Jeffrey Epstein was ready to offer a cash reward to prove that Professor Stephen Hawking did not participated in an underage orgy, newly released documents show.
In an email to Ghislane Maxwell, on January 12, 2015, Epstein asked her to see if any of Virginia Giuffre’s friends or family would come forward to help prove her allegations were false.
He then referenced the esteemed scientist’s visit to Epstein Island in 2006.
Epstein 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.”
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It is unclear why Hawking visited the island, or why Epstein’s motives for disproving his involvement in an orgy were.
The conference Hawking attended was reportedly funded by Epstein on the neighbouring island of St. Thomas, and the twisted financier was known to invite famous figures he admitted to enjoying his hospitality.
A 946-page trove of court documents from Giuffre’s 2015 lawsuit against Maxwell were unsealed on Wednesday night, six years after the case was settled.
Judge Loretta A. Preska unsealed over 170 names in a New York court, connected to the Jeffrey Epstein – Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking scandal.
Maxwell was the only person found guilty in 2021 of recruiting and grooming underage girls for Epstein to abuse between 1994 and 2004. She is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence.
In 2019, Epstein committed suicide while awaiting trial on related sex abuse charges.
The list includes victims of sexual abuse, witnesses from court cases, and former employees of Epstein.
Judge Loretta Preska ordered hundreds of files to be unsealed, including a 30-page summary of evidence from 2015 that is expected to reveal Maxwell’s email account.
Many records related to this lawsuit have been released publicly over the years, but the judge has now decided what could be revealed about certain individuals mentioned in the records.
She noted that in many cases, these individuals had already given media interviews or their names had been made public in various ways, including at Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial two years ago.
Preska decided that some parts of the records should stay private, including those naming people who were children when Epstein sexually abused them and had tried to keep their privacy.
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