Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Hawking gets divorce

UK news about famous astrophysicist Stephen Hawking:
"She is the reason I left. It's the reason everyone leaves. It's impossible to reconcile the way she treated Stephen with the ethics of our profession. I don't want to say anymore because it brings back painful memories."

It is a sentiment shared by almost all Prof Hawking's friends and family; relief that he is now finally free of Elaine, and distress that it has taken so long; the couple have been together for 17 years.

It is a relationship that, almost from the beginning, has provoked a storm of controversy - and suspicion - the wheelchair-bound Prof Hawking, 64, who has suffered from motor neurone disease since the age of 22, and the "controlling, manipulative and bullying" (the words of another former employee) Elaine.

Because for years there have been shocking rumours of violence and abuse against the vulnerable scientist - mental as well as physical - supported by his own children no less.
Elaine is expected to walk away with millions of dollars.

1 comment:

Dawn said...

I haven't been able to find any new info on Elaine Hawking. Did she get away with the abuse and received a big alimony check? If she really did abuse Stephen Hawking she deserves to be in jail with no financial reward.