LA officials want nothing to do with 2028 Olympics chair after Epstein link |
Casey Wasserman, the chairman of the Los Angeles Organizing Committee for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, speaks during an International Olympic Committee meeting ahead of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy, on Feb. 3, 2026.
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.
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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........