{"id":95150,"date":"2026-01-24T00:50:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/95150\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T00:50:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:50:23","slug":"comedian-mike-epps-reveals-he-once-had-a-young-stalker-from-erie-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/95150\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Mike Epps reveals he once had a young stalker from Erie, Pa."},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes with fame there comes a price. Sometimes that price includes having to hire a private investigator to learn who your stalker is in Erie.<\/p>\n

On an episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/a>!” that aired on Jan. 22, Kimmel interviewed comedian and actor Mike Epps<\/a>. Epps, who is known for movies including “Next Friday,” “All About the Benjamins,” “The Hangover,” and more, shared with Kimmel how he handles hecklers.<\/p>\n

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Actor and comedian Mike Epps, shown in this May 2025 file photo in Indianapolis, revealed how he handles hecklers and a stalker situation on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on a show that aired Jan. 22.<\/p>\n

Epps then revealed in the episode that he once had a stalker online who relayed personal information to the comedian including his address. This prompted Epps, a native of Indianapolis, to hire a personal investigator.<\/p>\n

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Epps: Investigator learns stalker is from Erie<\/p>\n

Epps discussed on the episode that after the private investigator did his job, he revealed the alleged stalker was a 12-year-old from Erie. The name of the stalker was not disclosed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI found out he was a 12-year-old boy from Erie, Pennsylvania,\u201d Epps said in the episode. \u201cHis mother said, ‘he\u2019s just having a good time,’ and I said, ‘could you go in there and whoop his butt for me and put it on camera?’\u201d<\/p>\n

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Epps was promoting his Netflix comedy special “Delusional”<\/a> and tv series “The Upshaws.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Contact Nicholas Sorensen at Nsorensen@usatodayco.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Erie Times-News: Mike Epps claims he was cyber heckled by 12-year-old from Erie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes with fame there comes a price. Sometimes that price includes having to hire a private investigator to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[46786,136,138,137,32159,46784,46785],"class_list":["post-95150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-all-about-the-benjamins","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-mike-epps","tag-private-investigator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}