“While grateful to their former live booking agents at Wasserman, Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell have opted to have film, TV, and music handled by the same agency, WME, moving forward,” a representative for the two artists told Billboard.
The move comes following an August 1 report in the Daily Mail that described Casey Wasserman as a “serial cheater”. The Mail said it had 11 unnamed sources for the report, “including some of [Wasserman’s] mistresses.”
The article described Wasserman as “the man behind such music greats as Coldplay and Ed Sheeran – and brought Billie Eilish into his roster by acquiring music agency Paradigm in 2021.”
According to a report at Variety, citing three “top-level sources,” Eilish and her team were “horrified” at being included in the article.
Two of these sources said Eilish had “minimal personal knowledge” of Wasserman, as she was represented by Tom Windish, an agent who had begun working with the Ocean Eyes singer at Paradigm prior to Wasserman’s acquisition of its North American and UK es in 2021 and 2022, respectively.
Sources further told Variety that Eilish wanted to depart Wasserman immediately after the Daily Mail story broke, but the matter was complicated by her involvement in the Paris Olympics closing ceremony.
