Daily Mail defends story linking Israel’s Barak to Epstein

The Daily Mail defends its decision to publish photos of former prime minister Ehud Barak entering the mansion of disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein in 2016.

The US-based DailyMail.com says it stands by the story “100 percent.” (The article has not appeared in the main Daily Mail tabloid newspaper in Britain.)

Barak’s lawyers wrote to the Daily Mail on Wednesday demanding that it retract Tuesday’s story and pay “substantial damages to vindicate his reputation and compensate him.”

But the Mail says it “stands by its recent story concerning Ehud Barak’s relationship with the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein 100 percent… We note that Mr Barak’s assertion that he was not party to Mr Epstein’s illegal activities is a denial of a claim we have never made.”

— with AFP