The chairman of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games has said he “deeply regrets” decades-old flirty emails with Ghislaine Maxwell – the jailed associate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Casey Wasserman’s messages to Maxwell, sent in 2003, were among millions of files published by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday.
In one exchange, Wasserman wrote to Maxwell: “I think of you all the time… So what do I have to do to see you in a tight leather outfit?”
Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for recruiting and trafficking teenage girls to be sexually abused by the disgraced financier Epstein prior to his death in custody in 2019.
“I deeply regret my correspondence with Ghislaine Maxwell which took place over two decades ago, long before her horrific crimes came to light,” Wasserman said in a statement obtained by news agency AFP.
He also emphasised that he had “never had a personal or business relationship with Epstein”.
“As is well documented, I went on a humanitarian trip as part of a delegation with the Clinton Foundation in 2002 on the Epstein plane,” Wasserman said.
“I am terribly sorry for having any association with either of them.”
While the files do not show any wrongdoing on the part of those featured, including Wasserman, they have raised renewed questions for those who associated with the influential financier.
The BBC has approached Wasserman for comment.
Wasserman founded a sports and entertainment agency in 2002, and is a trustee of the non-profit Clinton Foundation, according to the Olympics website.
Ghislaine Maxwell agreed last month to testifyunder oath before the congressional committee investigating the federal government’s handling of the Epstein files.
The committee also summoned both former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to testify.
The former president appeared in photographs with Epstein in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Bill Clinton has never been accused of wrongdoing by survivors of Epstein’s abuse and has denied knowledge of his sex offending.
Epstein, who was convicted of sexual offences in 2008, was found dead in his New York prison cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
By BBC News
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