CBS News Pulls Peter Attia ‘60 Minutes’ Segment Amid Epstein Ties
CBS News will pull a segment of “60 Minutes” featuring Peter Attia on Sunday due to the contributor’s links to Jeffrey Epstein, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The segment, an October interview with correspondent Norah O’Donnell, was expected to feature in a re-run of the nighttime news program set to air against Super Bowl LX.
CBS News declined to comment.
The call comes as CBS is expected to cut ties with the new contributor altogether after Attia’s name appeared more than 1,700 times in the latest dump of Epstein correspondence.
TheWrap reported on a battle between Paramount’s corporate leadership, which wants to remove Attia, and CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, who wants to keep her new hire on.
“It’s Bari versus everyone right now on Attia,” said an individual with knowledge of the internal discussion.
Among the three million emails released on Friday, Attia was found communicating several times with Epstein in a friendly and crude manner. In 2015, he lamented that the “worst part about being (Epstein’s) friend is that the life you lead is so outrageous, and yet I can’t tell a soul…” In 2016, Attia joked that “P—y is, indeed, low carb. Still awaiting results on gluten, though.” You can see the messages for yourself below.
Attia, a physician and founder of Outlive, is an expert on wellness and longevity. His YouTube channel has over 1 million subscribers, where he’s a frequent voice on the health and wellness topic and has carved out a niche on longevity. He also boasts 1.7 million Instagram followers.
Attia posted an apology on X that he said he also sent to his team: “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.”
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