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Three million pages of evidence, thousands of unsealed flight logs, millions of data points, names, themes, and timelines connected. You are listening to the Epstein files.
The world's first AI native investigation into the case that traditional journalism simply could not handle. Welcome to the Epstein files. Last time, we tracked Thomas Berg Trump's inaugural committee chair
who texted Epstein over 100 times and is now the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey. In this investigation, we are looking at Casey Wasserman, the billionaire running the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, and emails he sent to gistling Maxwell
that are now part of the release files. As part of our ongoing investigation,
as always, every documented source we reference,
is available at EpsteinFiles.fm. So let us start with the emails. The released Epstein files communications between Wasserman and Maxwell were Wasserman told her he wanted to see her in leather.
- Right, and to really grasp the gravity of this specific file,
“you have to understand exactly who Casey Wasserman is.”
We are looking at a direct collision between documentary evidence of a criminal network and the absolute highest echelons of power. - He isn't just a wealthy executive. - No, not at all, he is institutional royalty.
He is the grandson of the legendary Hollywood mogul Lu Wasserman. - The man who essentially built the modern entertainment industry through MCA. - Exactly. Casey inherited that kingdom.
He built Wasserman media group and he completely dominated sports and music representation. But his crowning achievement, the position that makes him a massive global diplomatic figure, is his role as the chairman of the LA 28 organizing committee.
- He is the man chosen by Los Angeles to oversee the 2028 Olympics. - We are talking about an operation
with a budget exceeding $7 billion.
- $7 billion. And the evidence we were examining comes straight from the documenting cash released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act or EFTA.
These are the electronic communications
“recovered directly from Gitlin Maxwell's personal accounts.”
- Straight from the hard drives. - Yeah. - We are gonna walk you through the timeline of these emails step by step. The specific exchanges we are scrutinizing
take place in March and April of 2003. And we are not gonna just summarize these messages for you. We are looking at the exact timestamps, the specific phrasing and the escalating tone. - Because the timeline is where the official story falls apart.
The timeline begins on March 17th, 2003. We have two emails sent in the very early hours of the morning. At 0.02, and then again at 0.051, Gisling Maxwell writes to Wasterman. - I am looking directly at the EFTA archive right now.
Specifically, the document ending in 2270 for anyone falling along at home. And she writes, quote, "What should you do?" Miss me.
Then there was always that tellemold meeting,
I think I mentioned once before. What do you think? - The timestamps reveal a lot there. It is past midnight. She is sending a follow-up at three in the morning.
- Three in the morning. - And then at 0.058, that same morning, Maxwell pushes for a physical meeting. The archive document states, quote, "I'll be back in NY Tom.
I should land early afternoon." Are you sure that a breakfast meeting is out of the question in early breakfast meeting? - The official story doesn't match the data. Look at the language she uses.
It is suggestive that it is also highly insistent. She is actively managing her schedule around his, pressing for an early breakfast meeting, casually asking what he should do, and outright suggesting he should miss her.
- You do not speak to a peripheral business contact like this. - You absolutely do not. This is the language of established, deeply ingrained social comfort. She expects her response.
She feels entirely comfortable demanding his time before the sun even comes up. - Well, the tone shifts even further into explicitly sartacious banter three weeks later. We track the timeline to April 7th and April 8th 2003.
The communications escalate significantly. Maxwell asks, "What combo works for him?" And look at his response. - Right, Wasserman replies and I quote the document directly. "You me and not else much."
- Just pause on that. - And then Maxwell responds that he will not have to share her with either a cheddar cheese, a baked bean, or a kidcat.
- To which Wasserman's documented replies are anything else?
- Yeah. - You are reading a private, coded banter
between one of the most powerful men in Hollywood
and a woman who served as the primary architect of an international sex trafficking ring. Look at the progression. They are trading inside jokes about baked beans and kidcats. They are eliminating the presence of anyone else.
You, me and not else much. - It's very exclusive. - That is a statement of deliberate isolation. By April 12th and April 13th 2003, they are coordinating logistics.
Maxwell confirms she is staying at the peninsula hotel in New York. - And Wasserman responds that he can meet quoting the document. - Whoa.
- Probably late afternoon like forish. - Yeah. - XO, XO, hugs and kisses. Which brings us to this specific quote uncovered in the release that generated the initial media reports
from CNN, the BBC, and the Los Angeles Times. The document specifically states in Wasserman's own words to Maxwell.
