- Stephen Hawking's name came up in the newly unsealed Jeffrey Epstein documents.
- In a 2015 email, Epstein offered to pay people who could disprove an allegation that Hawking was part of an "underage orgy."
- But the documents don't actually have any allegations against Hawking.
There's been a lot of chatter about Stephen Hawking's name appearing in the newly unsealed Jeffrey Epstein documents — but has the renowned physicist actually been accused of anything?
Not according to the documents released so far.
A New York federal judge unsealed the names of about 170 of Epstein's associates in court documents that were publicly released on Wednesday — and the famed physicist's name shows up twice.
The most surprising time Hawking's name comes up is in an email Epstein sent to Ghislaine Maxwell in 2015.
In the typo-ridden email, Epstein tells Maxwell to offer to pay anyone for information disproving a purposed allegation from Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre that Stephen Hawking was part of an "underage orgy."
"you can issue a reward to any of virginias friends acquaionts family that come forward and help prove her allegations are false," Epstein writes in the email (with a clear disregard for proper grammar). "the strongest is the clinton dinner, and the new version in the virgin isalnds that stven hawking partica-ted in an underage orgy."
Hawking did once visit Epstein's private Caribbean island for a conference in 2006, months before the financier was first charged with child sex offenses, The Independent reported.
The Independent reported Hawking even got a ride on a specially customized submarine. But that's a far cry from an orgy.
Hawking and other theoretical physicists were attending a conference on gravity on a nearby island — a gathering that Epstein backrolled, the outlet reported.
Hawking hasn't been publicly accused of sexual misconduct involving Jeffrey Epstein. And the unsealed documents, from a civil lawsuit Giuffre filed against Maxwell in 2016, do not include any such allegations from Giuffre herself.
As for the Bill Clinton reference in that email, the documents reveal that a victim of Epstein testified in a deposition that the pedophile financier once remarked that the former president "likes them young."
But the documents also show that Giuffre denied ever flying to Epstein's private island with Clinton, contradicting media reports.
Hawking's name appears only one other time in the filing, in a list of people that Maxwell's attorneys are asking Giuffre if she has pictures of.
The Stephen Hawking Estate did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.
The (largely over-hyped) release is just the first batch of documents, with more expected to come out.
Hawking died in 2018 after a lifelong battle with ALS. Epstein died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial. Maxwell was sentenced in 2022 to 20 years in prison for trafficking minors.