Billionaire paedo Jeffrey Epstein‘s dream to enhance the human race – lay behind wild unsubstantiated rumours surrounding one of the world’s most famous scientists Stephen Hawking and an alleged ‘underage orgy’.

Sicko Epstein wanted to create ‘superhumans’ using AI and genetic engineering leading him to fund a scientific conference – to which Hawking was invited.

Just weeks after in 2006 the financier was charged by US cops over his twisted crimes – and later bizarre claims about the Brit professor – who was severely disabled – emerged in court documents. The late Cambridge professor Hawking was even pictured at a barbecue while at a conference at Epstein’s private Caribbean island.

But according to reports, Epstein was so worried about this rumour that he asked his ex-lover, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, to offer a reward for any evidence proving it false. And there’s no suggestion that any of the scientists were involved in wrongdoing.

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Epstein is said to have sought information from Virginia Giuffre’s friends, who was accusing him of sexual abuse and trafficking her to his famous pals at the time. The details of Epstein’s attempts to quash the rumour were revealed in a poorly written email from Epstein to Maxwell, which was made public by a New York judge’s order.

In the email sent to “Gmax” in January 2015, Epstein suggested offering a reward to anyone who could help disprove Giuffre’s allegations.

In particular he wrote that he wanted to debunk claims about a dinner with former US president Bill Clinton, and the rumour about Stephen Hawking participating in an underage orgy in the Virgin Islands.

At the time of the alleged orgy in 2006, the famed physicist was reliant on his wheelchair and voice synthesiser due to motor neurone disease, that he had been diagnosed with aged 21.

The Cambridge physicist attended a scientific conference funded by Epstein, which took place on St Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, just a month before Epstein faced police charges in Florida for illegal sexual activity with a minor.

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Furthermore, Hawking, one of the top minds in science, was accompanied by other leading physicists, cosmologists, and theorists, including three Nobel laureates.

During an intermission in the conference, Hawking was escorted to Epstein’s secluded island, Little St James.

There, he was seen at a barbecue, but this visit only gained attention in 2015 when court documents implicated Little St James as the venue for “orgies” involving Giuffre, “numerous other underage girls”, and Prince Andrew – something that Buckingham Palace has fervently denied.

Epstein, known for his peculiar fascination with science, had grand plans to enhance the human race via mass impregnation.

He pointed to a New York Times article published in 2019 which revealed Epstein’s interest in transhumanism, a concept focusing on advancing the human species through technologies such as genetic engineering and AI.

Epstein started openly discussing his plans in the early 2000s. He added that one scientist claimed that Epstein’s goal was to impregnate 20 women at a time at his Zorro Ranch in New Mexico.

Even after pleading guilty to soliciting a minor in 2008, his interest didn’t wane as he spent most of his prison sentence working at his scientific institute, the Florida Science Foundation.

There’s no suggestion that any of the scientists were involved in wrongdoing. Hawking passed away aged 76 in 2018.

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