Overview
- CBS staff were notified Monday that Attia resigned effective immediately, according to a booking department note reported by multiple outlets.
- Justice Department files list Attia roughly 1,700 times in a trove of about 3 million documents, with most emails dating to the mid-2010s.
- The correspondence shows crude, sexually explicit banter and friendly exchanges with Epstein, including a 2016 joke about female genitalia being “low carb.”
- CBS had earlier pulled a planned 60 Minutes rerun featuring Attia as internal debate over his hiring under editor-in-chief Bari Weiss persisted.
- Attia apologized for the emails, denied any criminal activity or travel on Epstein’s plane or island, and drew fresh criticism from John Oliver as he also stepped down from a separate role at David Protein.