{"id":500958,"date":"2026-02-25T18:48:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/stephen-hawkings-family-breaks-silence-on-photo-with-women-in-bikinis\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T18:50:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:50:32","slug":"stephen-hawkings-family-breaks-silence-on-photo-with-women-in-bikinis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/international\/stephen-hawkings-family-breaks-silence-on-photo-with-women-in-bikinis\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking's family breaks silence on photo with women in bikinis"},"content":{"rendered":"The family of the late British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking responded to the recent publication of a photograph of the scientist surrounded by <strong>two women in bikinis<\/strong> as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad.rt.com\/actualidad\/584786-departamento-justicia-publica-millones-archivos-epstein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">files<\/a> of the sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/breaking-stephen-hawkings-family-breaks-35297723\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> Mirror on Wednesday.\n\n\"Professor Hawking made some of the greatest contributions to 20th-century physics, while also being the longest-known survivor of motor neuron disease, a debilitating condition that left him dependent on a respirator, a voice synthesizer, a wheelchair, and 24-hour medical care. Any suggestion of inappropriate behavior on his part&nbsp;<strong>is wrong and extremely unlikely<\/strong>\", his family stated.&nbsp;\n\n\n<p><strong>You may be interested in: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/rd-nego-entrada-a-jeffrey-epstein\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"584281\">Declassified documents reveal DR denied entry to Jeffrey Epstein in 2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Stephen Hawking seen lounging between 2 bikini-clad women as scientist&#39;s ties to Epstein return to spotlight <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wkzJAj7dIe\">https:\/\/t.co\/wkzJAj7dIe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I2j2mVI4hG\">pic.twitter.com\/I2j2mVI4hG<\/a><\/p>&mdash; New York Post (@nypost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypost\/status\/2026640966514323844?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 25, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nIt is believed that the two women <strong>were his long-term caregivers.<\/strong>\n\nThe photo was taken in 2006 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in the U.S. Virgin Islands, during a conference on quantum cosmology organized by Epstein on his island Little St. James. Hawking, one of the 21 prominent scientists in attendance, also appears in another image at a barbecue and received an underwater tour adapted to his wheelchair. There are no photographs of <strong>Hawking and Epstein together<\/strong>.\n\nThe Cambridge professor is mentioned at least 250 times in the millions of emails and documents of the U.S. Department of Justice. However, his appearance <strong>does not imply any accusation of a crime<\/strong>.\n\nIn a 2015 email, Epstein offered a reward to refute an alleged accusation by Virginia Giuffre about a \"<strong>minor orgy<\/strong>\" in the Virgin Islands involving Hawking, but Giuffre never made it public. In addition, a notice to the FBI in 2019, also published, indicated that Epstein and Hawking attended a <strong>\"men only\" club<\/strong> together in 2011.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family of the late British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking responded to the recent publication of a photograph of the scientist surrounded by two women in bikinis as part of the files of the sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, reported Mirror on Wednesday. &#8220;Professor Hawking made some of the greatest contributions to 20th-century physics, while also being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[23354,27615],"class_list":{"0":"post-500958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-international","7":"tag-jeffrey-epstein","8":"tag-stephen-hawking"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500960,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500958\/revisions\/500960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}