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Barak said that over the years of meeting with Epstein at his various mansions, he “never participated in any party or any other ‘inappropriate’ event with him” and had “never met him with girls or minors, not even with adult women in the context of any inappropriate behavior.”
The former premier said he first met Epstein in 2003 at an event attended by “American dignitaries” through the late Israeli president and statesman Shimon Peres. The two arranged to meet at a later time in New York. “I came to his house quite a few times with my wife,” Barak claimed, adding that he had met many “interesting people” at Epstein’s homes.
One of those meetings between Epstein and Barak included Chomsky, to discuss “Israel’s policies with regard to Palestinian issues and the international arena,” Chomsky told the WSJ on Tuesday.
Epstein’s calendar also featured other meetings with Barak, such as one that also included an executive at the consulting firm of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
Both Chomsky and Botstein also defended their decision to continue meeting with Epstein after his first sex trafficking convictions, with Chomsky saying that Epstein’s prison time indicated a “clean slate” and Botstein invoking Bard’s history of supporting prison rehabilitation programs.
According to the reports, Epstein also had more than a dozen meetings with Ariane de Rothschild, the chief executive of the Rothschild Group of Swiss Jewish bankers, who had married into the family and was the firm’s chair at the time. De Rothschild herself is not Jewish, but the family has been a prime target of antisemitic conspiracy theories for decades.
