More consequences of Epstein dossier: organizer of Games in LA sells company, CEO of international port authority from Dubai resigns

Casey Wasserman may still organize the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles after his name surfaced in the Epstein documents made public by the US Department of Justice. He does put his influential marketing company up for sale, reported The Wall Street Journal on Saturday.

The company, which Wasserman founded more than twenty years ago and which bears his surname, mainly represents famous athletes and music artists. Last week, popular pop artist Chappell Roan and football star Abby Wambach, among others, left the company after it emerged that Wasserman appears in the Epstein documents.

Wasserman has become discredited because of the contact he maintained with Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Flirty emails between Wasserman and Maxwell have been found among the millions of newly released documents from Epstein’s extensive criminal file.

Regret

The emails date from 2003, long before Maxwell’s conviction. In 2022, Ghislaine Maxwell received a twenty-year prison sentence for luring, transporting and trafficking underage girls for sexual abuse by and with Epstein. Wasserman says he regrets his correspondence with Maxwell, “which took place more than 20 years ago, long before her heinous crimes came to light.”

Wasserman himself has announced that he traveled to Africa on an Epstein plane in 2002 for a humanitarian mission of Bill Clinton’s charity organization. He further states that he has had no personal or business ties with Epstein.

After a meeting on Wednesday, the organizing committee for the LA Games decided that Wasserman can remain as chairman. An investigation conducted by an outside law firm found that Wasserman’s relationship with Epstein and Maxwell “did not go beyond what has already been publicly documented,” the executive committee said in a statement.

Close ties

Long-term contacts with Epstein have cost the CEO of the large international logistics and port company from Dubai DP World his job. The released Epstein documents show that this Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem had close ties with Epstein and corresponded with him amicably by email. That happened before, but also at least ten years after the American was convicted in 2008 for sex with an underage girl.

In addition to talking about President Trump and theology, they also spoke in crude terms about women, shared pornography, sexual experiences and information about massage and escort agencies. Earlier this week, it also emerged that Bin Sulayem was the one who received an email from Epstein with the text: “I enjoyed the torture video.” Photos show that Bin Sulayem also visited Epstein’s island. Epstein called him “one of his most loyal friends.”

DP World is a large company that runs not only the Jebel Ali port in Dubai, but also dozens of ports in other countries. It is considered a pillar of Dubai’s economy and accounts for 36 percent of the emirate’s gross domestic product and is government-owned.

Bin Sulayem’s resignation comes a day after investors in Canada and the United Kingdom announced they were suspending projects with DP World in light of what emerged about Bin Sulayem’s ties to Epstein.

As soon as Bin Sulayem’s resignation was announced on Friday, it turned out that the Dubai government had already appointed two successors at DP World for both positions that Sulayem held: CEO and chairman of the supervisory board.

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