Jeffrey Epstein: Paedophile offered reward to disprove claims Stephen Hawking took part in orgy

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Jeffrey Epstein advised his confederate Ghislaine Maxwell she may provide a monetary reward to associates of his accuser Virginia Giuffre if they may assist show her allegation Stephen Hawking had engaged in an underage orgy was false.

Newly launched court docket paperwork reveal that the paedophile financier had despatched an e mail in 2015 exhibiting that he was blissful to challenge a reward to counter her claims, shortly after Ms Guiffre filed a civil declare in the US.

Sent to disgraced British socialite Ms Maxwell, he mentioned: “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.”

The Cambridge professor had beforehand visited Epstein’s personal Caribbean island in 2006 as part of a convention funded by the billionaire, with footage exhibiting him at a barbecue on Little St James. This occurred months earlier than Epstein was first charged with youngster intercourse offences, which included procuring a minor for prostitution.

Professor Hawking, who died in 2018 aged 76, is considered one of greater than 170 individuals who have been named after a US choose ordered that paperwork relating to Epstein could possibly be made public.

The first tranche of paperwork was launched on Wednesday night with high-profile figures such because the Duke of York and former US President Bill Clinton that includes closely.

Also revealed among the many court docket paperwork as part of Ms Giuffre’s civil declare in opposition to Maxwell was the transcript of the socialite’s videotaped proof given below oath.

During her interview, recognized in the US as a deposition, Maxwell claimed she may solely recall Prince Andrew on Epstein’s island as soon as.

Andrew stepped down from public life after the furore over his friendship with Epstein and paid tens of millions to settle a civil sexual assault case to Ms Giuffre, a lady he claimed by no means to have met.

The duke was solid out of the working monarchy and now not makes use of his HRH type after Ms Giuffre, who was trafficked by Epstein, accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17. He strenuously denies any wrongdoing.

Asked whether or not any women below the age of 18 had been current on that one event, Maxwell replied: “There were no girls on the island at all. No girls, no women, other than the staff who work at the house.

“Girls meaning, I assume you are asking underage, but there was nobody female outside of the cooks and the cleaners.”

In different paperwork, Maxwell could possibly be seen sending an e mail in January 2015, shortly after a civil declare had been filed in opposition to her, in which she described herself as “out of my depth”.

She added: “I have already suffered such a terrible and painful loss over the last few days that I can’t even see what life after press hell even looks like – statements that don’t address all just lead to more questions… what is my relationship to Clinton? Andrew on and on.”

One website the place the paperwork had been being launched on Wednesday night crashed inside minutes, warning that the server could be overloaded – prompting a tweet from Ms Giuffre which learn: “We broke the website”.

The deposition of a lady named Johanna Sjoberg was additionally revealed as part of the paperwork.

She beforehand claimed Andrew touched her breast whereas sitting on a sofa contained in the US billionaire’s Manhattan condominium in 2001, whereas giving testimony in May 2016.

The incident is alleged to have taken place when Ms Giuffre and Ms Sjoberg, had been at Epstein’s home off Fifth Avenue in New York.

Ms Sjoberg’s deposition made reference to a puppet being positioned on Ms Giuffre’s breast on the identical time – believed to be Andrew’s Spitting Image puppet.

Buckingham Palace beforehand mentioned the allegations are “categorically untrue”.

During the identical interview, Ms Sjoberg additionally mentioned Epstein had advised her that former President Bill Clinton “likes them young, referring to girls”.

Ms Sjoberg mentioned: “I knew he had dealings with Bill Clinton. I did not know they were friends until I read the Vanity Fair article about them going to Africa together.”

Asked if Epstein had ever talked in regards to the former president, Ms Sjoberg mentioned: “He said one time that Clinton likes them young, referring to girls.”

In 2019, Mr Clinton’s spokesman mentioned he knew “nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to” and that the pair had not spoken “in over a decade”.

The spokesman additionally mentioned Mr Clinton had by no means been to Epstein’s island, referred to as Little St James, his ranch in New Mexico nor his home in Florida.

Another former US president, Donald Trump, additionally featured in Ms Sjoberg’s deposition after she mentioned Epstein had referred to as him and visited considered one of his casinos due to his personal airplane being diverted.

Ms Sjoberg mentioned: “Jeffrey said, ‘Great, we’ll call up Trump and we’ll go to… I don’t recall the name of the casino, but… we’ll go to the casino.”

Epstein was discovered lifeless in his cell at a federal jail in Manhattan in August 2019 whereas he awaited trial on intercourse trafficking expenses, together with his dying dominated a suicide.

Maxwell has been imprisoned since July 2020, regardless of quite a few makes an attempt from her defence counsel to have her launched on bail.

She was sentenced to 20 years in jail on the federal court docket in the Southern District of New York in June 2022.

The socialite indicated her need to enchantment shortly after her conviction together with her attorneys claiming victims had “faded, distorted and motivated memories”.

Her enchantment is at the moment scheduled to be heard in November subsequent 12 months.