Sarah Haines also stood up for Goldberg, saying that names of celebrities can appear in those files for various reasons, noting that even the names of Elvis Presley and Marylin Monroe were included in the recently released documents.
“A lot of reasons your name can be mentioned is news articles, third-party emails, contacts,” Haines, 48, said. “Wealthy, famous people often cross in professional circles and social circles, so that’s not the surprising part.”
Haines added, “I think the part most people — including myself — are looking for is an accountability for the people that had a depth of relationship, the timing of that relationship and the nature of that relationship.
“Nobody wants to know that young girls were victimized and because of power and money, people turned their cheeks. Nobody should be above scrutiny. No amount of status should soften abuse.”
The only direct link between Whoopi Goldberg and Jeffrey Epstein that could be found in the documents is an email from an unknown sender to Epstein on May 8, 2013.
In it, the sender asks if Epstein would be able to lend Goldberg his plane so she could fly to Monaco. The reason for her trip was an invitation to an event hosted by the White Feather Foundation , an environmental and health charity founded by Julian Lennon. The sender also mentioned that the cost of the trip would be covered by the charity, which preferred using a private plane rather than a charter service.
Epstein’s answer to the email was a brief “no thnaks (sic),” according to the GB News .
While initial releases of the Epstein files occurred at the end of last year, the Justice Department released over 3 million additional documents related to the case in January, 2026.
The name of Whoopi Goldberg does appear elsewhere in the documents, but that does not prove that she has ever socialized with the disgraced financier. A great many of these references are merely newsletters promoting events featuring her.
Goldberg and her co-hosts have been discussing the Epstein files during numerous occasions on the show, with her first bringing up rumors of her name being in the files during the January 4, 2024, episode.
“Apparently, they said I was on the island. And I don’t go anywhere,” she said at the time, in reference to Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands. “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 anyone — but apparently there are a lot of the sites people don’t realize they can be harmful.”
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