This goes to System Shock's point that you can't presume that a person having been on the island means that the person was involved in Epstein's world of sexual activity - Hawking was indeed on Epstein's island once, he attended a conference of the world's top astrophysicists on the topic of gravity, on St. Thomas in 2006 . . . an event that Epstein himself funded (he was apparently a physics junkie despite having not scientific training beyond high school). Apparently, the conference, which featured Hawking, three Noble laureates, and a handful of other world-leading physicists, included a day on Epstein's island.