CBS News Expected to Cut Ties With Newly-Announced Contributor Over Links to Epstein: Report

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Wellness guru Dr. Peter Attia, who was recently hired as a CBS News contributor, spoke out on X Monday after embarrassing emails to Jeffrey Epstein were revealed in the DOJ’s latest document release — on the heels of a report that the network is expected to cut ties with him.

CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss  announced Attia’s addition earlier last week as one of the network’s 19 new contributors, before the Friday release of 3.5 million files.

The Wrap reported Monday that the Paramount-owned broadcaster reportedly may be reconsidering Attia’s position as contributor. According to The Wrap, Attia’s name appears more than 1,700 times in the latest tranche of Epstein files that included personal email exchanges with Epstein.

In one email from 2015, Attia wrote to Epstein: the “worst part about being your friend is that the life you lead is so outrageous, and yet I can’t tell a soul…”

In another from 2016, the wellness guru joked about nutrition with Epstein by saying: “P—y is, indeed, low carb. Still awaiting results on gluten, though.”

Weiss’s wife, Free Press co-founder Nellie Bowles, also appears in the Epstein files in the form of emails from 2018. Bowles wrote on X Saturday that she merely contacted Epstein to report on him for The New York Times, and that her work was no “secret.”

Attia posted a lengthy email on X Monday that read in part:

“To be clear:

“1. I was not involved in any criminal activity.

“2. My interactions with Epstein had nothing to do with his sexual abuse or exploitation of anyone.

“3. I was never on his plane, never on his island, and never present at any sex parties.

“That said, I apologize 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.”

Attia continued, “I am not asking for a pass from you. I am not asking anyone to ignore the emails or pretend they aren’t ugly. They simply are. The man I am today, roughly ten years later, would not write them and would not associate with Epstein at all. Whatever growth I’ve had over the past decade does not erase the emails I wrote then.”

A CBS News spokesperson did not immediately respond to The Wrap for comment.

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