JEFFREY Epstein’s friend joked that the paedophile deserved a “Nobel Prize for medical science” if Stephen Hawking raped underage girls on his island.
The sick quip came in an email exchange between the depraved financier and his pal Andrew Farkas over allegations that the Brit physicist had sex with children.
Professor Stephen Hawking was seen grinning from ear to ear as he sat sandwiched between two bikini-clad women in the Epstein filesCredit: Department of Justice
Epstein seen in an email exchange joking with a pal that he deserved a ‘Nobel Prize’ if Hawking had sex with children on his islandCredit: DOJ
Epstein explained to Farkas that the late Cambridge professor was being accused of having sex with underage girls on Little Saint James by local media.
The typo-ridden message from Epstein reads: “I kid you not , the local papers are suggesting that steven hawking had sex with underage girls on island. !! [sic]”
In response, Farkas, a US real estate mogul, says: “If it were true you’d received the Nobel Prize for medical science.”
Farkas is the billionaire founder of Island Capital, a New York-based merchant bank.
He has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
The emails were part of the latest batch of Epstein files released by the Department of Justice (DoJ) last month.
It comes after Hawking came under fresh fire as newly released images showed the renowned physicist alongside two bikini-clad women sipping on cocktails.
Hawking could be seen laying on a sun lounger holding a red drink on what appears to be a tropical island.
The context of the photo is unclear with the location or date unknown.
It had circulated online in the past but was featured in the latest cache of documents released by the DoJ.
Being mentioned in the files does not imply any wrongdoing.
Hawking, who died in 2018 aged 76, has been pictured on Little St James, often referred to as Epstein’s “Paedo Island”, in the past.
He was on a trip to the US Virgin Islands with a group of 21 scientists attending a conference in March 2006, which was funded by Epstein.
Prior to the Energy of Empty Space That Isn’t Zero event, Hawking was seen in two images on the notorious island.
One saw him at a barbecue with a number of other people with the second of Hawking being given a tour of the island’s seabed from the inside of a submarine.
Epstein had reportedly modified the underwater vessel so Hawking, who used a wheelchair because of his motor neurone disease, could go underwater.
Hawking pictured at a barbecue in 2006 in the Epstein filesCredit: Department of Justice
During the 2006 trip, Hawking was given a submarine tour of the seabed around Epstein’s islandCredit: Department of Justice
Hawking and Epstein’s relationship before and after the documented trip to the island is unclear with the pair not being pictured together at any point.
But Hawking was referenced over 250 times in the latest tranche of Epstein files released by the DoJ.
In January, a bombshell allegation was revealed within the documents against Hawking.
In an email, Epstein suggested Virginia Giuffre, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s teen accuser, had made claims about the British scientist and former US President Bill Clinton.
The email read: “You can issue a reward to any of Virginia’s friends, acquaints [sic], 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.”
Epstein pictured in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2004Credit: Getty
Cambridge Professor Stephen Hawking died in 2018Credit: PA:Press Association
A second claim against Hawking was also found which alleged he and Epstein visited an “all male” club together in 2011.
FBI officials received an unsubstantiated tip-off in 2019 claiming the pair were with “some Russian liaisons”, according to the files.
The revelations come after the release of three million files linked to Epstein last month.
It comes amid claims , in an apparent effort to keep material from investigators.
The convicted paedophile reportedly paid private detectives to remove equipment from his Florida mansion before a police raid and stash it in rented lock-ups across the country.
Financial records indicate Epstein leased at least six storage units over more than a decade, including facilities in Florida and New York.
Some payments reportedly continued until 2019, the year of his death.
Andrew Farkas appeared to joke with Epstein about HawkingCredit: Getty
An email Epstein sent Maxwell in 2015 referencing HawkingCredit: U.S. District Court, Southern District of New Yorkn
Search warrants reviewed by The Telegraph suggest US authorities never raided the external lockers, raising the possibility they may contain unseen evidence relating to Epstein and people in his orbit including Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Lord Mandelson.
On Tuesday, – as the billionaire issued a grovelling apology to staff over his ties to Epstein.
The Microsoft founder, 70, confessed to employees that he flew on a private jet with the paedophile financier and spent time with him in the US and abroad, according to the Wall Street Journal.
But he is also understood to have said: “I did nothing illicit. I saw nothing illicit.
“To be clear, I never spent any time with the victims, the women around him.”
There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing by Gates, and he has denied all wrongdoing over his connection with Epstein.
A drone view of Little St. James owned by the late financier Jeffrey EpsteinCredit: Reuters
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