Stephen Hawking is pictured lying on a deckchair, enjoying a cocktail with two bikini-clad women in the latest Epstein file release.
One of the smartest men the world has ever seen seems relaxed out of the stuffy Oxford University lecture theatres with one of the women helping him hold a red tropical drink.
The theoretical physicist was on a Jeffrey Epstein funded trip to the US Virgin Islands with a group of 21 other scientists in 2006.
Other images show a red-haired woman leaning in to talk to the professor at a nighttime BBQ at an unnamed resort.
Another shows a blonde woman with an arm wrapped around Hawking on an underwater submarine that had been specially modified to take his wheelchair by the paedophile billionaire.
Epstein and Hawking are never pictured together, and the exact nature of their relationship is not revealed.
As links emerged, an email from David Grosof to Epstein appears to show the MIT professor telling Epstein to leak photos and say it was a ‘make-a-wish’ foundation dream of Hawking to go on a submarine.
He says: ‘If I were your PR person, I’d be preparing to release some photographs or video of Hawking going into the submarine in/near the USVI (2006, right?) and a story about a “conference organizer and science philanthropist” who asked him what he wanted to do that he hadn’t done yet, and then did the “Make-A-Wish” type magic of making it happen.
‘Then, especially if it goes viral, a follow-on story/a leak/a comment/ about how the organiser was you (or you and the rest of the conference team).
‘You did a good thing!’
It emerged Jeffrey Epstein had asked Ghislaine Maxwell how to disprove the allegation Professor Stephen Hawking participated in an underage orgy.
The disgraced paedophile sent an email to Maxwell in 2015 questioning whether they can ‘reward’ the friends of one of his victims, Virginia Giuffre, if they testify against her.
He wrote: ‘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.’
At one point a redacted email address recommends the YouTube trailer to The Theory of Everything to Epstein – the life story of Hawking where he is played by Eddie Redmayne.
Who was Professor Stephen Hawking?
Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 in Oxford and he studied at St Albans in Hertfordshire.
His mother was a secretary at a medical institute, hailing from a family of doctors, and his father worked at the National Institute for Medical Research.
Both had gone to Oxford, and their intellect meant Hawking family life was very restrained, with meal times spent silently reading books at the table.
Stephen got a place at University College, Oxford, where the work failed to challenge him, but he began to flourish socially for the first time, and he coxed a boat crew in the rowing society.
Then he began his graduate work in cosmology at Cambridge and started work on black holes, with his first major thesis being approved in 1966.
He was known to challenge the theories of his contemporaries in cosmology during public meetings.
Who were Stephen Hawking’s wives and children?
Stephen began to fall in love with his sister’s friend Jane Wilde, who he had met in 1963 aged 21.
In the meantime, he grew closer to Jane. They got engaged in October 1964 and married in July 1965, with Stephen supporting himself with a stick at the wedding.
During their marriage, which lasted 30 years, they had three children – Robert, Lucy, and Tim.
By the end of the 1980s, Stephen – who spent a lot of time away from his wife due to his position in the science world – was growing attached to his nurse Elaine Mason.
Stephen divorced Jane in 1995, five years after departing the family home to live with Elaine.
The pair wed that same year, but in 2006 Hawking divorced Elaine, a few years after allegations of abuse were made against her by Lucy Hawking, who’d come to hear about her father’s numerous ‘unexplained injuries’.
Stephen then returned to a paternal role alongside Jane and his children after a decade of estrangement.
What was Stephen Hawking’s illness?
Stephen was diagnosed with motor neurone disease shortly after meeting Jane Wilde.
Doctors had initially given Stephen just two years to live, but although he became less and less able to speak and move around, his condition did not progress as fast as predicted.
He then developed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) – a neurological disorder that affects motor neurons that control voluntary muscle movement and breathing.
As motor neurons degenerate and die, they stop sending messages to the muscles to move, which in turn causes them to stop working and waste away.
Eventually, people with ALS are unable to control voluntary movements including walking, talking, chewing, and eventually breathing.
ALS is progressive, meaning it gets worse over time.