Just one day after William Morris Endeavor acquired IMG Worldwide for a reported $2.3 billion, WME CEOs Ari Emanuel and Patrick Whitesell were spotted making the rounds Wednesday at IMG Models — as well as at IMG-owned division Art + Commerce, which reps fashion fotogs Steven Meisel and Patrick Demarchelier, among others.
We hear they were welcoming staffers into the WME fold. The merger brings together IMG’s roster of sports gods and models with WME’s Hollywood clients.