Get you up to speed: Women in Epstein files with Stephen Hawking identified as his carers in 2006

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Women seen with Stephen Hawking in Epstein files ‘are his carers’ | News World

Stephen Hawking smiles as he holds a cocktail in photos released in the Epstein files (Picture: Department of Justice)

The women Stephen Hawking was pictured lying on a deckchair and enjoying a cocktail with are his carers, it has been revealed.

The wheelchair-bound genius seems relaxed outside of the stuffy Oxford University lecture theatres with one of the women enlisted for his round-the-clock care, helping him hold a red tropical drink.

The theoretical physicist was on a Jeffrey Epstein-funded trip to the US Virgin Islands with a group of 21 other scientists and his two regular British carers in 2006.

Other images released by the Department of Justice show a red-haired woman leaning in to talk to the professor at a nighttime BBQ at Ritz Carlton Hotel, St Thomas where Professor Hawking gave a speech on Quantum Cosmology.

The resort is within eyesight of Little St James, Epstein’s private island.

A new picture shows Stephen Hawking among the guests at a barbecue during a conference sponsored by Epstein in March 2006

Another photo shows a blonde woman with an arm wrapped around Hawking on an underwater submarine that had been specially modified to take his wheelchair by the paedophile billionaire.

A spokesperson for the Hawking Family said: ‘Professor Hawking made some of the greatest contributions to physics in the 20th century while at the same time being the longest-known survivor of motor neurone disease, a debilitating condition which left him reliant on a ventilator, voice synthesiser, wheelchair and round-the-clock medical care.

‘Any insinuation of inappropriate conduct on his part is wrong and far-fetched in the extreme.’

Stephen Hawking pictured on Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Island of Sin’ (Picture: Department of Justice)

Epstein and Hawking are never pictured together, and the exact nature of their relationship is not revealed.

As links emerged, an email from David Grosof to Epstein appears to show the MIT professor telling Epstein to leak photos and say it was a ‘make-a-wish’ foundation dream of Hawking to go on a submarine.

He says: ‘If I were your PR person, I’d be preparing to release some photographs or video of Hawking going into the submarine in/near the USVI (2006, right?) and a story about a “conference organizer and science philanthropist” who asked him what he wanted to do that he hadn’t done yet, and then did the “Make-A-Wish” type magic of making it happen.

‘Then, especially if it goes viral, a follow-on story/a leak/a comment/ about how the organiser was you (or you and the rest of the conference team).

‘You did a good thing!’

It emerged Jeffrey Epstein had asked Ghislaine Maxwell how to disprove the allegation Professor Stephen Hawking participated in an underage orgy.

The disgraced paedophile sent an email to Maxwell in 2015 questioning whether they can ‘reward’ the friends of one of his victims, Virginia Giuffre, if they testify against her.

He wrote: ‘You can issue a reward to any of Virginia’s friends, acquaints, 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.’

At one point a redacted email address recommends the YouTube trailer to The Theory of Everything to Epstein – the life story of Hawking where he is played by Eddie Redmayne.

Who was Professor Stephen Hawking?

Court documents have revealed links between Professor Stephen Hawking and Jeffrey Epstein (Picture: Getty)

Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 in Oxford and he studied at St Albans in Hertfordshire.

His mother was a secretary at a medical institute, hailing from a family of doctors, and his father worked at the National Institute for Medical Research.

Both had gone to Oxford, and their intellect meant Hawking family life was very restrained, with meal times spent silently reading books at the table.

Stephen got a place at University College, Oxford, where the work failed to challenge him, but he began to flourish socially for the first time, and he coxed a boat crew in the rowing society.

Then he began his graduate work in cosmology at Cambridge and started work on black holes, with his first major thesis being approved in 1966.

He was known to challenge the theories of his contemporaries in cosmology during public meetings.

Who were Stephen Hawking’s wives and children?

Stephen began to fall in love with his sister’s friend Jane Wilde, who he had met in 1963 aged 21.

In the meantime, he grew closer to Jane. They got engaged in October 1964 and married in July 1965, with Stephen supporting himself with a stick at the wedding.

During their marriage, which lasted 30 years, they had three children – Robert, Lucy, and Tim.

By the end of the 1980s, Stephen – who spent a lot of time away from his wife due to his position in the science world – was growing attached to his nurse Elaine Mason.

Stephen divorced Jane in 1995, five years after departing the family home to live with Elaine.

Stephen Hawking was a world-renowned scientist (Picture: Roger Askew/Oxford Union/REX/Shutterstock)

The pair wed that same year, but in 2006 Hawking divorced Elaine, a few years after allegations of abuse were made against her by Lucy Hawking, who’d come to hear about her father’s numerous ‘unexplained injuries’.

Stephen then returned to a paternal role alongside Jane and his children after a decade of estrangement.

What was Stephen Hawking’s illness?

Stephen was diagnosed with motor neurone disease shortly after meeting Jane Wilde.

Doctors had initially given Stephen just two years to live, but although he became less and less able to speak and move around, his condition did not progress as fast as predicted.

He then developed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) – a neurological disorder that affects motor neurons that control voluntary muscle movement and breathing.

As motor neurons degenerate and die, they stop sending messages to the muscles to move, which in turn causes them to stop working and waste away.

Stephen pictured in 1979 (Picture: Santi Visalli/Getty Images)

Eventually, people with ALS are unable to control voluntary movements including walking, talking, chewing, and eventually breathing.

ALS is progressive, meaning it gets worse over time.

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