Dr. Peter Attia is stepping down from CBS News just weeks after being named as a contributor under boss Bari Weiss – following the recent release of Epstein files showing his chummy relationship over hundreds of emails with the late financier and sex offender, The Post has learned.
The anti-aging researcher said Monday he would be resigning effective immediately, a source familiar with the matter told The Post.
CBS announced the news in a Monday letter to staffers, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Earlier this month, Attia stepped down as chief science officer for David Protein, a popular wellness protein bar brand, according to the company.
Attia, 52, was one of the high-profile contributors brought to CBS News under Weiss, who was hired by Paramount Skydance boss David Ellison to bring more conservative voices to the network.
Not long after the editor in chief announced Attia’s hiring, a Justice Department release uncovered troves of correspondence between Attia and the late disgraced Jeffrey Epstein – including a joke that female genitals counted as a “low carb.”
Still, some expected Weiss to keep Attia on at the network since she is an outspoken critic of “cancel culture.”
CBS News and Paramount did not immediately respond to The Post’s requests for comment.
Among the 3 million documents released earlier this year under the “Epstein Files Transparency Act,” Attia’s name is mentioned a stomach-churning 1,741 times.
“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…” Attia wrote in a 2015 email – with the chilling subject line “Got a fresh shipment.”
A photo of the “shipment” was redacted from the files.
In an email from 2016 – eight years after Epstein was convicted of procuring a child for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute – Attia wrote: “P—y is, indeed, low carb. Still awaiting results on gluten, though.”
In another email to Epstein’s longtime assistant Lesley Groff, Attia complained that he would “go into JE withdrawal” if he didn’t see Epstein soon.
Attia – who boasts 1.7 million followers on Instagram and another half a million on X – insisted in a lengthy statement earlier this month that his correspondence with Epstein had nothing to do with the “sexual abuse or exploitation of anyone” and that he “was not involved in any criminal activity.”
“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,” he wrote in the statement.
“I am not asking anyone to ignore the emails or pretend they aren’t ugly. They simply are.”
Epstein killed himself in a New York City jail cell in 2019 while facing federal charges related to the sex trafficking of minors.
The Epstein files release to date have included a stunning range of big names, including former Prince Andrew, who was arrested on his birthday last week for suspicion of misconduct in public office.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently backed out of an AI summit in India just hours before he was scheduled to deliver the keynote address following heated backlash over his ties to the Epstein files.
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