Was Tony Hawk’s wedding to Jeffrey Epstein on the island? The answer to the skateboarding legend’s world News

Tony Hawk has issued a detailed public denial following online speculation that one of his weddings took place on a private Caribbean island owned by Jeffrey Epstein following the release of a new tranche of US Justice Department documents. The 57-year-old skateboarding icon addressed the claims directly on Instagram after social media users seized on a third-party tip contained in the files and attempted to connect it to his personal life. Hawke said the allegation was “nonsense”, gave a verified timeline of his four marriages, and emphasised that he had never met Epstein or visited his island.

The details of how the claim emerged and the content of the documents are unclear.

This confusion stems from an FBI tip referenced in the recently released Epstein-related files. The document summarises a call to the FBI’s tip line, which was logged by a threat intake examiner at the National Threat Operations Center, involving an unnamed woman alleging that she was exploited as a minor and trafficked to multiple locations, including Little St James. Reiterating her allegations, the caller claimed she was on the island “when Prince Edward was there and when Tony Hawk got married on the island”. The document does not offer confirmation of that claim and makes it clear that it refers to the caller’s account. The presence of names in the files does not indicate wrongdoing, and many of the entries are unverified tips or statements from third parties. Hawke’s name appears three times in the document release. Two of those references are not related to travel or personal relationships but rather to email discussions about 2010s video games. Tony Hawk: Shredder. The remaining reference is the unverified allegation above, which Hawke says is patently false.

Hawke’s reaction: timeline, location and source of the mixture

Hawke responded via an Instagram Story before listing the locations of each of his weddings, writing, “I apologise if they don’t fit into the bullshit story.”

None of these locations overlap with Epstein’s former property in the US Virgin Islands. He said the speculation possibly arose from his third marriage in 2006, which took place on Fiji’s Tavarua Island. Photographs from that ceremony were later licensed to Getty Images, and the credited photographer on those photographs is Mark Epstein.

Hawke revealed that his 2006 wedding to Lhotse Mariam took place in Fiji, not on Epstein Island (Mark Epstein/Getty Images)

Hawk addressed that point explicitly: “One of the guests in 2006 took photographs of the Fiji ceremony and licensed them to Getty Images. His name (incidentally) is Mark Epstein.” He added that the photographer is “an accomplished action sports photographer from Wyoming” who is “not related in any way” to Jeffrey Epstein.

Photo Credit: @tonyhawk/Instagram

For context, Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, is a New York-based property developer; the confusion appears to have been caused by a shared surname. “This is all easily verifiable information,” Hawke wrote. “Facts are not changeable.” He apologised to the photographer for getting “caught up in a whirlpool of misinformation. “Hawke, a father of four and a household name beyond skateboarding, concluded by reiterating that he never visited Epstein Island and had no personal relationship with the late financier, underscoring that the claim circulating online collapses under basic fact-checking.