Whoopi Goldberg shuts down any links to Epstein while addressing name appearing in files on 'The View'
Co-host's name appears in 2013 email about a Monaco trip in which someone asked Epstein to offer her his private plane
By Hanna Panreck Fox News
Published February 17, 2026 3:23pm EST
"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg addressed her name coming up in the Jeffrey Epstein files during the show on Tuesday, shutting down any link to the late convicted child sex offender.
"In the name of transparency," Goldberg began as she asked for the email to appear on the screen. "My name is in the files."
Goldberg's name is mentioned in an email from 2013, where someone says that she needs a plane to Monaco and that "John Lennon's charity is paying for it." Goldberg said that it should have said Julian Lennon's charity and explained that the email went on to ask Epstein if he would offer his private plane. The document released by the Justice Department showed Epstein responding with "no thnaks [sic]."
Co-host Joy Behar said Goldberg's point in addressing the message was that "anybody can be on this list."
"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," Goldberg said, as Behar quipped she was "too old" for him. "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 then brought up President Donald Trump being in the files, Goldberg said she was speaking about herself.
"I’m speaking about me because I’m getting dragged," she said. "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?"
Her co-hosts then said, "fly," as Goldberg acknowledged that she doesn't fly.
"So they’re trying to get me to get on a plane to get to this thing for Julian Lennon," she continued.
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