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On March 4, 2011, journalist Annette Witheridge of the Mail on Sunday sent press queries to Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer Brett D. Jaffe, listing 14 specific allegations from the Jane Doe 102 complaint. Two items specifically name Ehud Barak:
Item 5: "[Victim] was required to have sex with friends of Ms Maxwell and Mr Epstein, including Glenn Dubin, Les Wexner, Ehud Barak, former Senator George Mitchell and Stephen Kosslyn."
Item 12: "Ms Maxwell and Mr Epstein arranged for Ehud Barak to have sex with several girls, often at Mr Epstein's Palm Beach house."
These allegations were forwarded at least four times within hours:
v2.0 addition — HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023051: On April 17, 2019 — eight years after the original forwarding chain — Epstein re-forwarded this same email chain to Darren Indyke (his attorney, whose office is at 301 E. 66th St, 10B). This establishes that Epstein maintained awareness of and access to the victim allegations throughout the period and continued to share them with legal counsel.
The identical allegations appear in five separate documents because Epstein forwarded the press query to multiple parties and then re-forwarded to Indyke years later. Barak is named alongside Glenn Dubin, Les Wexner, George Mitchell, and Stephen Kosslyn — all of whom have denied involvement. The 2019 re-forwarding suggests either ongoing legal strategy or concern about the allegations resurfacing.
WHAT THIS SHOWS AND DOES NOT SHOW: The victim allegations as relayed through press queries name Barak in specific claims. These are from civil filings, not criminal charges. No criminal proceedings have been initiated against Barak. Barak has publicly denied the allegations.