LA Olympics Chief Casey Wasserman Regrets 2003 Emails With Ghislaine Maxwell
Wasserman said he 'deeply regrets' April 2003 emails with Ghislaine Maxwell released by the DOJ that include a 'tight leather outfit' message.
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Overview
Casey Wasserman, chairman of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics organizing committee, said in a statement that he "deeply regrets" email exchanges with Ghislaine Maxwell that were published in the U.S. Department of Justice's release of more than 3 million documents.
The DOJ release includes an April 1, 2003 message from Wasserman reading "Where are you, I miss you" and an April 2, 2003 reply from Maxwell offering a "massage that can drive a man wild," according to the department's disclosure.
Wasserman said in a statement obtained by AFP that the correspondence "took place over two decades ago," that he "never had a personal or business relationship with Jeffrey Epstein," and that he traveled on a 2002 humanitarian delegation on Epstein's plane.
Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted on five counts of sex trafficking and abuse of minors in 2021 and is serving a 20-year prison sentence, and Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide in a New York jail cell on Aug. 10, 2019, details noted alongside the released files.
The LA 2028 organizing committee did not immediately respond to requests for comment, and observers said the disclosures could prompt governance and reputational questions as Wasserman maintains public roles at the 2026 Winter Olympics and the 2028 Summer Games.
Analysis
Center-leaning sources frame this as scrutiny of association by foregrounding explicit 2003 emails and linking them to Wasserman’s Olympic role. Editorial choices — leading with salacious quotes, prioritizing those exchanges over broader context, and juxtaposing his apology with Maxwell/Epstein background — create a scandal-focused narrative. The sexual lines are source content; selecting and foregrounding them is editorial framing.