• What Happened: Dr. Peter Attia resigned as a CBS News contributor after the DOJ's release of Epstein files revealed his name appears over 1,700 times.
  • Why It Matters: Attia wrote to Epstein in 2015: "The life you lead is so outrageous, and yet I can't tell a soul," and exchanged sexually explicit banter with Epstein.
  • Bottom Line: CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss had reportedly resisted firing Attia, calling it cancel culture, but Attia ultimately resigned on his own effective immediately.

Another name from the Epstein files just cost someone their career, and this one landed right in the middle of a major American news network.

Dr. Peter Attia, a celebrity longevity doctor and health influencer who was just brought on as a CBS News contributor by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, resigned effective immediately Monday after the DOJ's release of Epstein documents revealed the extent of his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. His name appears over 1,700 times in the 3 million released files.

The emails are bad. In a June 2015 message, Attia wrote to Epstein directly: "You know the biggest problem with becoming friends with you? The life you lead is so outrageous, and yet I can't tell a soul." In another 2016 exchange, Attia made crude sexual jokes with Epstein about diet and women's anatomy. He also offered to help Epstein live longer "for the ladies."

All of this happened after Epstein's 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor.

Attia has denied any criminal wrongdoing, saying he was never on Epstein's plane, never on his island, and was not present at any sex parties. He claimed the emails were crude banter and that he did not fully understand the scope of Epstein's crimes until the 2018 Miami Herald investigation exposed them. "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 wrote on X.

Meanwhile, Bari Weiss had reportedly been fighting Paramount executives to keep Attia on staff, arguing that cutting him would amount to cancel culture. CBS had already quietly pulled a rerun of a 60 Minutes segment featuring him. Attia ultimately made the decision himself and walked.

The Epstein files keep pulling back the curtain. The list of people who knew, said nothing, and kept showing up to dinner is getting longer by the day.