“I think of you all the time, so what do I have to do”
to see you in a tight leather outfit? - Stop right there in process, that sentence. I think of you all the time. This is a definitive statement of emotional or at least persistent psychological real estate.
And then the request for a tight leather outfit. We have to cross examine the official alibi here. - Right, because when these documents were first extracted and published, the official Wasserman camp issued a highly coordinated public defense.
- Let's hear what they claimed. - I have that defense right here. Wasserman's representative stated that he deeply regrets the emails. He claimed they were sent long before her crimes came to light,
and he insisted, unequivocally,
that he never had a personal or business relationship
with Jeffrey Epstein. That contradicts the evidence on its face. I mean, analyze the massive gap between the public posture and the private communications. Why does a man who claims absolutely no relationship
with Epstein's sen emails ending in Zoxo to Epstein's primary accomplice? - Who is top lieutenant? - Exactly, why is he requesting to see her in a tight leather outfit at a luxury hotel,
coordinating late afternoon meetups and engaging in familiar, suggestive banter?
“- You have to look at the comfort level in these texts.”
- It's entirely casual. A person does not write, I think of you all the time, to a passing acquaintance they met at a charity gala. They do not coordinate a forish rendezvous with kisses and hugs attached to the signature.
The official defense minimizes the nature of the course wanted to protect the institution Wasserman leads. So if the emails from 2003 established that intense level of comfort,
we have to ask how Casey Wasserman ended up
in gistling Maxwell's inbox in the first place.
This requires expanding the perimeter of our investigation. - Because you don't just wake up and ask someone to wear a leather. - Right, you build to that. So we're gonna shift the timeline back to September 2002
to track the physical intersections between Wasserman and the Epstein Maxwell network. - To understand the origin of those spring 2003 emails, you have to look at the physical proximity established the previous fall.
The EFTAA documents give us the exact logistical data of how they shared space. We are not guessing about their whereabouts. We have the manifests. We have the Africa trip manifest.
“I am pulling the specific document released”
under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the file ending in 8669. This is the flight itinerary for a 2002 humanitarian trip organized by the Clinton Foundation, flown entirely on Jeffrey Epstein's customized private plane.
- The infamous Boeing 727. - The email is from a Clinton scheduling director, sent directly to Gisling Maxwell outlining the passenger list for a massive multinational tour. - We need to walk through the exact geography
this manifest because the geography dictates the duration of the exposure. People here, they shared a flight and they picture a two-hour hop from Los Angeles to Seattle. That is not what this is.
This was an extensive multi-week journey across the African continent. - The flight legs dictate the reality of the trip. The manifest tracks the plane from New York City to Akra Ghana.
- That's a massive transatlantic leg right there. - From Akra to Kumasi, from Kumasi to Abujin Nigeria, from Abujin to Kigali Rwanda, from Kigali to Maputo, Mozambique. - Just tracing that on a map, you are crossing the entire continent.
- From Maputo to Cape Town South Africa, and finally, from Cape Town to Johannesburg. - That is thousands and thousands of miles over multiple days inside a customized Boeing 727. You do not undertake a journey like that
without extensive unavoidable interaction with the other passengers. A Boeing 727 configured for private use is essentially a flying living room. - With their dining areas, lounge spaces.
- Shared facilities. You are eating together. You are experiencing the exhaustion of international travel together. You are navigating foreign logistics together.
- And the passenger list is explicitly detailed in the EFTA release. I am reading the names allowed for you. President Clinton, Doug Band, David Slade, Jim Kennedy, Eric Nonex, Rodney Slater, Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker,
and listed right there in seats 11 and 12
To the entire duration of the trip.
Casey Wasserman and his wife, Laura Wasserman.
- Time to apply to cover up check.
“The official defense from Wasserman's representatives”
notes that it was a single humanitarian trip in 2002. They frame it as an isolated event for a charitable cause, suggesting he was just a guy who hitched a ride to do some good in the world. - The official claim is that sharing a plane
for a philanthropic mission does not equal a relationship with the plane's owners. - Look at what they are leaving out. You do not spend weeks hopping across the African continent on a private jet
alongside Disneyland Maxwell, experiencing all those different cultures and high-level diplomatic meetings, and then follow it up months later with E-mail saying "Zoxo" and asking her to wear tight leather
if the relationship is merely a passing formal acquaintance. - The timeline completely destroys the alibi. - Completely. The Africa trip was in September 2002. The flirtatious E-mail's coordinating hotel meetups
occurred in March in April of 2003. The physical proximity on the jet evolved directly into familiar, suggestive correspondence. What is the Wasserman Camp minimizing? They are actively minimizing the continuity
of the connection. - We're trying to build a fire break between the flight and the e-mails. - Precisely.
