Wasserman Media Group Rebrands to The Team Amid Epstein Fallout

The Wasserman Media Group, a prominent sports and entertainment agency founded by Casey Wasserman, announced its rebranding to The Team on Monday, March 11, as the company navigates ongoing fallout from its founder's past associations revealed in U.S. Justice Department files related to Jeffrey Epstein.

The rebrand comes nearly two months after the late January release of Epstein files, which included emails from 2003 between Wasserman and Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's associate convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking minors and now serving a 20-year prison sentence. The correspondence, exchanged more than a decade before Maxwell's crimes became public, featured flirtatious exchanges. In one message, Wasserman wrote to Maxwell, "I think of you all the time. So, what do I have to do to see you in a tight leather outfit?" Maxwell replied by offering a massage that "could drive a man wild" and alluded to a potential beach visit where one could "float naked." Wasserman, who was married at the time, has denied any personal or business relationship with Epstein and stated he deeply regrets the emails with Maxwell.

The files also documented Wasserman's participation in a 2002 flight on...