Jeffrey Epstein offered money to disprove Stephen Hawking ‘orgy’ allegation
Jeffrey Epstein told Ghislaine Maxwell she could offer money to Virginia Giuffre’s friends if they could “help prove” an allegation that Stephen Hawking participated in an “underage orgy” was false, newly released filings suggest.
In an email written in 2015, the financier suggested that Ms Giuffre had made claims involving the British physicist and the former US president Bill Clinton.
Epstein said the “strongest” claim was that Mr Clinton had dined on his private island, which the former president has adamantly denied.
The email read: “You can issue a reward to any of Virginia’s friends, acquaints, family that come forward and help prove her allegations are false.
“The strongest is the Clinton dinner, and the new version in the Virgin Islands that Stephen Hawking participated in an underage orgy.”
Hawking photographed on Epstein’s private island
In 2015 photographs emerged which showed Hawking was hosted on Epstein’s private Caribbean island before the billionaire was first charged in 2006.
Pictures showed Cambridge professor at a barbecue on Little St James and taking a boat cruise and submarine tour.
Hawking was one of 21 internationally-renowned scientists attending a conference on gravity in March 2006 which was funded by Epstein.
He died in 2018 aged 76, more than four decades after first being diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a condition which slowly paralysed him.