Whoopi Goldberg’s awkward on-air confession about why she’s named within the Epstein information
Whoopi Goldberg was forced to make an awkward on-air confession about why her name appears in the Epstein files during Tuesday’s episode of The View.
Shortly after reality star Savannah Chrisley was controversially introduced as a guest panelist for the rest of the week, the co-host, 70, announced that her name came up in an email exchange between Jeffrey Epstein and a redacted individual.
The message centered on an attempt to find a private plane for Goldberg to jet to Monaco to attend an event hosted by Julian Lennon’s charity, the White Feather Foundation.
As the email appeared on the screen, Goldberg pointedly said: ‘Now, in the name of transparency… my name is in the files.’
Reading the message aloud, she continued: ‘It says, “Whoopi needs a plane to get to Monaco… Julian Lennon’s charity is paying for it. They don’t want to charter so they’re looking for private owners. Here’s the info.”
‘And they give all the information and they’re saying, “Do you want to offer your G2?”‘
At this, co-host Sunny Hostin stressed that Epstein declined the offer in a separate message.
‘And it looks like they said no thanks,’ she pointed out.
Whoopi Goldberg made a point of explaining why her name appears in the Epstein files
Being named in the documents released by the Department of Justice does not assume any guilt or wrongdoing connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes
Joy Behar added: ‘So, in other words, anyone can be on this list?’
Goldberg went on to implore that she was not a friend nor a girlfriend of Epstein.
‘This is my point because, when I tell you people are trying to turn me into…’ she said. ‘I wasn’t his girlfriend. I wasn’t his friend.
‘I was not only too old, but it was at a time where this is just not…. You used to have to have facts before you said stuff.’
At this point, Behar, 83, delighted in saying that President Donald Trump’s name has appeared in the files 38,000 times.
‘I can’t speak to him, but I’m speaking about me because I’m getting dragged,’ Goldberg responded.
‘People actually believe that I was with him. It’s like, honey, come on. Every man I’ve ever been with, you’ve known about ’em because either The Enquirer wrote about it, people wrote about this stuff.’
Being named in the Epstein files does not assume any guilt or wrongdoing connected to Epstein’s heinous child sex crimes.
Goldberg stressed that she was neither a girlfriend nor friend of Epstein
Joy Behar made sure to point out that President Trump appears in the files 38,000 times
In January 2024, Goldberg shut down speculation that she was on the Epstein list.
During an episode of The View, she said: ‘I have to explain, because there was a fake list, and I’m on it.’
Hostin, 57, jokingly asked: ‘So you were on the island?’
‘Apparently, I don’t know, they said I was on an island,’ Goldberg replied. ‘And I’m like, “I don’t go anywhere.”
‘So I’m just going to say – and there’s just been a lot of stuff recently, I don’t know what I’ve done to anybody – but apparently there are a lot of the sites that are satire sites,’ she added at the time.
‘But people don’t realize that they can be harmful.’
Besides Goldberg, hundreds of high-profile individuals have shown up in the Epstein files, including politicians like the Obamas and singers such as Bruce Springsteen.
Since December, the Trump administration has been drip-releasing millions of emails, photos and documents relating to the case against disgraced financier Epstein.
Federal workers spent countless hours sifting through the data and releasing it in batches across December and January.
The Epstein files have forced top-tier businessmen and academics to resign from their posts.
They have also triggered high-profile marriages to break up and signaled the downfall of dignitaries such as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who was stripped of his royal titles last year.
