{"id":234466,"date":"2026-02-13T13:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=234466"},"modified":"2026-02-13T13:50:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:50:33","slug":"us-health-official-invited-epstein-to-valentines-day-party-documents-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/234466\/","title":{"rendered":"US health official invited Epstein to Valentine\u2019s Day party, documents show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s administrator of the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, emailed an invitation to a Valentine’s Day party in 2016 to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Reuters<\/a> writes, referring to US Justice Department documents.<\/p>\n

Oz, formerly a celebrity physician on TV, sent the invite almost a decade after Epstein’s first sex crime charges became public in July 2006.<\/p>\n

The email, dated Feb. 1, 2016, and addressed from Oz and his wife to Epstein, has a subject line reading “Mehmet and Liza Oz’s Valentine’s Day Celebration.”<\/p>\n

Oz, however, is not accused of any crime in connection with Epstein’s case. His name has been mentioned several times in documents released related to the Epstein case.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s administrator of the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, emailed an invitation to a Valentine’s Day party in 2016 to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Reuters writes, referring to US Justice Department documents. Oz, formerly a celebrity physician on TV, sent the invite almost a decade after Epstein’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":234453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234467,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234466\/revisions\/234467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}