The Organizing Committee for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics has called a meeting on Wednesday to address the status of LA28 chairman Casey Wasserman, according to people familiar with the situation.
The meeting was arranged following Wasserman’s name surfacing in the Epstein files. A prominent artist and an athlete associated with Wasserman’s businesses have announced their decision to leave his agency in recent days.
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Chappell Roan earlier this week announced her separation from his eponymous talent agency, Wasserman. On Wednesday, retired U.S. women’s soccer star Abby Wambach posted on Instagram that she had left the Wasserman agency, where Wasserman is CEO, after reading his correspondence in the files.
“Casey should resign,” Wambach wrote. “He should leave, so more people like me don’t have to.”
Sarah Hirshland, CEO of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee, and Gene Sykes, president and chair of the USOPC, are expected to dial into the LA28 meeting from Italy, where the Winter Olympics is taking place, one of the people said.
Several members of Los Angeles’s city council and county board of supervisors called for Wasserman to step down from his Olympics post, citing his correspondence with Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell in the
batch of recently released Epstein files.
Wasserman issued an apology after the emails were disclosed. He said he regretted his correspondence with Maxwell, “which took place over two decades ago, long before her horrific crimes came to light.”