Dr. Peter Attiamost recent appearance of 60 minutes has been removed after being named in the latest batch of Epstein files.
Multiple outlets confirmed this in February 2026 CBS News will not air a repeat of the show, which includes Attia, who was recently named a series contributor. The segment first aired in October 2025 and featured a conversation with Norah O’Donnell.
Attia was announced as one of the 19 new ones 60 minutes contributors at the end of January 2026. A decision on his future on the show has yet to be confirmed, but Attia was named more than 1,800 times in the latest Epstein Files, released by the US Department of Justice.
Attia has since apologized for his connection to the late multi-millionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epsteinwho committed suicide at the age of 66 in 2019.
“I apologize and regret putting myself in a position where emails, some of them embarrassing, tasteless and indefensible, are now public, and that’s on me,” he shared in a lengthy statement via X after the Epstein files were released. “I accept this reality and the humiliation that comes with it.”
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Was Dr. Peter Attia friends with Jeffrey Epstein?
The Epstein files released in January 2026 included several documents of alleged correspondence between Attia and Epstein. In fact, it is estimated that Attia’s name was included about 1,800 times in the documents.
“I met Epstein in 2014 through a prominent health leader while raising funds for scientific research,” Attia told his statement on social networks. “At the time, he was widely known in academic and philanthropic circles as a science funder and moved openly between credible institutions and public figures.”
“About seven or eight occasions” were known between 2024 and 2019 in New York City, Attia alleged on social media.
“I never visited his island or ranch, and I never flew in one of his planes,” Attia added. “In retrospect, the presence and credibility of such venerable people in different orbits led me to make assumptions about him that clouded my judgment in a way I shouldn’t have.”
He added: “To be clear, I never witnessed any illegal behavior and I never saw anyone who appeared underage in their presence.”
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What did Dr. Peter Attia and Jeffrey Epstein’s emails say?
Two emails between Attia and Epstein have made the most headlines.
The first, sent in 2015, has Attia writing to Epstein with a subject line that reads “to a new shipment,” referring to various types of drugs. Epstein appeared to respond with “me too,” alongside a photo of women.
“I responded with crude and tasteless jokes. Reading this exchange now is very embarrassing and I will not stand for it,” Attia wrote in her post X. “I am ashamed of all this. At the time, I understood this exchange as juvenile, not a reference to anything dark or harmful.”
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Capital Pictures / MEGAAnother email, from July 2017, prompted Attia to arrange a meeting with Epstein in New York. The dates align with a family emergency that Attia wrote about in her 2022 book, Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity. Attia and wife JillThe son at that time had a cardiac arrest, while the doctor was “in New York, in a cab on Fifty-fourth Street, on his way to dinner.” Apparently the dinner he wrote about was with Epstein, according to the Epstein Files.
What did Dr. Peter Attia say about his connection to Jeffrey Epstein?
Attia made specific clarifications in his lengthy statement about X
“I was not involved in any criminal activity,” he wrote. “My interactions with Epstein had nothing to do with him sexually abusing or exploiting anyone.”
He added: “I was never on his plane, never on his island and never present at any sex party.”
Attia explained that the US DOJ aims to “identify individuals who participated in, enabled or witnessed criminal activity”. He added: “I am not in any of those categories, and there is no evidence to the contrary.”