Ed Sheeran is facing renewed online boycott calls after agency executive Casey Wasserman was linked to Epstein-related records, amid ongoing controversy surrounding the Loop Tour.

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Wasserman’s connection to the Epstein records has been documented separately from Sheeran. The entertainment executive, who founded Wasserman Media Group, appears in released records concerning Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

According to a database compiling publicly released records, Wasserman is listed in 109 flight records and 19 documents connected to Epstein-related material. The records include a 2002 trip on Epstein’s private jet to Africa as part of a humanitarian delegation associated with the Clinton Foundation.

Documents also include correspondence between Wasserman and Maxwell from 2003. Wasserman has previously denied having a personal or business relationship with Epstein, while reporting has detailed the circumstances surrounding his contact with Epstein’s circle.

  • ☂️-@lemmy.mlEnglish
    631·
    29 days ago

    funny how fencesitters are usually sitting on one side of the fence.

    • bampop@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      29 days ago

      ‘In these situations you really find out who your friends are,’ he told the crowd in footage captured by a fan.

      At the end of the show, a tearful Sheeran said playing the concert had given him hope. He said: “Everyone is telling me to cancel, and I’m feeling all of my friends and family and people I know abandon me and I look at the end of the week and I see 50,000 people who haven’t abandoned.”

      … maybe our real friends were the pedophiles and genocide supporters we met along the way

      • TaeKwonDoh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        29 days ago

        Bold choice of words on Ed’s part, considering that he first abandoned his friends and family when he decided that the favor and fortune of an evil billionaire was more important than solidarity with those who are suffering in Palestine.

    • nullspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      29 days ago

      The “tell it like it is” crowd or the “both sides bad” crowd exclusively critiquing the left.

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      28 days ago

      Well duh, have you tried straddling a fence? It’s quite uncomfortable

      Though then again it’s uncomfortable because of the balls, which the fencesitters seem to lack.