Longevity ‘guru’ Dr Peter Attia has resigned as a contributor to CBS News, just before emails between him and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were noted in the Epstein files, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
CBS News staff were informed on Monday that Attia told CBS that he would be resigning effective immediately.
The timing of the resignation is just before it was revealed that there are about 1700 mentions of Attia’s name in the three million Epstein files the US Department of Justice released in January.
Controversial CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss brought Attia on as part of her overhaul of the network news division, seeking to diversify CBS’ linear and digital coverage.
Peter Attia resigns from CBS news
Shortly after that announcement, however, the DOJ released further exchanges of “crude banter”. CBS subsequently pulled a rerun of a 60 Minutes segment that featured Attia.
Attia informed his team and patients:
“I apologise and regret putting myself in a position where emails, some of them embarrassing, tasteless, and indefensible, are now public, and that is on me. I accept that reality and the humiliation that comes with it.”
The bulk of the emails between Attia and Epstein are from the mid-2010s – after Epstein was convicted (in 2008) on a Florida charge of soliciting prostitution from someone under 18, but before a 2018 Miami Herald exposé on a host of allegations against Epstein and his second arrest in 2019.