CBS News executives were weighing Monday evening whether to cut ties with anti-aging influencer Peter Attia in light of newly surfaced emails between him and late pal Jeffrey Epstein, The Post has learned.
Editor in chief Bari Weiss — a longtime critic of cancel culture — was said to be initially reluctant to do so, according to a source with knowledge of the matter.
But the increasingly persuasive argument within CBS News was that the outlet couldn’t platform an expert giving medical advice after hundreds of chummy, eyebrow-raising emails between Attia and Epstein surfaced, the person said.
CBS News declined to comment. The Post has sought comment from Attia and Weiss.
Attia’s disturbing emails with Epstein — in which Attia once joked that female genitals were “low carb” — came to light over the weekend, just days after he was named as one of CBS News’ 19 new contributors. The hire came as Weiss has sought to shake up the struggling outlet.
The Attia-Epstein emails were included in the trove of 3 million documents released Friday by the Department of Justice, as mandated by the “Epstein Files Transparency Act.” Attia is mentioned in the files 1,741 times.
In stomach-churning missives, the controversial anti-aging guru frequently asked about Epstein’s wellbeing and alluded to the convicted sex offender’s “outrageous” lifestyle.
The messages from Attia, 52, renowned as a “longevity influencer” specializing on metabolic health, included crude and offensive humor.
“P—y is, indeed, low carb. Still awaiting results on gluten, though,” Attia wrote in one email from 2016, eight years after Epstein had been convicted in Florida of procuring a child for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute.
Attia expressed remorse over his emails on Monday.
“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,” he said in a lengthy statement on X.
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