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Whoopi Fires Back After Epstein Files Drag Her Into Scandal

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Whoopi Goldberg declared “My name is in the files” on live television Tuesday before flatly rejecting any link to Jeffrey Epstein.

The “The View” co-host addressed the controversy head-on as new Epstein documents continue to circulate, telling viewers she wanted to clear the air.

“In the name of transparency,” she began, asking producers to put the email on screen. “My name is in the files.”

Goldberg explained that her name appeared in a 2013 email referencing a planned trip to Monaco.

The message claimed “John Lennon’s charity is paying for it” and asked whether Epstein would provide his private plane.

She told viewers the reference should have been to Julian Lennon’s charity, not John Lennon’s.

The Justice Department document shows Epstein responding with “no thnaks [sic],” declining the request.

Sunny Hostin underscored that point during the exchange. “And it looks like they said no thanks,” she noted, reinforcing that no flight ever happened.

Joy Behar framed Goldberg’s defense as a warning about how easily names can appear in records. “Anybody can be on this list,” Behar observed.

Goldberg pushed back at speculation that she had any relationship with the disgraced financier.

“Well, this is my point! Because I’m telling you, when I tell you people are trying to turn me into, I wasn’t his girlfriend. I wasn’t his friend,” she said, brushing off Behar’s joke that she was “too old” for Epstein.

“I was not only too old, but it was at a time, you know, where this is just not – you used to have facts before you said stuff!”

When Behar referenced President Donald Trump’s own name appearing in the files, Goldberg steered the focus back to herself.

“I can’t speak to him, I’m speaking about me because I’m getting dragged,” she insisted. “People actually believe that I was with him, it’s like, ‘Honey, come on.’ Every man that I’ve ever been with, you’ve known about because either the Enquirer wrote about it, people wrote about this stuff.”

“So no, I never had this, and no, I didn’t get on the plane because you know what I would have to do to get on the plane?” Goldberg went on.

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Her co-hosts chimed in with the obvious answer, “fly,” prompting Goldberg to remind viewers she does not fly.

“So they’re trying to get me to get on a plane to get to this thing for Julian Lennon,” she added, dismissing the theory as implausible.

The moment was not Goldberg’s first attempt to shut down rumors tied to Epstein. In January 2024 she confronted similar claims during another episode.

“I have to explain, because there was a fake list, and I’m on it,” she said at the time.

Hostin joked, “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.’”

She warned then that satire sites can blur lines for readers.

“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 remarked. “But people don’t realize that they can be harmful.”

Her renewed defense comes as Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that “all” Epstein files have been released in accordance with Section 3 of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

The letter lists more than 300 high-profile names, including Trump, Prince Harry, Bill Gates, Woody Allen, and Bruce Springsteen, amongst others.

The release has fueled heated exchanges on “The View,” where discussions about the files have dominated recent broadcasts.

Tensions escalated further this week after Savannah Chrisley joined the table as a guest co-host.

Chrisley, 28, whose parents Todd and Julie Chrisley were pardoned by President Trump last year after serving time for tax evasion and bank fraud, defended the administration’s handling of the documents during Tuesday’s episode.

She argued that the Justice Department had been “transparent” and urged private depositions for former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

“The Clintons are, in fact, trying to twist things and get sound bites from a public hearing,” she said.

“So having a deposition allows each individual to have different members of their teams, and they’re asking the right questions, the hard questions to then gather it for.”

Her appearance sparked backlash from some viewers, with fans threatening to boycott the ABC program before she even took her seat.

Chrisley addressed her participation in December, acknowledging the tension.

“I’m totally going outside of my comfort zone by doing The View,” she said. “I mean, this is a show that… these personalities have bashed my family, have bashed me.”

“These are the same women who made a comment to the extent of, ‘Wonder what she had to do for those pardons.’”

Hillary Clinton weighed in separately during an interview with the BBC, rejecting claims of ties to Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell.

“We have no links,” she stated. “We have a very clear record that we’d been willing to talk about, which my husband has said he took some rides on the airplane for his charitable work. I don’t recall ever meeting him.”

When asked whether she met Maxwell, Clinton acknowledged, “I did, on a few occasions.”

She accused the Trump administration of delaying full disclosure.

“Get the files out. They are slow-walking it,” Clinton argued, while also calling her upcoming appearance before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee a “shiny object” for Republicans.

“I think everybody should testify who is asked to testify,” she added. “I just want it to be fair. I want everybody treated the same way. We have nothing to hide.”

“We have called for the full release of these files repeatedly. We think sunlight is the best disinfectant,” Clinton concluded.

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