Stephen Hawking pictured in Epstein information with bikini-clad girls sipping cocktails | EUROtoday

{A photograph} of the late scientist Stephen Hawking stress-free on a solar lounger beside bikini-clad girls has been revealed within the Epstein information.

The world-renowned British theoretical physicist is seen reclining within the undated image, with a cocktail positioned in his hand.

The drink is steadied by one of many two girls. It’s understood they have been his long-term UK carers, since he wanted round the clock care.

Professor Hawking, whose pioneering work on black holes and basic relativity within the universe revolutionised fashionable cosmology, died in 2018, aged 76, after dwelling with motor neurone illness for greater than 55 years.

The {photograph}, included in paperwork launched by the US Department of Justice because it investigates intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, was taken in 2006 throughout a science symposium on the Ritz Carlton Hotel, St Thomas, within the US Virgin Islands, the place Professor Hawking gave a speech on quantum cosmology.

Prof Hawking’s identify seems a whole lot occasions within the Epstein information, though merely being recognized within the paperwork doesn’t point out any wrongdoing.

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Prof Hawking has beforehand been seen in pictures taken on Epstein’s Caribbean island, though no photos of him and the convicted paedophile collectively are identified to exist.

He was amongst 21 scientists who visited St Thomas and Epstein’s 75-acre personal island, Little Saint James, for a science occasion.

According to the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation, in 2012 visitors met to “discuss, relax on the beach, and take a trip to the nearby private island retreat” through the occasion “to determine what the consensus is, if any, for defining gravity”.

Two years in the past, courtroom paperwork revealed that Epstein advised his confederate Ghislaine Maxwell she might supply a monetary reward to buddies of his accuser Virginia Giuffre if they might “help prove” an obvious allegation Hawking had engaged in an “underage orgy” was false.

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{A photograph} launched in 2015 confirmed Prof Hawking in his wheelchair at an out of doors dinner on Little Saint James with a number of different individuals.

Another image reveals the cosmologist in a submarine, having a tour of the island’s seabed.

Epstein had reportedly modified the underwater vessel to permit Prof Hawking to get into it.

A spokesperson for the Hawking household stated: “Professor Hawking made some of the greatest contributions to physics in the 20th century, while at the same time being the longest-known survivor of motor neurone disease, a debilitating condition which left him reliant on a ventilator, voice synthesiser, wheelchair and round-the-clock medical care. Any insinuation of inappropriate conduct on his part is wrong and far-fetched in the extreme.”

This article was amended on 25 February 2026 to incorporate the assertion from the spokesperson for the Hawking household.