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The Onion Made an Absolutely Unhinged Jeffrey Epstein Mockumentary

Manisha Krishnan

created: Sept. 25, 2025, 10 a.m. | updated: Sept. 27, 2025, 2:18 p.m.

Now the site is taking on one of the most taboo subjects of all—disgraced sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein—in mockumentary form. Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile is a 20-minute satire that’s half biopic, half true crime, and 100 percent dumb (complimentary). Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile is a 20-minute mockumentary that launches in select theaters on October 2. Onion CEO Ben Collins says his writers decided to go big on Epstein once Donald Trump started acting “dodgy” when fielding questions about Epstein this summer. But I’ll probably be fine.”From there, Bad Pedophile skewers all the standard true-crime tropes.

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