2028 Los Angeles Olympics

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said Casey Wasserman should step down as chair of the LA28 Olympic organizing committee after his name surfaced in newly released DOJ Epstein files that include flirtatious email exchanges, while acknowledging she has no authority to remove him and that only the nonprofit board can do so. Wasserman has begun the process of selling his agency and shifting day‑to‑day control to Mike Watts amid client defections including Chappell Roan and Abby Wambach, even as the LA28 executive committee—after a legal review—has so far continued to back him and convened a meeting to address his status.