India, March 25 -- The release of the so-called "Epstein Files" has sent shockwaves through political, corporate, and media circles, exposing a sprawling web of relationships between disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and some of the world's most influential figures. Among the latest to fall is Dr. Peter Attia, a prominent US-based longevity expert and newly appointed contributor to CBS News, whose resignation underscores the widening fallout from one of the most consequential document disclosures in recent history.

Attia's departure marks a defining moment in the unfolding crisis. His name appears more than 1,700 times in a massive trove of over three million pages of documents released by the US Department of Justice earlier this yea...