Truth behind the bikini-clad girls pictured with Stephen Hawking in Epstein information
The world-renowned British physicist was seen laying between two women with a huge smile as they hold up fruity-looking drinks in the snap, leading to wild speculation about its origin
The bikini-clad women pictured with Stephen Hawking have been identified
The two bikini-clad women pictured sipping cocktails with Professor Stephen Hawking have been identified after the photo appeared in the Epstein files.
Monica Guy and Nicola O’Brien were his full-time carers and the photo of them flanking the late boffin while sipping fruit-inspired drinks was unearthed in the latest tranche of documents relating to dead paedo Jeffrey Epstein made public by the US government.
But despite wild online speculation, it has emerged the original, unredacted copy of the photo was taken at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Orlando, Florida, in 2007 and was used by Monica in blog praising how wheelchair-friendly US hotels are.
Exactly how it ended up in the Epstein files remains unexplained as no context was given by US lawmakers who released millions of documents from the disgraced financier’s estate.
A representative of the Hawking family estate previously confirmed that the women were his full-time carers. And Monica, now a PR executive, wrote of her travels alongside the renowned astrophysicist, the Daily Mirror reports.
The photo was published in a blog she wrote disabled access in which she said: “The USA leads the way in terms of accessible hotels. That’s the conclusion I’ve come to after several years spent travelling around with Stephen Hawking.
“We’ve stayed in top and not-so-top hotels in cities all over the world. In the US it is considered absolutely normal to be disabled and the right of a disabled person to access the same hotel facilities as everyone else is uncontested.”
Hawking, who lived with a rare form of motor neurone disease (MND) for more than 50 years, was among 21 internationally renowned scientists who attended a conference hosted by Epstein on the island and the nearby St Thomas in 2006.
It had previously been speculated the photo had been taken during that trip, but that myth has now been debunked.
The party-loving physicist, who died aged 76 in 2018, was said “to like pretty girls” by his own mother during a BBC interview to celebrate his 60th birthday. And MND does not directly affect libido or sexual function, in case you were wondering.
Hawking was married twice and fathered three children and had an affair with one of his nursing team 40 years his junior which nearly led to a third marriage.
And in the decade or so before his death in 2018 aged 76, he was a regular at Stringfellows lap dancing club in London’s West End, with his nurses in tow, and frequented a Californian sex club when he was 70.
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.”
The New York Times reported that Epstein was fixated on ‘transhumanism’, a belief that the human species can be deliberately advanced through artificial technological breakthroughs such as genetic engineering and artificial intelligence.
His desire develop an improved super-race of humans saw him court top scientists like Hawking and he often held dinners, lunches and conferences.
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