Mayor calls on Los Angeles Olympics chief to resign amid Epstein controversy

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass called connected LA 2028 Olympics main Casey Wasserman to resign amid the fallout from his sanction appearing successful the Jeffrey Epstein files past month.

Bass is the latest authoritative to telephone retired Wasserman, doing truthful successful an interrogation with CNN. She said she was incapable to occurrence him, but believed helium should "step down."

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass speaks astatine NBA Cares Legacy Project Dedication astatine the Weingart YMCA connected Feb. 12, 2026. (Kirby Lee/Imagn Images)

"The committee made a decision," she said. "I deliberation that determination was unfortunate. I don’t enactment the decision. I bash deliberation that we request to look astatine the leadership. However, my occupation arsenic politician of Los Angeles is to marque definite that our metropolis is wholly prepared to person the champion Olympics that has ever happened successful Olympic history."

The Justice Department’s merchandise of documents related to Epstein showed Wasserman having a flirtatious speech with adjacent Epstein subordinate Ghislaine Maxwell. Since then, he’s announced helium volition merchantability his endowment bureau arsenic immoderate clients person already announced their departures.

Wasserman’s determination to merchantability the bureau came aft the LA28 board’s enforcement committee met to sermon Wasserman's quality successful the Epstein files. The committee said it and an extracurricular ineligible steadfast conducted a reappraisal of Wasserman's interactions with Epstein and Maxwell with Wasserman's afloat cooperation.

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Casey Wasserman, chairperson and president of LA28, during the media league celebrating the 1,000-day countdown to LA28 astatine Devon Park successful Oklahoma City, Oct. 20, 2025. (Doug Hoke/The Oklahoman/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

"We recovered Mr. Wasserman's narration with Epstein and Maxwell did not spell beyond what has already been publically documented," the committee said successful a statement, adding that Wasserman "should proceed to pb LA28 and present a harmless and palmy Games."

Wasserman has said antecedently helium flew connected a humanitarian ngo to Africa connected Epstein's backstage level astatine the invitation of the Clinton Foundation successful 2002. He said successful a memo to unit that his interactions with Maxwell and Epstein were constricted and that helium regrets the emails.

"It was years earlier their transgression behaviour came to light, and, successful its entirety, consisted of 1 humanitarian travel to Africa and a fistful of emails that I profoundly regret sending. And I'm heartbroken that my little interaction with them 23 years agone has caused you, this company, and its clients truthful overmuch hardship implicit the past days and weeks," the memo said.

"I ne'er had a idiosyncratic oregon concern narration with Jeffrey Epstein," Wasserman said successful a anterior statement. "As is good documented, I went connected a humanitarian travel arsenic portion of a delegation with the Clinton Foundation successful 2002 connected the Epstein plane. I americium terribly atrocious for having immoderate relation with either of them."

United States women’s national soccer team legend Abby Wambach announced she was leaving the agency. Chappell Roan besides near the agency.

The Department of Justice released a trove of Epstein documents connected Dec. 19 pursuing President Trump's signature connected the Epstein Files Transparency Act successful November 2025. (Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

In the email exchanges, Wasserman told Maxwell, "I deliberation of you each the time. So, what bash I person to bash to spot you successful a choky leather outfit?" Another speech showed Maxwell asking Wasserman whether it would beryllium foggy capable during an upcoming sojourn "so that you tin interval bare down the formation and nary 1 tin spot you unless they are adjacent up?" Wasserman responded, "or thing similar that."

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Wasserman has not been accused of immoderate wrongdoing.

Fox News’ Ryan Morik contributed to this report.

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