of the Los Angeles Organizing Committee for the 2028 Olympic Games, has denied any wrongdoing.

In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, he defended that his email correspondence with Epstein’s sex trafficking fixer Ghislaine Maxwell took place long before her arrest. He also defended a 2002 ride on Epstein’s plane as an innocent “humanitarian trip as part of a delegation with the Clinton Foundation.”

Documents show the pair exchanged flirtatious emails in 2003, when Wasserman was married with a young family. Maxwell was later convicted in 2021 on charges including conspiracy to entice minors into illegal sex acts, conspiracy to transport them for that purpose, sex trafficking a minor, sex trafficking conspiracy and transporting a minor to engage in sex acts.

Roan’s hard line follows similar outcry and dissolution from a handful of other artists, including Dropkick Murphys, and musicians Water from Your Eyes, Wednesday, Beach Bunny and Best Coast.

“It saddens us to part ways with [our agents], but the namesake of the agency is in the Epstein files so…we GONE,” Dropkick Murphys wrote in a since-removed online post confirmed by Billboard.

The duo Water from Your Eyes also pointedly blasted Wasserman for aligning himself with “the world’s most vile and repugnant social circle and human trafficking network” while announcing their removal from his agency.

“His ‘deepest regrets’ and PR apologies mean nothing in the wake of violence against women and children caused by Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and their accomplices,” they said. “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.”

Beach Bunny similarly described themselves as “hugely disappointed and disgusted.”

“[Wasserman’s] actions are abhorrent and disturbing on every level,” said the group, which was formed by guitarist and vocalist Lili Trifilio. “As a woman in music I unfortunately am not surprised anymore when rich men in power do horrible things. I am frustrated, I am enraged. Fuck you Casey Wasserman.”

Like Beach Bunny, the band Wednesday called for Wasserman’s company to kick him to the curb and change its name.

“For 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,” they wrote.

Other acts represented by Wasserman, according to The New York Times, include Kendrick Lamar, Coldplay, Joni Mitchell, Lorde and Tyler, the Creator.

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