What specific dates, locations, and descriptions did Giuffre provide about alleged encounters with Ehud Barak in depositions or affidavits?
Executive summary
Virginia Giuffre’s public filings and later memoir material have tied a “well‑known prime minister” to violent sexual encounters during her time with Jeffrey Epstein; multiple news reports and unsealed court papers have linked that descriptor to former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, which he has denied [1] [2] [3]. The publicly available record assembled in the sources reviewed does not produce a single unambiguous deposition line listing precise calendar dates and GPS‑style locations for each encounter with Barak; instead the record is a patchwork of affidavits, court filings, depositions, media summaries and later memoir excerpts that point to a small set of places and timeframes while leaving key specifics contested or sealed [2] [4] [5].
1. What Giuffre’s filings and media reports say she alleged — island encounter when she was 18 and a later plane/cabin episode
Multiple pieces of reporting and excerpts from Giuffre’s memoir describe a first alleged encounter with a “prime minister” on Jeffrey Epstein’s private island when Giuffre was 18 in 2002, and a subsequent violent episode aboard Epstein’s private plane in a cabin, where she says she feared further violence [6] [7] [8]. Those descriptions in media accounts and memoir excerpts portray the encounters as physically violent — including beatings, rape and choking — language that Giuffre used in her posthumous memoir and that reporters summarized from court material and manuscript excerpts [6] [7] [8].
2. How depositions and court filings named or pointed to Ehud Barak
Court records and legal filings from Giuffre’s litigation listed a roster of prominent people she alleged Epstein trafficked her to, and some media reporting and defense filings in related suits stated that Giuffre had identified a former Israeli prime minister — widely reported as Ehud Barak — among those men [2] [1]. News organizations and summaries of unsealed document batches reported that Giuffre’s 2015–2016 complaint materials and later unsealed filings included references interpreted by some parties and outlets as alleging encounters with Barak [2] [1].
3. What depositions say directly (and what they do not say in the public record provided here)
The sources provided do not include a verbatim deposition transcript in which Giuffre enumerates exact calendar dates and street‑level locations tied explicitly to the name “Ehud Barak.” Instead, the public record available in these reports is a combination of: references in litigation papers that list a “well‑known Prime Minister,” press reporting that interprets certain sealed or redacted filings as implicating Barak, and defense or third‑party counsel summaries that assert Giuffre named him [1] [2]. That means the precise contemporaneous dates and granular location details attributed to Barak in Giuffre’s sworn testimony are not presented in full in the sources supplied here [5] [2].
4. Contradictions, denials and evidentiary limits in the record
Ehud Barak has denied the allegations and acknowledged social and financial ties to Epstein while rejecting claims of sexual misconduct; other witnesses whose depositions are in the same document sets explicitly said they never met Barak, underscoring the patchwork nature of the public record [3] [5] [9]. Separately, some litigation between parties (for example over access to sealed records) and later joint stipulations and dismissals in related cases complicate what can be read as resolved fact versus allegation — Giuffre’s broader litigation history includes settlements and later stipulations that affected public access and the legal status of some claims [3].
5. Bottom line: what can be stated from the materials reviewed
The materials reviewed show Giuffre and her court filings/ memoir describing violent encounters with a “prime minister” — reported by multiple outlets and linked in court papers by some parties to Ehud Barak — including an alleged encounter on Epstein’s private island around 2002 and a later episode on Epstein’s plane in a cabin; however, the supplied sources do not contain an unsealed, explicit deposition transcript in which Giuffre gives a date‑by‑date, location‑by‑location account that pairs named calendar dates and coordinates directly with Barak’s name in a single, public sworn statement [6] [7] [1] [2]. Where alternative testimony or denials exist, those are recorded in the public reporting and legal filings cited above [5] [3].