Hollywood pariah Casey Wasserman is being accused of trying to strong-arm $6 million from Papa John’s founder John Schnatter after secretly recording the pizza-making pioneer of using an alleged racial slur.

The bombshell allegation against the embattled chairman of the Los Angeles Organizing Committee for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games (LA28) comes after Wasserman put his marketing firm up for sale following newly surfaced emails revealing flirtatious exchanges with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s partner-in-grime Ghislaine Maxwell — leading numerous big-time clients to flee.

While a slew of politicians, including L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, are calling for Wasserman to step down from LA28, Schnatter’s recently slammed the Hollywood mogul and his ad agency Laundry Service, with a NEW subpoena in a 2019 breach of contract breach of contract lawsuit.

“Following recent revelations about Casey Wasserman’s potential ties to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, Mr. Schnatter’s team reviewed documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice,” Schnatter’s spokesperson Mark Serrano tells Deadline, referring to earlier statements he made about a Motion Picture and Television Fund’s Night Before (MPTF) gala event.

“They learned that not only did Mr. Wasserman and his then-wife receive packages from Epstein and Maxwell in late-2002, but also that in 2013, Epstein purchased a ticket to a fundraiser for the MPTF, of which Mr. Wasserman is a longtime board member,” Serrano adds. “This new information has raised serious questions about Mr. Wasserman’s prior testimony as a witness in Mr. Schnatter’s lawsuit against Laundry Service.”

Schnatter charges in 2018 he planned to fire Laundry Service because it was “not equipped to handle a client account as large as Papa John’s,” but Wasserman set the pizza maker up by secretly recorded conference call, according to the lawsuit obtained by InTouch.

“He was led to believe the call would concern new marketing initiatives for Papa John’s, but Laundry Service instead used the call to ask him questions regarding his views on race,” the lawsuit states, referring to the 2017 uproar over NFL players kneeling during the National Anthem.

“Throughout this call — which Laundry Service recorded without his knowledge — Mr. Schnatter spoke out against the insidious effects of racism in society and relayed some of his own experiences from growing up in Indiana.”

“At the end of the call, Mr. Schnatter criticized a well-known public figure for using a racial slur against African Americans and stated that he himself had ‘never used that word.’ He was thus both criticizing the use of the epithet and contrasting that it was something he himself had never done.”

Specifically, Schnatter was recorded saying: “Colonel Sanders called blacks n—–s,” while complaining the Kentucky Fried Chicken founder never faced public backlash.

At some point Wasserman, the grandson of the mob connected movie studio boss Lew Wasserman, threatened to “bury the founder” of Papa John if he didn’t cough up $6 million.

Schnatter claims Wasserman leaked the “edited” conversation to Forbes magazine “suggesting he had used a racial slur against African Americans” which led to his abrupt resignation of chairman of the company he managed for 30 years.

When Schnatter didn’t pay the $6 million, the conniving Wasserman then used the leaked recordings to announce Laundry Service was dropping Papa John’s in disgust.

“By providing this information maliciously and out of context, the Defendants interfered with Mr. Schnatter’s valid business relationships and prospective economic advantages,” the lawsuit state. “They are liable for the damages that followed from their actions.”