Epstein Files Catch Former PM Barak in a Lie He Told a High Court

Trump's DOJ just blew up Jeffrey Epstein's most powerful foreign protector.

Now that protector is facing a criminal complaint – and a court he lied to six years ago.

Epstein Files Reveal Barak Lied to Israel's High Court Over Wexner Payments

Ehud Barak is a former Israeli prime minister, former Israeli defense minister, and a man who spent years swearing Epstein never paid him a dime.

He was lying.

Between 2004 and 2006, the Wexner Foundation – the philanthropic vehicle of billionaire Leslie Wexner, who made his fortune through Victoria's Secret – wired Barak $2.3 million, ostensibly for research he promised to write.

When Israel's Likud Party petitioned the High Court of Justice in 2020 to open a criminal probe into that payment, the foundation's attorney told the court Epstein played no role in approving it.

The court believed them.

It dismissed the petition.

Then Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

The DOJ released over 3 million pages in January 2026, and buried in those pages was an email chain that demolished the foundation's court testimony in a single scroll.

Epstein personally approved the $2.3 million transfer – the payment request went up through his attorney and landed on his desk, where he signed off – even though Barak had delivered only one of the two books he'd contracted to write.

A Likud lawmaker and the Israeli NGO LAVI filed an eight-page criminal complaint on March 1, alleging the foundation lied to the court in 2020 and that the funds themselves constitute a bribe to a public official.

Barak and Epstein: A 15-Year Relationship the Documents Expose

The deeper story here isn't the $2.3 million.

It's how long Barak managed to keep the full picture buried.

His ties to Epstein first surfaced publicly in 2019, when Barak launched a political comeback in Israel and tax records showed the Wexner Foundation payments.

His response at the time: Epstein never paid him or supported him.

The documents prove that wasn't true.

What the newly released files show is a 15-year relationship that ran straight through Epstein's 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor, continued while Epstein served prison time, and only ended when Epstein died in his Manhattan jail cell in 2019.

Barak and his wife used Epstein's New York apartment as a personal crash pad.

They visited Epstein's private island.

Epstein's staff coordinated their travel schedules, arranged a cable box upgrade in the apartment, and fielded requests from Barak family members for academic placements and medical referrals.

When Barak finally faced Israeli television in February, he apologized – saying he regretted ever meeting Epstein and claiming he hadn't known the full scope of his crimes.

What he didn't explain was why he kept using the man's apartment after the 2008 conviction.

Or why the foundation's attorney told a court in 2020 that Epstein had nothing to do with the payments when Epstein's own emails say otherwise.

What the Epstein DOJ Release Proved That Barak's Allies Tried to Bury

Trump's critics told you the Epstein files were a conspiracy theory.

They told you the calls for transparency were political theater.

What they really wanted was to keep those pages locked in a federal vault forever – because those pages are now exposing exactly how deep the protection networks ran.

A former Israeli prime minister took $2.3 million routed through a convicted pedophile's foundation, publicly denied it, used his apartment as a vacation suite for years afterward, and only started apologizing when an act of Congress made the evidence public.

Barak has not been charged with any crime.

His camp insists he did nothing illegal.

But Israeli police have now received an eight-page complaint, a Likud lawmaker's signature, and a stack of Epstein emails that contradict six years of public denials.

The court that dismissed the 2020 petition did so because it was told Epstein wasn't involved.

Now everyone can read the emails that prove he was.

Sources:

• Etgar Lefkovits, "Complaint Seeks Police Probe into Ehud Barak and Wexner Foundation," Jewish News Syndicate, March 17, 2026.
• Caroline Glick, "Ehud Barak's Web of Deception Over Epstein Ties Unravels," Jewish News Syndicate, March 13, 2026.
• Associated Press, "Israel's Barak Says He Regrets Knowing Epstein After Documents Detail Their Long Friendship," February 13, 2026.
• U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Files Document Release, January 30, 2026.