“- And who benefits from pretending he was just a peripheral figure?”
Every single corporate sponsor and political entity tied to the 2020 Olympics.
If he's a co-associate the entire $7 billion apparatus is tainted.
- We have to look at how the real world reacted. When these files were released under the EVA, because the impact hit Wasserman's empire immediately. This was not a story that stayed confined to the political sphere.
It hit his primary business operations. - Hit them hard. - Wasserman music is a powerhouse talent agency. Following the document dump, major artists read the room and publicly severed ties.
The pop star Shappel-Rone dropped the agency almost overnight. I'm looking at a public statement regarding the departure. I refused to passively stand by. The Olympic gold medalist soccer star Abby Wamback, also publicly severed ties with the organization.
- The fallout forced a massive corporate restructuring. The business press tracked the subsequent fire sale of the powerhouse music agency. Wasserman sold off the music division amidst the intense scrutiny generated
by the EVA fee releases. - Because the artists read the e-mails, they looked at the flight logs, and they decided the association was toxic to their own brands.
The talent market enacted an immediate penalty. Shappel-Rone and Abby Wamback represent a demographic that demands ethical accountability and they exercise their financial power.
- Which brings us to the $7 billion question.
If the talent market forced accountability, if musicians and athletes refused to be associated with him, how do the international sports apparatus respond? We have to look at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics operation and the total non-response from the International Olympic Committee,
the IOC. We need to establish the baseline here.
“You have to understand the historical precedent”
for how international sports organizations react when their leadership is linked to abuse scandals or criminal networks. The standard protocol is immediate suspension, resignation, or a massive independent ethics purge
pending a full investigation. - We have seen this repeatedly across different sports. Look at the total collapse and restructuring of US gymnastics following the Larry Nassart coverup. When it became clear that executives ignored the warning signs,
entire boards were forced out. High-level executives resigned in disgrace. - Right, or look at the FIFA Corruption Purge, where executives were rated, suspended, and permanently removed,
simply for financial improprieties and bribery. The historical baseline dictates that institutional proximity to a massive scandal results in immediate leadership changes, pending an external investigation. - Now, track the LA 28 micro time line,
following the ETA document dump. Our by-hour, the deviation from historical precedent becomes glaring. - Walk through it. - The files go public.
The BBC and Los Angeles Times published the specific contents of the emails. The public sees the tight leather outfit, quote. In the immediate aftermath, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and other elected politicians
publicly call for Wasserman's resignation. The pressure reaches the executive level. - The LA 28 executive board convenes. And according to established sports ethics protocols, this is the exact moment an interim chair is named,
while an independent investigation assesses the risk. The board is supposed to protect the institution, not the individual. - Instead, the board issues a statement declaring that Kasey Wasserman should continue to lead LA 28
and deliver a safe and successful games. They do not suspend them. They do not initiate an independent probe into his ties to the Epstein network. They back him completely.
- And the International Olympic Committee, the IOC, issues total silence. They decline to apply any public pressure or release any statement regarding that YFTA documents. - We must run the cover-up check on this institutional response.
The official board statement claims Wasserman is fit to lead and deliver a safe games. The official position is that his past correspondence
From 2003 does not compromise
his current leadership capabilities for 2028. - That contradicts all established ethics protocols. Analyze the incentive structure. The LA 28 games do not just represent a sporting event.
They represent a $7 billion financial apparatus.
We are talking about massive corporate sponsorships from Fortune 500 companies, exclusive media broadcasting rights with billions and massive public infrastructure commitments from the state of California.
“Does a $7 billion price tag buy institutional immunity?”
- The evidence suggests that it absolutely does. - When the financial stakes reach a certain threshold, the institution will prioritize stability over accountability. The IOC silence is not an oversight. It is a calculated corporate decision to protect the revenue stream.
