Dr. Peter Attia issued a lengthy apology after the recently released files linked to a case against a convicted rape victim Jeffrey Epstein he said he chose to stay in New York City to meet a sex trafficker while his wife and child were in the ICU.
“I’m sorry and I regret putting myself in a position where emails, some of which are embarrassing, tasteless, and indefensible, are now public, and that’s on me,” wrote Attia, 52, on Monday, February 2, in a statement shared by X after allegedly sending the same message to his team and patients. “I accept that fact and the humiliation that comes with it.”
Attia, a so-called longevity researcher, came under fire on Friday, January 30, after emails allegedly sent between the late Epstein and promoters, including Attia, were released by the Justice Department. (Epstein committed suicide in 2019 at the age of 66 while in prison awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.)
In another email dated July 12, 2017, Attia and Epstein allegedly communicated back and forth to confirm plans to meet the next morning.
“Can you do so before 10am? Tomorrow,” the email purportedly sent from Epstein read. Attia is said to have replied, “Sure. I can come early, too, if you ever get up hard at 10. Let me know.”
Although the exchange may not be obvious to many, Attia agreed to leave his wife, Jilland an infant son to face a health scare without him at the same time.
“On Tuesday, July 11, 2017, at 5:45 pm, to be – I had received a call from Jill, my wife,” Attia wrote in his letter, Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevitypublished in 2022.
The doctor recalled in his letter that his wife called him from the back of the ambulance because their son had “suddenly stopped breathing” and his heart was not beating. The child was revived with CPR by a nurse, but did not make it out of the woods.
Dr. Peter Attia.
Dipasupil/Getty Images“When Jill called me in the ambulance, I was in New York, in a taxi on Fifty-Fourth Street, on my way to dinner,” Peter wrote. “After he finished telling me the story, I just said, without heartbreak, ‘Okay, call me when you get to the hospital, so I can talk to the doctors in the ICU.'”
Eagle-eyed fans noticed that Jill called her husband one day before he emailed Epstein while he was in New York to confirm their meeting.
According to Attia’s letter, he stayed in New York “busy with my ‘important’ work for 10 days after his son had a heart attack – and for four days his wife and child were in the ICU in California.
Although Attia did not directly address the alleged connection between his 2017 trip to New York and left his wife and son alone, he denied that he was a person who “participated in, knew about, or witnessed the criminal activity,” which Peter said was the DOJ’s “purpose” to release Epstein’s documents.
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“I am not in any of those categories, and there is no evidence to the contrary,” he said in a statement on Monday. “To be clear: 1. I was not involved in any criminal activity. 2. My interaction with Epstein had nothing to do with his sexual harassment or exploitation of anyone. 3. I was never on his plane, on his island, and never at any sex parties.”
In addition to seemingly abandoning her family to meet Epstein in 2017, Attia’s name was mentioned more than 1,700 times in the latest set of released files.
Attia tried to explain her connection with Epstein in her statement, noting that they met in 2014 “with a prominent female health leader while I was raising money for scientific research.”
Attia explained that between the summer of 2014 and the spring of 2019 she met with Epstein “about seven or eight times at his home in New York City, about research studies and meeting with others that I could introduce to.”
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He said he “never visited” Epstein’s farm or island and “never” flew in any of his planes.
“I was not his doctor, although I often answered general medical questions and recommended other providers to him,” said Attia.
He then deleted one email between himself and Epstein that was allegedly sent in 2015 – and he didn’t paint Attia in the best light.
“In June 2015, I sent Epstein an email with the subject line ‘I got a new shipment,’” Attia recalled. “The email contained a picture of bottles of metformin, a drug I had just received from the pharmacy to use. The subject line referred to a picture of medication bottles.”
Jeffrey Epstein.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement via Getty ImagesEpstein allegedly responded with the words “me too” and returned “a picture of an old woman.”
Attia admitted, “I responded with a scream and in poor taste,” admitting that it is now “very embarrassing,” to see the way he interacted with Epstein. “I will not defend you. I am ashamed of everything about this. At the time, I understood this exchange as a child, not referring to anything dark or dangerous,” he added.
Attia said in 2018 that she found out that Epstein’s conviction in 2008, allegedly for “prostitution-related crimes,” was “reduced significantly,” which is when she began to distance herself from the man. (Epstein was convicted in Florida in 2008 of soliciting prostitution of a person under 18.)
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“I was incredibly naive to believe him. I misjudged his public acceptance in the eyes of the faithful people I saw as acceptance, and that was a big mistake in my thinking,” Attia wrote. “To be clear, I’ve never seen any illegal behavior and I’ve never seen anyone appear juvenile in front of him.”
He continued, “Nothing in this letter is intended to minimize the damage suffered by the girls who were abused by Epstein.
Attia noted that he wasn’t “asking for a pass” from anyone, but said that nearly 10 years after he sent the emails to Epstein — and as the man he is today — he “wouldn’t write them and wouldn’t associate himself with Epstein at all.”
“I realize that my actions and my words have consequences for the people I care about the most, including all of you,” he concluded. “I regret the cost this has put on you, and I take responsibility for it.”
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