Tony Hawk hits out at ‘narrative of nonsense’ that he got married on Epstein’s island

Skateboarding star denied that any of his weddings were held on the convicted sex offender’s private island despite being named in the latest files released by the DOJ

Tony Hawk is setting the record straight, emphatically denying that he held any of his weddings on Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous island after his name appeared in the latest batch of files released by the U.S. Department of Justice related to the late convicted pedophile.

The skateboarding legend, 57, was mentioned in an October 22, 2024, email by a special agent working as a Threat Intake Examiner reporting on an alleged case of human trafficking of a minor involving Epstein. “They would have sex with the young women and she was taken from Ireland and brought to Jeffrey Epstein Island when she was 13 years old,” the email read. “[Redacted] said that she was there when Prince Edward was there and when Tony Hawk got married on the island.”

On Thursday, Hawk denied the claims in an Instagram Story, instead sharing the “facts and timelines of my nuptials.” “I apologize if they don’t fit a narrative of nonsense,” he wrote.

The athlete, who has been married four times, said his first wedding to Cindy Dunbar in 1990 was held “at home” in Fallbrook, California. His second marriage, to Erin Lee in 1996, took place at a Hilton hotel in San Diego, followed by his third wedding in 2006 to Lhotse Merriam on Tavarua Surf Island in Fiji, and his fourth marriage to his wife, Cathy Goodman, in 2015 at Adare Manor in Ireland.

“One of the guests in 2006 shot photos of the Fiji ceremony and licensed them to Getty Images. His name is [coincidentally] Mark Epstein,” he added. Jeffrey’s younger brother, now 71, is also named Mark Epstein. Hawk, however, insisted that his associate is “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.”

Skateboarding star Tony Hawk (left) called claims he got married on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's island 'nonsense' (Getty)

Hawk apologized to his 2006 wedding photographer, Mark Epstein, for also getting 'pulled into the misinformation vortex' (tonyhawk/Instagram)

“Sorry you also got pulled into the misinformation vortex,” Hawk concluded, tagging his associate’s photography accounts.

Epstein died by suicide in August 2019, aged 66, while he was awaiting trial on federal charges of sex trafficking involving dozens of underage girls as young as 14, from at least 2002 to 2005. He had been arrested the month prior and pleaded not guilty.

In the years since his death, survivors have spoken out, pleading alongside lawmakers and the public for the release of the DOJ’s full investigation into Epstein.

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