Though iconic physicist Stephen Hawking has been dead for more than half a decade, he managed to bring a new meaning to the phrase “they see me rolling they hating” on Wednesday, after it was revealed late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein offered a reward to disprove claims that the scientist was involved in an “underage orgy” during a visit to his private island.



Months before Epstein’s first arrest in July 2006, Hawking and several other scientists headed down to the US Virgin Islands for a conference on gravity on the neighboring island of St. Thomas. Partially funded by the billionaire, who (allegedly) died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting his trial, Epstein invited Hawking and others to Little Saint James Island, where they enjoyed a barbeque and even took a trip underwater in a submarine the ex-banker reportedly outfitted to accommodate the scientist’s wheelchair.



Yet newly-released documents carry some alarming implications surrounding Hawking’s time on the island. In a 2015 email, the financier encouraged Maxwell to offer cash incentives to friends of alleged trafficking victim Virginia Giuffre who could disprove her explosive claims — including one purporting that Hawking got it on with a bunch of young girls.


“You can issue a reward to any of Virginia’s friends, acquaints, family that come forward and help prove her allegations are false,” he wrote in the unearthed message. “The strongest is the Clinton dinner, and the new version in the Virgin Islands that Stephen Hawking participated in an underage orgy.”


It is unclear whether Hawking, who died at age 76 in 2018, likely from complications of ALS, had actually participated in such an event, yet one thing is certain: You know things probably aren’t great if Jeffrey Epstein is trying to defend you.