Skateboarding icon Tony Hawk is pushing back hard against online claims tying his wedding history to the so-called Epstein Files, calling the rumor mill both inaccurate and easily disproven.
According to The New York Post, the speculation surfaced after newly released federal documents included a third-party tip that loosely referenced Hawk’s name in connection with a wedding on a private island.
Almost immediately, social media users began drawing false conclusions, suggesting Hawk had been married on the private Caribbean estate once owned by Jeffrey Epstein.
Hawk responded to this accusation directly, laying out a clear timeline.
“I apologize if they don’t fit a narrative of nonsense,” Hawk wrote on Instagram, before listing the verified locations of each of his four weddings.
According to Hawk, he was married in Fallbrook, California in 1990; San Diego in 1996; Fiji in 2006; and Ireland in 2015. None of those locations overlap with Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The confusion appears to stem from Hawk’s third wedding in 2006, which took place on Tavarua Island in Fiji. Online speculation attempted to link that ceremony to Epstein due to a shared surname in the photo credits.
Hawk addressed that directly, explaining that the photographer credited on Getty Images for the wedding photos is named Mark Epstein—but has no connection to the disgraced financier.
“One of the guests in 2006 shot photos of the Fiji ceremony and licensed them to Getty Images,” Hawk explained. “His name is (coincidentally) Mark Epstein.”
Hawk added that the photographer is an established action sports photographer based in Wyoming and is “in no way related” to Jeffrey Epstein.
Hawk emphasized that all of this information is public record and verifiable through basic factchecking. “Facts are not fungible,” he wrote, apologizing to the photographer for being pulled into what he described as an online misinformation spiral.
While Hawk’s name does appear a few times in the recently released Epstein-related documents, those references are not personal. Two mentions are tied to the 2010 video game Tony Hawk: Shred, not to any travel, events, or personal associations.