Tony Hawk is clearing the air on speculation that she married a convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epsteinthe private island
“Here are my nuptials facts and timelines,” the 57-year-old professional skateboarder wrote via his Instagram story on Thursday, February 5, per people. “And I apologize if they don’t fit a nonsense narrative.”
Hawk has been married four times and broke the timeline of his multiple life events. The athlete married the first wife Cindy Dunbar in Fallbrook, California in 1990. Three years after her divorce from Dunbar in 1993, Hawk married Erin Lee at the San Diego Hilton Hotel.
After her 2004 split from Lee, Hawk moved on Lhotse Merrim. The couple held their wedding ceremony on Tavarua Surf Island in Fiji in 2006. Following his 2011 divorce from Merriam, Hawk founded The One with his wife. Catherine Goodman. The couple married at Adare Manor in Ireland in 2015. None of the locations Hawk listed was Little Saint James, which was Epstein’s private estate in the US Virgin Islands.
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Hawk claimed the confusion came from one of the guests at his 2006 wedding to Merriam. One of the guests was allegedly a photographer named Mark Epstein. Jeffrey happens to have a brother named Mark, but Hawk claimed that his wedding guest is no relation to the late financier’s family. (Epstein killed himself at age 66 in August 2019 after being arrested on federal sex-trafficking charges. He previously pleaded guilty to procuring a child for prostitution and solicitation of a minor in 2008, and served 13 months in prison.)
“One of the guests in 2006 took pictures of the ceremony in Fiji and licensed them to Getty Images,” explained Hawk. “His name is (coincidentally) Mark Epstein. An accomplished action sports photographer from Wyoming and no relation to Jeffrey Epstein (whom I never met and whose island I never visited). This is all easily verifiable information. Facts are not fungible.”
Hawk concluded his message by apologizing to his friend Mark for “the vortex of misinformation.”
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After the US Department of Justice released Epstein’s files last month, rumors swirled that Hawk was involved after the skater was mentioned in an October 2024 email from an FBI agent. The officer was investigating a case of child trafficking.
The email said the victim claimed she was “taken from Ireland and taken to Jeffrey Epstein’s island when she was 13” and “was there when Prince Edward was there and when Tony Hawk got married on the island”.
Hawk wasn’t the only star abandoned name in the Epstein files. Many stars included Prince Andrew, JK Rowling, Bill Gates and more were mentioned in the legal documents. Gates, who previously spent time with Epstein while he was alive, broke his silence on his connection to the disgraced billionaire.
“Apparently Jeffrey wrote an email to himself. That email was never sent,” Gates, 70, told 9 News Australia on Wednesday, February 4. “The email is fake. I don’t know what he was thinking. Was he trying to attack me in some way? Every minute I spent with him, I regret it and apologize for what I did.”
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