An image from Epstein’s files shows Stephen Hawking with two women in bikinis: “They were his caregivers”

Hawking’s family clarified to the tabloid that the two women accompanying him in the image, taken twenty years ago at the Ritz-Carlton hotel on the Caribbean island of Saint Thomas, very close to Little Saint James, the New York tycoon’s private island, were “his long-term caregivers from the United Kingdom.”

The family also maintains that Hawking had given a speech on quantum cosmology that day at a scientific symposium organized by Epstein himself under the title The Energy of Empty Space That Isn’t Zeroattended by around twenty renowned scientists.

“Professor Hawking made some of the greatest contributions to physics of the 20th century while also being the longest survivor of motor neurone disease, a debilitating condition that left him dependent on a ventilator, a speech synthesizer, a wheelchair and constant medical care,” a family spokeswoman said. “Any suggestion of inappropriate conduct on his part is erroneous and extremely absurd.”

His entourage did not explain, however, who took the image or how it ended up in Epstein’s files. It is not the first time that Hawking, who died in March 2018 at the age of 76, orbits around the pedophile.

The physicist already appeared in another photograph at a barbecue broadcast in 2015, and a year later, the pedophile offered him a submarine dive on the seabed around his private island. Epstein then modified the submarine expressly so that Hawking’s chair would fit.

The scientist’s name is mentioned at least 250 times in Epstein’s files, but there is no indication that he committed any crime. Although an email sent from the pedophile’s account explains how to debunk the allegation of Virginia Giuffreone of his victims, that Hawking participated in an orgy with minors.

“You can offer a reward to any of Virginia’s friends, acquaintances or relatives who come forward and help prove that her allegations are false. The most compelling is the dinner with Clinton and the new version in the Virgin Islands according to which Stephen Hawking participated in an orgy with minors,” the email states.

Gates and Summers, singled out

Other names that appear in Epstein’s papers are those of the tycoon Bill Gates and of Larry Summersformer United States Secretary of the Treasury during the second term of Bill Clintonanother of the figures punished for his close friendship with the pedophile.

Gates himself apologized this Wednesday during a meeting with the staff of his charity. The 70-year-old co-founder of Microsoft “took responsibility for his actions” and “spoke frankly and responded in detail to several questions,” according to the statement from his foundation.

The tycoon reaffirmed, however, his innocence. “I didn’t spend time with the victims, the women who surrounded him,” he stressed. “I didn’t do anything illegal. I didn’t see anything illegal.”

Summers, for his part, resigned this Wednesday from the positions he held at Harvard. The Ivy League university confirmed that the former Treasury secretary had ceased to be co-director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, and anticipated his retirement.