Epstein didn't kill himself

"Epstein didn't kill himself" is a meme referring to multiple conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Jeffrey Epstein that dispute the official ruling of suicide by hanging. Jeffrey Epstein was an American financier and convicted sex offender with connections to powerful and wealthy people, and his reported suicide led to numerous hypotheses about the nature and cause of his death. The phrase became a colloquialism as well as an internet meme, gaining traction in November 2019 as more of the circumstances around his death became public. The most common theory asserts that the true cause of his death was homicide, via strangulation, arranged by one or more co-conspirators to prevent him from revealing any compromising information.

The phrase "Epstein didn't kill himself" is often inserted into unexpected contexts like a photo caption of the painter Bob Ross^[1] or at the end of a social media post as a non sequitur.^[2][3] The meme has appeared at multiple televised sports games in the form of signs and painted bodies.^[4][5][6] Several people have also randomly interjected the phrase at the end of interviews.^[1][7] It is used by individuals of all sides of the political spectrum without agreement on the specific details of Epstein's death.^[6][8][9]