Peter Attia, a health care provider and writer well-known for his analysis on longevity, is apologizing for what he calls “embarrassing, tasteless, and indefensible” emails he exchanged with Jeffrey Epstein, after the messages got here to mild within the Justice Division’s newest launch of recordsdata associated to the Epstein case.
He has not been accused of prison wrongdoing. However Attia’s title seems within the data launched by the Justice Division lots of of occasions and his communications with Epstein are extra intensive than beforehand identified.
Attia was just lately named as a contributor to CBS Information. CBS’ mother or father firm, Paramount Skydance, had no remark.
Among the many messages, in 2016, Attia wrote to Epstein, “P***y is, certainly, low carb. Nonetheless awaiting outcomes on gluten content material, although.”
After information reviews concerning the emails, Attia posted on X an extended apology and account of his relationship with Epstein. He denied any involvement in prison exercise, stated he by no means flew on Epstein’s airplane, by no means visited his island and by no means attended “any intercourse events.”
The final correspondence between Attia and Epstein seems to have occurred within the spring of 2019, shortly earlier than Epstein’s arrest in July and loss of life on Aug. 10.
He stated he regretted “placing myself able the place emails, a few of them embarrassing, tasteless, and indefensible, at the moment are public,” and went on to say, “I settle for that actuality and the humiliation that comes with it.”
Attia stated in his put up that between 2014 and 2019, he met with Epstein “on roughly seven or eight events at his New York Metropolis house.” He stated they met “relating to analysis research and to satisfy others.”
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Included within the paperwork launched Friday was an trade from 2015 wherein Attia had written a word — redacted by the Justice Division — that bore the topic line, “Acquired a contemporary cargo.” Epstein responded, “me too,” with a photograph that was additionally redacted. Attia responded, “Please inform (me) you discovered that image on line … bastard.”
“fraid not,” Epstein stated.
Attia wrote again that “the most important downside with changing into associates with you” is that “[t]he life you lead is so outrageous, and but I can not inform a soul.”
Attia claimed in his social media put up that the “contemporary cargo” referred to a redacted {photograph} of metformin, “a medicine I had simply acquired from the pharmacy for my very own use.” (Attia used to take the drug for anti-aging causes however stated he stopped in 2018 as a result of it had destructive results round train.)
Epstein’s “me too” response included “{a photograph} of an grownup girl,” Attia stated.
“I responded with crude, tasteless banter. Studying that trade now may be very embarrassing, and I cannot defend it. I am ashamed of myself for the whole lot about this,” Attia stated. “On the time, I understood this trade as juvenile, not a reference to something darkish or dangerous.”
Epstein at that time had a document as a intercourse offender from a case in Florida the place he’d accepted a 2008 plea deal to keep away from federal fees. In 2019, he was arrested on federal intercourse trafficking fees. His loss of life in his jail cell in August 2019 was dominated a suicide.
Attia stated he requested Epstein about his 2008 conviction in Florida and stated Epstein “characterised it as prostitution-related fees.”
“In 2018, I got here to study this was grossly minimized,” Attia stated. However he additionally maintained, “I by no means witnessed unlawful conduct and by no means noticed anybody who appeared underage in his presence.”
Attia is the founding father of Outlive, an app that interprets longevity science into customized every day observe, and Early Medical, a medical observe that goals to assist sufferers lengthen their wholesome lifespan. He’s the host of the podcast “The Peter Attia Drive” and writer of “Outlive: The Science and Artwork of Longevity.”
