LA Olympics chief says he ‘deeply regrets’ emails with Ghislaine Maxwell | Jeffrey Epstein

Casey Wasserman, the head of the Los Angeles Olympic organizing committee, said Saturday that he “deeply regrets” the 2003 emails between him and Ghislaine Maxwell that were included in the latest collection of government files released Friday on Jeffrey Epstein.

Among the exchanges was one of Wasserman telling Maxwell “I think about you all the time. So what do I have to do to see you in a tight leather outfit?”

In an April 2003 email to Wasserman – who was married at the time – Maxwell offered to give him a massage that could “drive a man crazy.”

There’s also an email exchange about massages and one in which Maxwell asks if there will be enough fog on a future visit “so you can float naked on the beach and no one can see you unless you’re up close?”

Wasserman responds, “Or something like that.”

In a statement released Saturday, Wasserman said, “I deeply regret my correspondence with Ghislaine Maxwell,” which he said occurred “long before her horrific crimes came to light.”

“I never had a personal or professional relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. As is well documented, I took a humanitarian trip as part of a Clinton Foundation delegation in 2002 aboard the Epstein plane. I am terribly sorry that I had any association with either of them,” he said.

In 2021, Maxwell was convicted of five counts of sex trafficking and child abuse. She is serving a 20-year prison sentence.

The documents were released in accordance with a law passed requiring the government to open its files on the late financier and his confidant and former girlfriend, Maxwell. Epstein killed himself in a New York jail cell in August 2019, a month after he was indicted on federal sex trafficking charges.

Wasserman created a sports and talent agency that represents top football, basketball and baseball players, as well as A-list actors such as Adam Sandler and Brad Pitt.

He recently made headlines as the face of the Los Angeles Olympics effort; its lobbying played an important role in the return of the Summer Olympics to the United States in 2028. Los Angeles had previously hosted it in 1984 and these will be the first summer games in the United States since Atlanta in 1996.

In 2021, Wasserman divorced from his wife of 20 years, Laura Ziffren Wasserman.

Associated Press contributed to this report