Jeffrey Epstein allegedly offered money to disprove Stephen Hawking ‘orgy’ claim

A new detail about an alleged “underage orgy” involving Stephen Hawking has been revealed in bombshell Jeffrey Epstein court documents.

Jeffrey Epstein offered money to disprove a claim that Stephen Hawking participated in an “underage orgy”, it has been revealed.

Hawking’s name was mentioned in newly released court filings relating to the convicted paedophile.

The documents show that Jeffrey Epstein had emailed former lover Ghislaine Maxwell offering to pay money in order to disprove claims that the professor had participated in an underage orgy.

In an email dated January 12, 2015, the billionaire financier suggested that Virginia Giuffre – one of his alleged victims – had made the orgy claims involving the British physicist.

In the email, Epstein asks Maxwell to see if any of Ms Giuffre’s family or friends would come forward to “help prove” that her allegations were false, with the help of a “reward”.

Physicist Stephen Hawking’s name was brought up in the newly-released Epstein documents. Picture: AFP

“You can issue a reward to any of Virginia’s friends, acquaints, family that come forward and help prove her allegations are false,” he wrote.

“The strongest is the Clinton dinner, and the new version in the Virgin Islands that Stephen Hawking participated in an underage orgy.”

Photographs from 2006 show the famous physicist visiting Epstein’s infamous island Little St James during a conference. He was also pictured at a barbecue and on a submarine tour of the sea bed, according to The Telegraph.

Epstein reportedly funded the conference, which was held on the neighbouring island of St. Thomas in the Caribbean, and allegedly paid for the submarine to be modified for Professor Hawking, who had never been underwater before.

The Cambridge professor visited the island in March 2006, shortly before Epstein was charged by police in Palm Beach, Florida with unlawful sexual activity with a minor.

Hawking was one of 21 internationally-renowned scientists attending the Epstein-funded conference on gravity at the Ritz-Carlton hotel, The Telegraph reported.

Stephen Hawking pictured on Jeffrey Epstein's Island pic.twitter.com/Mla6FBXjpk

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There is no evidence to suggest Stephen Hawking participated in any wrongdoing.

The scientist is best known for his groundbreaking work on black holes.

Born in 1942, Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 1963, just before his 21st birthday.

He was confined to a wheelchair for most of his life and was fathered three children with his first wife Jane Wilde.

He died in 2018 aged 76.

Names of Epstein and Maxwell’s alleged victims, associates and alleged co-conspirators will continue to be made public as part of the document dump.

UPDATE: E-mail sent by Epstein details him asking Maxwell to find anyone that could help deny Stephen Hawking's involvement in an underage orgy. pic.twitter.com/xAbXbNpg54

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The list is expected to include people with close ties to Epstein, such as Microsoft founder Bill Gates and former Israeli PM Ehud Barak.

There is no suggestion that those named are accused of any criminal activity.

The new files will include emails, legal documents, depositions and more relating to Epstein and Maxwell.

Only Epstein and Maxwell have been charged over the alleged sexual abuse of dozens of young girls in his Upper East Side townhouse and his waterfront mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, between 2002 and 2005.

Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in 2019. Picture: AFP

Ms Giuffre filed a defamation lawsuit in 2015 which was settled – but some of those involved in the trial were identified in the ruling through links to interviews they had previously given.

Judge Preska cited this as a reason for why their identities should not remain sealed.

She ruled there was no legal justification for continuing to conceal the names of more than 150 “John and Jane Does” mentioned in the court filings relating to Epstein.

Media sued to have the documents made public and they have been released on a rolling basis since 2019.

Wednesday’s unsealing is the eighth and likely final release from the 2015 defamation case.

Epstein died by suicide in his Manhattan jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.

Originally published as Jeffrey Epstein allegedly offered money to disprove Stephen Hawking ‘orgy’ claim