Whoopi Goldberg is shutting down claims that she was associated with late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after her name appeared in the infamous files.
“In the name of transparency, my name is in the files. Yes!” the “Sister Act” actress shared on “The View” Tuesday morning.
Goldberg then read the May 2013 email where her name was mentioned, which stated that she needed a “plane to get to Monaco” for a charity event.
In response, Epstein denied the plane request, writing, “No thanks.”
Goldberg’s “View” co-host Joy Behar chimed in saying, “So in other words, anybody can be on this list?”
“This is my point because when I tell you, people are trying to turn me into … I wasn’t his girlfriend, I wasn’t his friend. I was not only too old [for him], but it was at a time where this is just not — you used to have to have facts before you said stuff.”
Behar, 83, interjected, saying President Donald Trump is mentioned in the Epstein files “38,000 times.”
“I can’t speak to him, but I’m speaking about me because I’m getting dragged,” Goldberg, 70, shared.
“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 didn’t get on the plane because you know what I would have to do to get on the plane? They’re trying to get me to get on a plane [to go to the charity event].”
“View” co-host Sara Haines said other stars, such as Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe, were named in the Epstein files due to “news articles, third-party emails, contacts.”
“Wealthy, famous people often cross in professional and social circles, so that’s not the surprising part,” Haines, 48, added.
Goldberg has been vocal about the Epstein files, which the Department of Justice recently released to the public over the last few months.
Earlier this month, the “Color Purple” star called out fellow women who were “complicit” in all of the disgraced financier’s crimes.
“Not only did they protect each other, but we were complicit in all of this. We are complicit,” she said on “The View.”
When Goldberg was questioned about her stance by her co-hosts, she replied, “Women didn’t say, ‘Hey, don’t do that. Don’t stand up for that.’ Women did not stand up for other women. Women saw what was going on and didn’t say, ‘Stop this.’ They didn’t come out and say this was going on.”
Following a 2005 investigation, Epstein pleaded guilty to procuring a child for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute, serving 13 months with work release.
He was charged in 2019 with sex trafficking of minors and accused of abusing dozens of underage girls. Epstein died by suicide in jail that year while awaiting trial.
His right-hand woman, Ghislaine Maxwell, is currently serving 20 years for sex trafficking.
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