Replacing the chairman of an Olympic organizing committee this close to the event creates financial panic. - Sponsors get nervous. - Broadcasters demand reassurances. The board looked at the emails, looked at the money,
and chose the money. - We have to investigate the void. We have examined the emails that are in the EVE files, but we must direct your attention to what is not in the files, the blind spots and the missing records.
- This is the vetting black hole. - The released files show the Wasserman Maxwell correspondence, we have the proof of their familiar banter, but what did the broader unredacted communications between Wasserman and Jeffrey Epstein look like?
If Wasserman was emailing Maxwell with this level of familiarity, are we expected to believe there were no direct communications with Epstein himself?
“- Epstein was the principal, Maxwell was the facilitator.”
- Exactly. - The gaps in the documentary record are massive. The Justice Department admitted during their press conferences, that they withheld certain files based on privileges or ongoing investigations.
We do not have the complete picture of the communications. But we do have evidence of internal board panic that contradicts their public statements of support. - Bring in the evidence from the deadline reporting.
This is a crucial piece of the puzzle.
Behind closed doors, while the LA 28 board was publicly stating that Wasserman was perfectly fit to lead the games, they were privately floating former house speaker, Kevin McCarthy, as a potential replacement for him. - The official board statement expressed total confidence
in Wasserman. - Break that down. If you have total confidence in your chairman, you do not privately assess political heavy weights for succession in the middle of a media firestorm. You do not float a former speaker of the house,
unless you are preparing for a catastrophic collapse in leadership. - The internal tension reveals what the board actually believed. They recognized the extreme toxicity of the EFTA documents.
“They panicked about the public optics and sponsor fallout”
and they quietly search for an exit strategy while maintaining a unified public front. They were building a lifeboat while telling the public the ship was fine. - There is also a glaring media gap.
CNN noted in their broadcast that this story did not break as widely or aggressively as expected, given Wasserman's massive profile and Hollywood. Analyze the mainstream entertainment media's muted response. Wasserman sits at the absolute center
of the talent representation industry. Hollywood media relies on access to his agencies, his clients, and his boardrooms. The restrained coverage is a direct reflection of his power within that specific ecosystem.
- Trade publications thrive on access journalism. - If you go after Casey Wasserman, you lose access to the biggest stars, the biggest directors, and the most lucrative inside scoops. The industry is looking the other way
because the cost of scrutinizing the man who controls the Olympic contracts and the talent pipelines is simply too high for their business models. - We must run a final cover-up check
on the concept of accountability. Does Wasserman selling his talent agency constitute accountability for his connections to the F-steen network? - Rip that premise apart.
Selling a music agency for a massive lucrative profit while maintaining total control
over the $7 billion Olympic organizing committee
is not accountability. It is strategic repositioning. It is a corporate maneuver designed to weather the immediate scrutiny. He shed the assets that are most vulnerable
to public pressure, like pop stars, who can publicly resign on social media, while keeping the crown jewel. - He retains the power. - The immense global prestige
and the absolute control over the LA 28 games. It is a shell game disguises consequence. - We need to pull all these threads together for you. The EFTA documents prove in writing a familiar suggestive relationship
between Casey Wasserman and Gislane Maxwell. We have the emails. We have the Xoxo. We have the request for tight letter outfits. We have the flight manifest,
proving prolonged physical proximity on Epstein's private plane across the African continent. Proximity to the Epstein network has destroyed careers, dismantled fortunes, and led to criminal charges globally.
Yet in this specific case, the individual maintains uncontested control of a $7 billion international event. - The evidence leads us to the institutional protection thesis. When an institution has enough financial exposure,
It will provide cover instead of consequences.
The scale of the financial stake overrides the documented evidence. The 2028 Los Angeles Olympics
“are proceeding under the leadership of a man”
whose connections to the Epstein network
have never been subjected to an independent ethics
investigation by the IOC. The historical precedent of accountability has been completely abandoned to protect the event. - We want to leave you the final question to mull over. If the paper drill we have,
the emails in the flight logs released under the FTA,
is enough to force musicians and athletes to immediately cut ties. What exactly do the corporate sponsors of the 2028 Olympics know that the public doesn't? And how much money is institutional silence worth?
“Remember, this is an ongoing investigation”
and everything we cited is sourced at EpsteinFiles.fm. Next time on the EpsteinFiles. File 103 Thor Bjorn Jaglan set up a Putin meeting for Epstein, Norway just charged him.
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