The legal director of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics has resigned after LA28 President Casey Wasserman said he would remain president of the organization despite an extramarital affair scandal, TheWrap exclusively reported.
Tanya Olano, who has served as Wasserman’s lead counsel and legal adviser on the city’s Olympic efforts since 2015, left the position after Wasserman announced she would not leave the position, a person familiar with Olano’s decision told TheWrap.
Olano posted his decision to resign in an internal thread at The Sixth Avenue, without giving a reason, speaking to a person familiar with the matter at TheWrap.
A representative for LA28 did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment. Olano could not be found.
Empora has been involved in controversy ever since. The Daily Mail published a report from August Regarding his long-standing practice of chronically sleeping with executives, Wasserman said he was committed to the job during the second annual conference summit in Santa Monica, which was presented on CNBC and in the boardroom.
“You do my job and I do it,” Wasserman told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin when asked if the scandal could be a distraction. “We have more investment and we have more capacity to deliver the (best) outcome for the city.”
In August, the Daily Mail reported that Wasserman properties As a “serious traceiro” who chronically sleeps with sex workers, the report cited a history of alleged cases involving former secretary and cabinet chief Patricia Fu, who is now vice president of city headquarters relations for the non-profit organization LA28 Olympics. The report also cited Christine Merrill, a human resources officer, as well as Jenny Chandler, the former flight attendant on her private jet, who is now her girlfriend.
message, I got paid $350,017 in total compensation in 2022, according to IRS financial records, denied the case with Wasserman, telling the Daily Mail that her participation in the upcoming Olympics stemmed from her desire to represent the nation as a Los Angeles native.
Olano was also the biggest winner in 2022, taking home $693,970 from LA28, according to IRS records for the 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
“Think about the line,” Wasserman said of the Daily Mail report during the CNBC x Boardroom: Game Plan Summit. “If the Daily Mail is qualified to cover it, it’s because we’re all in trouble… We live in a time where people can say whatever they want, without facts, without collaboration, without sources, and that’s the world we live in. It reaches the tall trees.”
Two weeks after the scandal, Billie Eilish appeared at the Paris 2024 Olympics lock-up party, abandon wasserman As her and her brother Finneas O’Connell’s living booking agent on behalf of William Morris Endeavor, Eilish’s spokesperson told TheWrap: “Wasserman’s former living booking agents are thrilled to have Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell’s film, television and music selections under the same agency, WME, in the future.”
She joined the Olympic Nominating Committee in 2015, and after being promoted to the General Council in 2017, she played a key role in the structure of the LA28 joint venture as the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, as well as in sponsorship negotiations. She was promoted to Legal Director in 2021, then moved to Legal and People Director in 2022, before assuming the role of Administrative and Legal Director effective February of this year.
She also served as a key advisor to Wasserman during preparations for the Games. Vanity Fair profile revealed By Wasserman de Fevereiro, posted on LinkedIn: “Hello, this is my chef, Master of Ceremonies!”
Olano recently traveled to the Paris Olympics with Wasserman and his girlfriend Chandler, and according to a source familiar with the matter, played a prominent role in navigating the scandal in his own chef's class.
Sharon Waxman contributed to this story.
