Newly released U.S. Justice Department records indicate that former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and his wife stayed several times at a New York apartment owned by disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The documents, disclosed as part of the Justice Department's Epstein files, include email exchanges that provide additional details about the nature of the relationship between Barak and Epstein, which had been publicly acknowledged.
Earlier, the Justice Department released more than 3 million pages from the Epstein investigation; the documents mention U.S. President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Bill Clinton and other high-profile figures.
Barak has said he first met Epstein in 2003 and continued to maintain contact with him even after Epstein became a registered sex offender following a plea deal in 2008, CNN reported.
Email correspondence from May 2017 showed Priel informing Epstein that she and Barak would temporarily leave the apartment while traveling to Harvard University and requesting that cleaning be arranged during their absence. Epstein forwarded the request to another individual, who confirmed she would handle it the following day.
