The Intercept81%
Daughter of 2028 Olympics Chair Casey Wasserman Trains for Israel Team 70%
By Noah Hurowitz73%
6/7/2026, 10:00:00 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 31 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Appeal to Authority, and Availability Heuristic, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 44.4% saturation with 356 hits. Analysis detected 2,622 faulty-reasoning hits from 801 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 63.3% and a BS Rank of 70% (6,181 of 20,366 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 69.70% of the article peer group.
Casey Wasserman, the entertainment super-agent, has attracted his fair share of controversy as the head of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee.
In addition to passionate debates about the Olympics themselves — the geopolitics of the Games and their effect on local hosts — 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.
The controversies, especially revelations about his relationship with a member of Epstein’s inner circle, nearly led to Wasserman’s ouster from his role atop LA28, the Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee.
Now, another personal wrinkle is coming to light: Wasserman’s daughter, Stella, is training to compete for the Israeli equestrian team at the 2028 Games.
The participation of Wasserman’s daughter in the Games could create an awkward dynamic for the local Olympic chief.
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’s plans to compete with the Israeli team.
There’s 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 — 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.)
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 “number one concern,” according to Algemeiner, a right-wing, New York-based newspaper covering Jewish issues.
Olympian Hypocrisies
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.
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.
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 — 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.
The yearslong campaign by Wasserman and others — including former Mayor Eric Garcetti — 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.
“Mega-events like the Olympics or the World Cup don’t necessarily create problems from whole cloth, but they accelerate them.”
“When 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,” said Jonny Coleman, an organizer with NOlympics LA.
“Mega-events like the Olympics or the World Cup don’t necessarily create problems from whole cloth, but they accelerate them.”
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.
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 — a coveted slot not least for the millions the exposure can bring.
For Coleman, Casey Wasserman’s relationship to Ghislaine Maxwell and Stella Wasserman’s potential competition on behalf of Israel only further highlights the corrupt nature of the Olympics.
“We know these mega-events are a way to legitimize awful regimes,” said Coleman.
“It’s disgusting, but I don’t really care about the supposed integrity of the sports, personally.
So yeah, let her play — why not?”
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