Tony Hawk is pushing back against a viral rumor claiming one of his weddings took place on Jeffrey Epstein’s private island. The professional skateboarder and entrepreneur addressed the allegation directly after his name surfaced in recently released Epstein-related documents. He called the claim false and easily disproven.
Tony Hawk slams Epstein island wedding misinformation
Facing online speculation, Tony Hawk took to his Instagram Stories on February 5 to definitively clear the air. In a detailed, all-caps post, he outlined the locations of all four of his weddings to directly counter the false narrative.
He began, “Here are the facts and timelines of my nuptials, and I apologize if they don’t fit a narrative of nonsense.” Hawk listed his 1990 wedding to Cindy Dunbar in Fallbrook, CA; his 1996 ceremony to Erin Lee in San Diego, CA; his 2006 wedding to Lhotse Merriam in Fiji; and his 2015 marriage to his current wife, Catherine Goodman, in Ireland.
Hawk explained how his 2006 Fiji destination wedding became tangled in the Epstein rumor. “One of the guests in 2006 shot photos of the Fiji ceremony and licensed them to Getty Images,” Hawk stated. “His name is [coincidentally] Mark Epstein,” he added. Hawk was quick to clarify about the photographer. He said he 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).”
Hawk ended his post by emphasizing, “This is all easily verifiable information. Facts are not fungible,” and apologized to the photographer for “the misinformation vortex.” The false claim appears to have originated from a mention in the recently unsealed Jeffrey Epstein documents.
A redacted FBI email from October 2024 references an alleged victim’s statement. It said that she “was there when Prince Edward was there and when Tony Hawk got married on the island.” This uncorroborated allegation, now publicly debunked by Hawk himself, fueled the online rumor.
