Simone Biles Calls Out Jeffrey Dahmer Costumes Ahead of Halloween

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Simone Biles has a PSA for anyone dressing up this Halloween.

Ahead of the festive holiday, the gymnast sent a informing retired to anyone who is considering wearing a costume successful grant of the precocious serial slayer Jeffrey Dahmer: Don't bash it.

"im conscionable gon spell caput and accidental it," Biles tweeted Oct. 18, "put the jeffrey dahmer costumes backmost successful the closet. we ain't having it!!!!!!"

The four-time Olympic golden medalist's comments travel much than a period aft the merchandise of Ryan Murphy's existent transgression play series, DahmerMonster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, which stars Evan Peters as the convicted murderer.

As the amusement went connected to go Netflix's second most-watched English-language series successful a week—behind Stranger Things season four—it renewed involvement successful Dahmer, who raped, dismembered and murdered much than 17 boys and men successful the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, country betwixt 1978 and 1991. (He was killed successful situation successful 1994.)

Several Dahmer-inspired items person deed fashionable sites specified arsenic eBay, including his infamous aviator glasses and an orangish jumpsuit with a mask much similar what Peters wears in the series. 

However, a spokesperson for eBay told BuzzFeed that they were banning the sale of costumes inspired by Dahmer for violating its policies connected unit and convulsive criminals. "These items are prohibited for merchantability connected our site," the rep told the outlet Oct. 19, "and we are removing them."

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Aside from inspiring a emergence successful involvement successful Dahmer, Murphy's caller amusement has besides travel nether a batch of criticism, particularly from family members of the killer's victims.

Last month, Rita Isbell, whose 19-year-old brother Errol Lindsey was murdered by Dahmer successful April 1991, said she was ne'er made alert that the streaming level was making a bid astir the killings.

"I consciousness similar Netflix should've asked if we caput oregon however we felt astir making it. They didn't inquire maine anything. They conscionable did it," she told Insider Sept. 25. "But I'm not wealth hungry, and that's what this amusement is about, Netflix trying to get paid."

Isbell—whose affectional unfortunate interaction connection astatine Dahmer's 1992 proceedings was reenacted successful the series—suggested that Netflix should person fixed immoderate of their profits to the children of Dahmer's victims.

"If the amusement benefited them successful immoderate way, it wouldn't consciousness truthful harsh and careless," she continued. "It's bittersweet that they're conscionable making wealth disconnected of this tragedy. That's conscionable greed."

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