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Casey Wasserman, the<\/span> entertainment super-agent, has attracted his fair share of controversy as the head of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee.<\/p>\n

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In addition to passionate debates about the Olympics themselves \u2014 the geopolitics of the Games and their effect on local hosts \u2014 Wasserman has come in for criticism over his ties to the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, his support for Israel, and the potential that the Games might bring him profits through his role as a talent manager for entertainment stars.<\/p>\n

The controversies, especially revelations about his relationship with a member of Epstein\u2019s inner circle, nearly led to Wasserman\u2019s ouster from his role atop LA28, the Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee.<\/p>\n

Now, another personal wrinkle is coming to light: Wasserman\u2019s daughter, Stella, is training to compete for the Israeli equestrian team at the 2028 Games.<\/p>\n

Stella Wasserman, 21, is training to compete with the Israeli team in the show jumping competition, according to a recent profile in World of Show Jumping, a trade publication covering the sport. Instagram accounts for Stella Wasserman and her mother, Laura Ziffren Wasserman, posted in the wake of the article to celebrate Stella\u2019s plans to compete with the Israeli team.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a very real possibility that the man responsible for orchestrating an American Olympic games will have a child competing for another country that has become an international pariah due to its genocide in Gaza and wars with Lebanon and Iran \u2014 a team that is likely to face protests in LA. (Casey Wasserman, Stella Wasserman, LA28, and the Israeli Olympic committee did not respond to requests for comment.)<\/p>\n

Casey Wasserman is himself an outspoken supporter of Israel. In December, he took a trip to Israel during which he met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and pledged that the safety of athletes, and particularly Israeli athletes, was his \u201cnumber one concern,\u201d according to Algemeiner, a right-wing, New York-based newspaper covering Jewish issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re claiming that this thing that you\u2019re promoting so heavily is going to bring all these benefits to Los Angeles, but you\u2019re also promoting the interests of a foreign genocidal state \u2014 and on top of that your daughter is representing that state in the Games \u2014 that\u2019s a conflict,\u201d said Miguel Camnitzer, an organizer with Jewish Voice for Peace Los Angeles. \u201cSomebody else, without those very personal connections to Israel, might be able to make a different call, but he\u2019s unable to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wasserman, a longtime local powerbroker and grandson of Hollywood Golden Age tycoon Lew Wasserman, has been central to bringing the Games to Los Angeles, a role that has come under increased scrutiny due to his ties to Epstein and the late pedophile\u2019s former companion, convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.<\/p>\n

While his connections to the Epstein world were known to some degree for years \u00a0\u2014 he rode with Bill Clinton on Epstein\u2019s private jet for a humanitarian mission to Africa \u2014 the release of the so-called Epstein files earlier this year revealed graphic sexual emails between Wasserman and Maxwell. The revelations sparked a backlash from some of the artists represented by his eponymous talent agency, which in March changed its name to The Team; Wasserman also announced he would be selling the company.<\/p>\n

This week, Wasserman reaffirmed that he has no plans to step down as the chair of LA28.<\/p>\n

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Despite her young age, Stella Wasserman is an accomplished show jumper and owns at least four competition horses, according to a report in the Chronicle of the Horse.<\/p>\n

It is common for athletes from one country to compete for a country in which they hold dual citizenship; the International Olympic Committee requires that competitors be nationals of the countries on whose behalf they are competing.<\/p>\n

Amid the genocide in Gaza, the Israel connection underscores arguments from critics of the Olympics who say that the Games whitewash human rights abuses by nations taking part \u2014 and that international approaches to the Games foster a global double standard that penalizes some nations while allowing others to compete. In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian teams were barred from competing in the 2026 Winter Olympics; Israel has faced no such sanction.<\/p>\n

The yearslong campaign by Wasserman and others \u2014 including former Mayor Eric Garcetti \u2014 to host the Olympics in Los Angeles has met with stiff opposition from local activists. Forming a coalition, dubbed NOlympics, the activists sought to call attention to the ways in which they say the Games would exacerbate issues of affordability, surveillance, and anti-immigrant policing by federal law enforcement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we started organizing against the Olympics 10 years ago, LA was already reeling from homelessness, housing shortages, brutal policing, and ICE. And 10 years later these issues are all worse,\u201d said Jonny Coleman, an organizer with NOlympics LA. \u201cMega-events like the Olympics or the World Cup don\u2019t necessarily create problems from whole cloth, but they accelerate them.\u201d<\/p>\n

In December, LA28 announced it had raised more than $2 billion in sponsorship revenue, according to Reuters. If the costs of the Games exceed what the Olympic committee is able to fundraise, however, Los Angeles would be on the hook for the first $270 million of over-cost expenses, with the next $270 million to be covered by the state of California.<\/p>\n

The Games, activists said, could be a boon for Wasserman. Wasserman chaired a host committee to bring the Super Bowl to LA in 2022; his client Kendrick Lamar was featured in the halftime show \u2014 a coveted slot not least for the millions the exposure can bring.<\/p>\n

For Coleman, Casey Wasserman\u2019s relationship to Ghislaine Maxwell and Stella Wasserman\u2019s potential competition on behalf of Israel only further highlights the corrupt nature of the Olympics.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know these mega-events are a way to legitimize awful regimes,\u201d said Coleman. \u201cIt\u2019s disgusting, but I don\u2019t really care about the supposed integrity of the sports, personally. So yeah, let her play \u2014 why not?\u201d<\/p>\n

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