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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.

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[–] 62 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    '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

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

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  • [–] 110 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    It's probably best if we prosecute the people tangentially connected to people in the Epstein files. Otherwise we might have to prosecute the people in the Epstein files and we can't have that!

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I want to see the Andrew formerly known as Prince subjected to a public trial and if found guilty by a jury, imprisonment like any common person. Alas his brother doesn't quite hate him enough to kamikaze over a thousand years of monarchy into the ground just to screw him over.

    That would be funny as fuck for future GCSE history students to learn about though.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Why not both? It isn't just a tangential connection - he's making money for them.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    They're capitalists and heads of state: we're all making money for them until we get some heads rolling.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Yeah but most of us are trying to survive. I doubt Sheeran is in a position where getting fired would compromise his wellbeing.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    It seems my statement came across as an apology for Sheeran, when it was intended as a reminder that people like Kraft have set up the economy so just trying to survive benefits them. And so the only way to get rid of their power to buy everything, including complicity, is to get rid of them.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 month ago

    Ladies and gentlemen he's going for the hat trick

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    In Ed's defence, not that he really deserves any defense, I doubt Ed know about this. But still, fuck you Ed.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    A lot of famous artists quit Wasserman agency last year specifically because of this. So it is almost impossible he did not know of it.

    Coincidentally everyone signed with Wasserman agency never speaks out for Palestine except a rare both sides statement for some.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago*

    Shotgun boycotts are like the war hawk attitude, "Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out" - somehow it passes for ethical purity now.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    Then go after Casey Wasserman, why shoot him? Is Sheeran in the files? You people need to work on your torch and pitchfork skills.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    Because Sheeran catered and caved to Robert Kraft, another Epstein associate and genocidal Nazi. Ed Sheeran seems to surround himself with a lot of Epstein adjacent people and pro-genociders. Then he caters to them like he's under their control.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Your expectations of celebrities are unreal.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    It's unreal to me that Israel has killed over 20k kids and more than 80k civilians, and continues to pursue their genocide, while people remain silent or indifferent. Not saying anything, making excuses, and giving power to people that enable the genocide, makes them Nazi collaborators.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    And yet that's exactly what the majority of the population does, has done, and will do. You built your expectations out of hope and outrage, not history. That disappointment is on you when people don't act the way you expected or want.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Celebrities are regular people, there is no intrinsic difference between them and everybody else in the world, they should be under the same expectations as everyone else. Cause and effect still applies to them. As outlined by another commenter, a lot of people (celebrities, even.) quit the agency for this specific reason, Ed wasn’t one of them.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Most regular people aren't paying much attention to it at all.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    They are also at fault. If most of the people are stepping on hamsters that doesn’t make stepping on a hamster not something to hold them accountable for doing, no matter who they may be. People are accountable for their actions.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Hmmm, when it's someone in the entertainment industry who's that close to Epstein, it looks extra suspicious. I wonder if he was part of Epstein's "supply chain".

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  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    What's the logic behind persecuting Sheeran for this? Palestine yes, but this just seems dumb.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Ed Sheeran is incidental at this point. The boycott is the equivalent of breaking equipment at a factory. He is a profit engine for his agency, and if people don't go to his concert, his agency and the venues lose money. Sucks for him, but nobody held a gun to his head and forced him to hitch his wagon to this train.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Then why not name all artists the agency is handling? This seems like it's going to hurt nobody but Sheeran.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Because he made himself a target and life is not fair.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago

    Debbie Wassermassen Schultz's cousin?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    any relation to Debbie Wasserman Shultz? You know, the head of the DNC that conspired with Hillary Clinton in the 2016 elections to force Sanders out.

    edit: sorry internet stranger. sorry that DWS and Hillary were such scumbags that they attempted to circumvent democratic process and in turn destroyed American democracy all to satiate their greed and hubris.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Unrelated in at least the closest 2-3 generations as far as I can tell. Casey's grandfather only had one child (Casey's mother who gave him the Wasserman name) whereas Debbie got her name from her father. Whether Casey's grandfather Lew had any siblings or cousins is harder to find out

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    [–] 74 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Bigger picture, I would love to know who the people behind all of these concert tours are, and the stadiums etc. All the people making the big money aside from the artists.

    There could be better organised boycotts.

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  • [–] 67 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Casey Wasserman and Robert Kraft to start. They aren't being ignored while people rightfully criticize Sheeran.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I personally love that overnight Kraft's name became common knowledge. Perfect Streisand effect. It's also why Ed did have sway in those negotiations, and why he is extra shitty for not using it at all.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)
  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    That was a good video. Joins a few more of the dots.

    That presenter is very good and I was surprised at the end that he knew Ed Sheeran personally but didn’t hold back. Well, maybe just a little.

    Ten minutes long, for anyone wondering.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Taylor Swift's PR team urged her not to criticize Trump, and she was capable of doing some criticism there.

    After stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism your entire presidency, you have the nerve to feign moral superiority before threatening violence? -Swift's X account.

    Trump's calculated dismantling of USPS proves one thing clearly: He is WELL AWARE that we do not want him as our president. He's chosen to blatantly cheat and put millions of Americans' lives at risk in an effort to hold on to power -Swift's X account.

    Donald Trump's ineffective leadership gravely worsened the crisis that we are in and he is now taking advantage of it to subvert and destroy our right to vote and vote safely. Request a ballot early. Vote early. -Swift's X account.

    Source: https://www.newsweek.com/taylor-swift-donald-trump-kamala-harris-joe-biden-2024-election-1938982

    Meanwhile Ed Sheeran is out here protecting billionaire pedophile and supporting the genocide in Palestine? Israel has killed over 73,000 Palestinians and lost only 3,000 of their own. The facts are overt at this point. Ed Sheeran is a coward.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Wasserman's emails to Maxwell are nightmarishly cringe.

    TL;DR: Wasserman was having an affair with Ghislaine Maxwell.

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  • [–] 106 points 1 month ago

    JUST because Ed Sheeran is choosing EPSTEIN'S FRIENDS over his Own Friends DOESNT mean you can be MEAN to HIM!

    -Every Right Wing Blogger soon!

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    Can we start calling him Ep Sheeran or idk

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Things continue to get worse for Ed Sheeran.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    His friends are tied to Epstein. His business associates are tied to Epstein. Israel is tied to Epstein.

    His name isn't in the files so far, but you know what they say; "If a dozen people are at a table, and 11 are nazis, there are 12 nazis at that table."

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Epstein is implicated with Ed Sheeran? Sheesh, you think you know a guy

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Not directly... First paragraph of the article

    Ed Sheeran is facing a fresh wave of online boycott calls after Casey Wasserman, the entertainment executive behind the agency representing the singer's North American live work, was linked to Jeffrey Epstein-related records, with one database listing 109 flight records involving Wasserman.

    Seems like he should fire him

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    The hits just keep on hitting.

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