THE MENTION OF skateboarding legend Tony Hawk’s name in a document contained in the latest release of files from investigations into Jeffrey Epstein led to numerous claims online that he got married on the sex offender’s private island.

One document among the millions released by the US Department of Justice on 30 January is a report from an interview conducted by an FBI agent with an alleged victim of Epstein. 

A summary of the claims made by the person, who said she was first trafficked at the age of five and later raped when she was aged 12-13, reports her saying she was present on Epstein’s private Caribbean island, Little Saint James, “when Tony Hawk got married on the island”. 

The report also says the alleged victim “said the only way to get off the island was to take naked photos or pose”.

The mention of Tony Hawk’s wedding prompted many people across multiple social media platforms to amplify the claim, which is false. 

“FFS even Tony Hawk was married on the island!!!” one Facebook post from 6 February reads. 

“Eww. Everyone from our childhood are pedos. It’s gross!” reads another post from 5 February. 

Despite the claim made to the FBI agent, Hawk did not get married on Little Saint James. 

Hawk has been married four times. 

His first wedding was in Fallbrook, California in 1990 and his second was in San Diego, California in 1996. Epstein purchased Little Saint James in 1998.

Hawk was then married in Fiji in 2006 and again in Adare Manor in Co Limerick, Ireland in 2015.  

Some posts that amplified the false claim that Hawk was married on Epstein’s island included photographs of one of Hawk’s actual weddings, at which the band Rancid performed. 

The photos actually show Hawk’s wedding on the Fijian island of Tavaru in 2006.

Hawk felt the need to set out the facts about his weddings in order to counter what he called a “narrative of nonsense”. 

A screenshot of Tony Hawk's statement about his weddings The Journal The Journal

In his statement posted on Instagram on 5 February, Hawk listed the times and locations of his weddings and said:

“One of the guests in 2006 shot photos of the Fiji ceremony and licensed them to Getty Images. 

“His name is [coincidentally] Mark Epstein, an accomplished action sports photographer from Wyoming and of no relation to Jeffrey Epstein (who I never met and whose island I never visited).

“This is all easily verifiable information. Facts are not fungible.” 

He also said he was sorry that Mark Epstein “got pulled into the misinformation vortex”. 

The photos of Hawk’s wedding in Fiji can be viewed on Getty Images’ website here.  

Apart from the FBI report, the name Tony Hawk only appears in one other document in the Epstein files: a mention of the video game ‘Tony Hawk Shred’.  

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