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Professor Stephen Hawking has been pictured with two bikini-clad women in a newly uncovered photograph included in the Epstein files.
The groundbreaking British astrophysicist and cosmologist, who died in 2018 at the age of 76, is seen smiling in the image released among millions of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by the United States Department of Justice this month.
No details are provided about the date or location of the photograph, although many of the images released alongside it appear to have been taken on Epstein’s private island, Little Saint James, in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Hawking is known to have visited the island in March 2006 as one of 21 prominent scientists attending a five-day physics conference focused on gravity. At the time of the visit, Epstein had not been charged with any sexual offences.
Photographs that emerged in 2015 showed the celebrated physicist attending a barbecue in his wheelchair during the trip. He was also reportedly taken on a submarine tour of the seabed around the island.
Hawking is referenced at least 250 times in the Epstein files. However, being mentioned in the documents does not amount to an accusation of wrongdoing, and he was never charged with or accused of any crime.
His name appears in a 2015 email sent by Epstein to his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, in which Epstein suggested offering a financial reward to friends or family of Virginia Giuffre who could help disprove her allegation that Hawking had participated in an “underage orgy” in the Virgin Islands.
In the email, Epstein wrote: “You can issue a reward to any of Virginia’s friends, acquaintances [sic], or 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.”
Giuffre, who also accused Prince Andrew — born Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor — of sexual abuse, died by suicide in 2025.
