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- Peter Attia was named as a member of Eight Sleep's scientific advisory board in 2024.
- His picture has disappeared from the company's homepage.
- Attia has apologized for crude emails with Jeffrey Epstein and says he didn't witness wrongdoing.
Peter Attia, the prominent longevity doctor and CBS contributor who is under scrutiny for his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has vanished from a list of advisors for a sleep technology company.
Attia had been prominently showcased as one of three members of Eight Sleep's scientific advisory board, a post he had held since May 14, 2024. His photo no longer appears as part of the panel on the company homepage.
Company officials and Attia did not respond to requests for comment. It's not clear exactly when his name and photo were removed, but the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine shows they were there as recently as January 22.
The disappearance comes days after the Justice Department's latest release of documents from the investigation into Epstein, the well-connected financier who killed himself in jail while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in 2019.
Earlier this week, Attia addressed the appearance of his name in the files, saying that he was not involved in criminal activity and was never on Epstein's plane or private island or at any sex parties.
"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 added.
The documents include many email exchanges between Attia and Epstein, including one where he said that female genitalia is "indeed, low carb."
Attia subsequently stepped down as chief science officer of David Protein, a popular protein snack bar company he invested in and helped promote.
Days before his correspondence with Epstein became public, Attia was named by CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss as one of 19 new contributors. CBS has not publicly addressed his ties to Epstein.
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Attia is the founder of the longevity app Outlive, the author of the bestselling book "Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity," and host of the podcast "The Peter Attia Drive." He appeared on a segment of CBS's "60 Minutes" in October.
His emails with Epstein date to the mid to late 2010s — after Epstein's guilty plea for soliciting prostitution from a minor but before he was arrested on federal charges of running a sex-trafficking operation with British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.
In his statement, Attia said he met Epstein in 2014 and over the next five years, visited his Manhattan home seven or eight times to "research studies and to meet others he introduced me to."
"When I was at his home, it was either meeting with him directly, meeting with small groups of scientists, doctors, or business leaders, and once at a dinner in 2015 with a number of guests including prominent heads of state," he wrote. "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 ways it shouldn't have."
He said that he asked Epstein about his 2008 conviction and "he characterized it as prostitution-related charges."
"In 2018, I came to learn this was grossly minimized," Attia added. "I was incredibly naïve to believe him. I mistook his social acceptance in the eyes of the credible people I saw him with for acceptability, and that was a serious error in my judgment. To be clear, I never witnessed illegal behavior and never saw anyone who appeared underage in his presence."
Eight Sleep, founded in 2014 and the maker of "sleep fitness" products, was valued at $500 million in 2021. It recently raised a $100 million round in August.