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Karen Bass says Casey Wasserman should step down as LA28 chair
Mayor Bass calls for Wasserman's resignation over 2003 emails with convicted sex trafficker Maxwell while LA28 board supports him amid client losses and agency sale.
- Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, said Casey Wasserman should step down as chair of the LA28 organizing committee for the 2028 Olympics, although she cannot fire him.
- Despite calls for Wasserman's resignation over his past correspondence with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, the LA28 board backed him as chair, citing an independent review finding his relationship with Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein did not go beyond a 2002 humanitarian trip on Epstein's plane.
- The emails from 2003 revealed flirtatious exchanges between Wasserman and Maxwell, including Wasserman saying he wanted to see Maxwell in a 'tight leather outfit' and Maxwell offering him a massage that could 'drive a man wild.
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LA Mayor Bass joins calls for 2028 Olympics head Wasserman to leave over Epstein ties
Pressure is building on Casey Wasserman as head of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing team after the city’s mayor urged him to leave over his historic ties to Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend.
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Casey Wasserman received support from the executive committee of the Games despite his dirty email exchanges with Ghislaine Maxwell, the former partner of the sexual criminal.
·Paris, France
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Casey Wasserman's future at the head of the 2028 Olympic Games Organizing Committee is becoming increasingly uncertain.
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