CBS News executives were weighing Monday evening whether to cut ties with anti-aging influencer Peter Attia in light of newly surfaced emails with 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 in light of his comments to Epstein, the person said.
CBS News declined to comment. The Post has sought comment from Attia and Weiss.
Over the weekend, it surfaced that Attia swapped hundreds of chummy, eyebrow-raising emails with Epstein — including once joking that female genitals counted as a “low carb.”
The disturbing correspondence came to light just days after the celebrity doctor was named as one of the network’s 19 new contributors.
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.
