2028 Summer Olympics Retains Casey Wasserman Amidst Epstein Email Controversy
Analysis based on 15 articles · First reported Feb 11, 2026 · Last updated Feb 11, 2026
The market impact is mixed; while 2028 Summer Olympics decided to retain Casey Wasserman, his company Wasserman is experiencing client losses, indicating a negative impact on his personal brand and business. The controversy could also cast a shadow on the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics preparations.
Casey Wasserman, chairman of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee (2028 Summer Olympics), faced scrutiny after government files on Jeffrey Epstein revealed flirtatious emails between Casey Wasserman and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2003. Despite calls for his resignation from various officials and public figures like Abby Wambach, the 2028 Summer Olympics board's executive committee, after an independent review by O Melveny & Myers LLP, decided that Casey Wasserman should remain in his role. The review concluded that Casey Wasserman's interactions with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell did not go beyond what was publicly documented, including a single humanitarian flight on Jeffrey Epstein's plane in 2002 at the invitation of the Clinton Foundation. However, Casey Wasserman's sports marketing and talent-management company, Wasserman, is losing clients due to the controversy.
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