Casey Wasserman will not resign as LA Olympics chairman amid scandal

Casey Wasserman said he will not step down as president of the 2028 Los Angeles organizing committee over his ongoing cheating scandal.

“I’m going to do my job and do it all the way to the end,” Wasserman said Tuesday at the CNBC x Boardroom: Game Plan Summit in Los Angeles when asked by CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin if the scandal could distract him from his work with the next Summer Games. “I’m the one who’s most invested and most capable of delivering the (best) outcome for the city.”

As for the media mogul’s response to the allegations, which surfaced in a Daily Mail report in early August that characterized Wasserman as a “serial cheater” who chronically sleeps with female employees, Wasserman asked the public to “consider the source.”

“Think about the source — if The Daily Mail can be considered a reporter, then we’re all in trouble,” he continued. “But we live in a time when people can say whatever they want, without facts, without cooperation, without sources, and that’s the world we live in. The wind is blowing through the tall trees.”

The report detailed his history of alleged affairs, including with former secretary and chief of staff Patricia Feau (now of the nonprofit LA28 Olympic as vice president of host city relations), a human resources employee named Kristen Merrill and the former flight attendant on his private jet, Jenny Chandler, who is now his girlfriend.

Two weeks after the allegations emerged, Billie Eilish, who was performing at the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics, dropped Wasserman. Wasserman had booked the live show for herself and her brother, Finneas O’Connell.

“While they are grateful to their former live booking agents at Wasserman, Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell have elected to have their film, TV and music handled by the same agency, WME, moving forward,” a spokesperson for Eilish told TheWrap at the time.