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Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking a sex club habitué?

A lurid tabloid report suggests world-renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, 70, regularly attends sex clubs.

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Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking a sex club habitué?

POSTED: Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 2:24 PM
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British scientist Stephen Hawking in his office at the University of Cambridge.

Tabloid site RadarOnline says astrophysicist Stephen Hawking frequents a California sex club, a venue where sexual things reportedly take place.

Radar cites anonymous sources who say the 70-year-old Hawking who runs the Institute for Theoretical Cosmology at Cambridge University and is considered to be the globe’s smartest dude, has been a member of Freedom Acres swingers club in Devore, Calif., for 50 years.

"I have seen Stephen Hawking at the club more than a handful of times," an unnamed club member tells Radar. “He arrives with an entourage of nurses and assistants.”

Hawking may need the nurses to help cope with his condition. He suffers from a neurological disorder known as motor neuron disease which has rendered him almost completely paralyzed.

Radar’s source says he saw Hawking in a most compromising position.

“Last time I saw him, he was in the back ‘play area’ lying on a bed fully clothed with two naked women gyrating all over him.”

Freedom Acres isn’t a (so-called) gentlemen’s club or strip joint. A nightclub which has a number of dance floors and bars, it reportedly also offers rooms where male and female “swingers” socialize and engage in consensual sexual acts.

“Freedom Acres is one of the most dynamic and largest on premise Swinger club in the Los Angeles and Orange County with an active member list of couples and single ladies and is growing weekly,” the club’s website says. “On the average, Russ and Aree, your host and hostess, introduce 30 to 60+ new couples … to this lifestyle.”

A Cambridge rep is shocked and appalled by Radar’s “lurid” and “exaggerated” report, though he admits there’s a grain of truth in it.

"It is not true Professor Hawking is a ‘regular’ visitor to the club in question,” Tim Holt tells the Cambridge News.

"This report is greatly exaggerated. He visited once a few years ago with friends while on a visit to California."

Hawking, a two-time divorcee who has three children, is no monk.

He was photographed visiting a London strip club in 2008.

Yes, we feel sleazy posting this, but we took an oath to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when it came the rich and famous.

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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:45 PM, 02/29/2012
    National Inquirer or Philadelphia Inquirer? You make the call.
    Another_1
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:45 PM, 02/29/2012
    philly.com feels sleazy posting this? BWAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...
    thats so funny i just peed a little...
    poorcarole
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:20 PM, 02/29/2012
    Good for him; it's not like he has a whole lot of opportunities to get close with the fairer sex.
    verve
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 7:24 PM, 02/29/2012
    None of our business. Period.
    hallux
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:56 PM, 02/29/2012
    So sad that this leaked, because here's the thing. The individual that leaked this info obviously attended the club. No other way to be there. In addition to that, ALL who enter the club sign a privacy agreement. That means what happens there stays there. Obviously, a club member hard up for cash selling a story to the rags. All I've got to say to them, You better run if anyone finds out who you are. Russ & Aree do their best to maintain peoples privacy. Someone will find out who you are one day. Wrongfully selfish act to report this to anyone. In addition, Maybe thats something that this writer should have checked out. But ohhh, that's right, this is a gossip rag anyway!!!
    tearose1210
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:35 PM, 02/29/2012
    He's allowed.
    Anne Arkey
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:36 PM, 02/29/2012
    Leave him alone.
    phillytwo
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:13 AM, 03/01/2012
    For Gods sake the man is almost completely paralyzed, what's he supposed to do for a little fun,It's not like he can pick up some chick in a bar. Leave the man alone or at least find someone who can fight back, the poor guy can't even talk!!!
    ease
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:11 AM, 03/01/2012
    Do they wrap his wheel chair with protective plastic? Gnarly! Damn, I'm so glad that I don't pay for this paper.
    bad joe s
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:00 PM, 03/01/2012
    No offense, but: eeeeewwwwwwww!
    cxd207
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:34 PM, 03/02/2012
    Robynk is right.Last time I looked this man was over 21 times 3 and then some.
    vrb1955
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:46 PM, 03/02/2012
    I'll never be able to say gravitational pull again without adding the word 'it' afterwards.
    bad joe s
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:14 AM, 03/05/2012
    SO what? is this anyone else's business? let the man have some fun for pete's sake, what else has he got? hes' entitled to a good old time too. good grief man.
    tulipwalk


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