Oh yeah, he was there.

We know that Hawking was once pictured in several photographs during a visit to Epstein’s private Caribbean in early 2006, before the financier was first charged not long after in the same year. In the photographs, which emerged in 2015, the scientist can be seen at a barbecue on Little St James, taking a boat cruise and a submarine tour off the island’s sea bed.

Hawking was among 21 high-profile scientists attending a conference on gravity funded by Epstein at the Ritz-Carlton hotel on neighboring island St Thomas in March 2006. Other scientists attending the conference accepted Epstein’s offer to visit the now-infamous island, where Epstein is known to have taken underage girls for sex.

Newsweek