According to court documents, pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein was willing to reward one of his victim’s friends if they could “prove her allegations false,” including that Professor Stephen Hawking participated in an underage orgy.
Following a US judge’s order last month, the names of more than 170 people who were either associates, friends, or victims of Epstein are set to be made public.
The first batch of documents was made public on Wednesday evening, with prominent figures such as the Duke of York and former US President Bill Clinton prominently featured.
Epstein’s email to disgraced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell revealed that he was happy for her to “issue a reward” to any of Virginia Giuffre’s friends to counter her claims, shortly after she filed a civil claim in the US in 2015.
Stephen Hawking allegedly participated in an underage orgy
The email read: “You can issue a reward to any of Virginia’s friends, acquaintances, 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, in which Stephen Hawking participated in an underage orgy.”
The transcript of the socialite’s videotaped evidence given under oath was also published as part of Ms. Giuffre’s civil claim against Maxwell.
During her deposition, Maxwell claimed she could only recall seeing Prince Andrew on Epstein’s island once.
After the uproar over his friendship with Epstein, Andrew stepped down from public life and paid millions to settle a civil sexual assault case with Ms. Giuffre, whom he claimed he had never met.
After Ms. Giuffre, who was trafficked by Epstein, accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17, the duke was kicked out of the working monarchy and no longer uses his HRH style.
