US EditionCBS News Expected to Sever Ties with Contributor Attia over Epstein Links, the Wrap Reports
Peter Attia exchanged over 1,700 emails with Jeffrey Epstein, discussing longevity and staying at Epstein-owned properties, while facing scrutiny after DOJ document releases.
- CBS News is expected to cut ties with Peter Attia after the DOJ released 3 million Epstein files last week, according to sources familiar with Paramount's thinking.
- The DOJ files list over 1,700 mentions of Attia and hundreds of emails from 2015–2018, including stays in an Epstein-owned apartment and discussions about Little Saint James.
- Documented email threads show a June 2015 metformin email thread with crude banter and seven or eight meetings in New York City with Epstein, but Attia insists he was never on Epstein's plane or island.
- On Monday, Peter Attia sought to explain and apologize on X, saying he was not involved in criminal activity and that some emails are "embarrassing, tasteless and indefensible," while he appears removed from David Protein's webpages and medical experts reacted with outrage.
- The likely severing of ties threatens Bari Weiss's plan to add 19 contributors and raises reputational risks given Peter Attia's more than 1 million YouTube subscribers and 1.7 million Instagram followers.
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CBS News expected to sever ties with contributor Attia over Epstein links, the Wrap reports
Paramount-owned CBS News is expected to cut ties with new contributor Peter Attia over his dealings with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, the Wrap reported on Monday, citing an individual with knowledge of the parent company's thinking.
CBS Star Allegedly FIRED after EPSTEIN ties...
(New York, New York) – The name of one of CBS News’ newest star contributors has quietly disappeared from his second job following revelations about his long-standing ties to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Peter Attia, an anti-aging influencer recently brought on as a CBS News contributor, has been removed from the “expert” section of the David Protein website after his name appeared more than 1,700 times in the latest tranche of Epst…
CBS News contributor Peter Attia ‘ashamed’ as crude, ‘indefensible’ emails with pal Jeffrey Epstein emerge — and his job is on the line
Anti-aging physician and newly minted CBS News contributor Peter Attia admitted Monday he was "ashamed" after a trove of "very embarrassing" emails he once swapped with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein surfaced.
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