When sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein asked his madam and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell to offer a bounty for information that would discredit one of his most prominent accusers, he also , he also brought up rumors about two big names: former President Bill Clinton and Stephen Hawking. , famous physicist.
In an email from Mr. Epstein to Mr. Maxwell in 2015, the now-defunct child trafficker alleged that Hawking had carried out illegal activities on a private island and that Mr. Clinton had dinner there. He offered a reward for information disproving this.
”[Y]You can issue rewards to either [Virginia’s] friend, [acquaintances], [family] Please come forward and help prove that her claims are false,” Epstein wrote in a typo-filled letter on January 12, 2015.[T]he is the strongest [C]Linton Dinner, and new version [V]Iljin [I]blame it [Stephen] [H]wake up [participated] In underage orgies. ”
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Prominent British theoretical physicist Dr. Stephen Hawking was attending a conference on gravity held by the Epstein Foundation for 21 of the world's top physicists on the neighboring island of St. Thomas in March 2006. Enjoying a barbecue on Epstein's Caribbean island, Little St. James. (Tim Stewart News)
The photo shows that the scientist and author actually visited Epstein's island in 2006 during a conference attended by the world's leading physicists.
The meeting was held on St. Thomas, a larger landmass in the U.S. Virgin Islands northwest of Epstein's Little St. James, which critics and many locals have dubbed “pedophile island.” ” is called.
“We don’t have an agenda other than fun and physics, which is fun with a capital ‘F. ”
During the meeting, Epstein invited Hawking and other researchers to a barbecue at Little St. James. The photo also shows Hawking taking part in a boat tour and submarine diving.
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Prominent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking visited Jeffrey Epstein's Caribbean island, Little St. James, while attending a gravity conference on neighboring St. Thomas in March 2006. I was enjoying an undersea tour on a submarine off the coast. (Tim Stewart News)
A 2006 article in the St. Thomas Source, a U.S. Virgin Islands newspaper, said the conference included three Nobel laureates and that Mr. Epstein was the “driving force” behind its creation.
“There's no agenda other than fun and physics. That's fun with a capital 'F,'” Epstein told the paper.
Researchers met to discuss the question, “What is gravity?”
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Months after the meeting, Epstein was arrested on child sex charges and received a controversial lenient plea deal in 2008.
Hawking had a debilitating disease known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). passed away in 2018. He lived most of his adult life with a disease known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Although the disease left him paralyzed, it did not interfere with his research or writing.
Hawking, author of the best-selling “The History of Time'' and other books, once joked that the greatest mystery he had yet to solve was simple.
Screenshot of email exchange between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. (SDNY)
“Women are a total mystery,” he told New Scientist Magazine in 2012.
Epstein's newly revealed emails contained no evidence that Hawking actually engaged in any wrongdoing. Epstein was known to socialize with the wealthy, famous, and powerful, as well as elite academics and celebrities.
Hawking, a British citizen, received the Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2009. He has also been an early critic of artificial intelligence, warning more than a decade ago that such technology could mean “the end of humanity.”
Prominent British theoretical physicist Dr. Stephen Hawking spoke about Jeffrey Epstein's Caribbean island, Enjoying a boat cruise off the coast of Little St. James. (Tim Stewart News)
The emails first came to light on Wednesday in a 2015 lawsuit filed against Maxwell by alleged victim Virginia Giuffre, in which a federal court in New York sealed a trove of Epstein-related files. It was when I released it.
Epstein had relationships with numerous influential figures, from politicians to Hollywood stars, top academics, and many billionaires.
Jeffrey Epstein, Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 8, 2004. (Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images)
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Mr. Epstein was named dozens of times in the document and was linked to many prominent figures in politics, entertainment and academia, including Britain's Prince Andrew, who settled a lawsuit with Mr. Giuffre in 2022 without admitting wrongdoing. There was a connection.
Epstein and Maxwell were both convicted in separate sex trafficking cases.
Epstein died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on more serious federal charges. A lengthy FBI report calls his death a suicide, but created an environment that allowed him to die before “numerous victims, many of whom were underage girls,” had a chance to seek justice. It accused the Bureau of Prisons of negligence and misconduct.
