LA officials want nothing to do with, Casey Wasserman, 2028 Olympics chair after Epstein link

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https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/la-officials-2028-olympics-chair-21333624.php

Multiple Los Angeles officials have called on 2028 LA Olympics committee chair Casey Wasserman to resign after his flirtatious emails with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell became public.


Wasserman, 51, is the founder of a global sports marketing and talent agency that rapidly expanded thanks to a flurry of key competitor acquisitions. He’s also been a key figure in LA’s plans for the 2028 Olympics, both from the initial attempts to bring the sporting event to the city and as chairman of the committee once the games were officially coming to Southern California.

But Wasserman was back in the news this week for an entirely different reason. The U.S. Department of Justice released a new batch of Jeffrey Epstein files that not only included personal communications from the convicted sex offender but also included communication between Wasserman and Maxwell. The two went back and forth with racy emails, in which Epstein’s former girlfriend wrote about giving Wasserman a massage and he asked her, “So what do I have to do to see you in a tight leather outfit?”


Wasserman, who was married at the time the emails were sent, said in a statement sent to multiple news outlets, “I deeply regret my correspondence with Ghislaine Maxwell which took place over two decades ago, long before her horrific crimes came to light. I never had a personal or business relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. As is well documented, I went on a humanitarian trip as part of a delegation with the Clinton Foundation in 2002 on the Epstein plane. I am terribly sorry for having any association with either of them.”

Yet that hasn’t been enough to stop the wave of politicians demanding accountability from the Olympic chairman. Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn was the first politician to put out a statement regarding Wasserman, telling Dakota Smith of the LA Times, “I think Casey Wasserman needs to step down. Having him represent us on the world stage distracts focus from our athletes and the enormous effort needed to prepare for 2028.”