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LA28 Keeps Casey Wasserman as Chair After Outside Review

Client defections persist despite the board’s decision, with local officials urging his resignation.

Overview

  • LA28’s executive committee met Wednesday with assistance from O’Melveny & Myers and decided Wasserman will remain chair.
  • The review found no interactions beyond a 2002 Clinton Foundation flight on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane and 2003 emails with Ghislaine Maxwell, with Wasserman fully cooperating.
  • Wasserman apologized for the decades-old correspondence, said he never had a personal or business relationship with Epstein, and expressed regret for any association.
  • Singer Chappell Roan and former U.S. soccer star Abby Wambach left his agency this week, as additional artists criticized his leadership.
  • Several Los Angeles officials called for his resignation, while the IOC voiced full trust in Wasserman and no criminal allegations have been reported against him.