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In that race to be first on the folio, sometimes the media accidentally speaks likewise soon in reporting the deaths of celebrities and public figures. And sometimes it'south not an accident, in which the media or the public is oftentimes duped due to ill-brash jokes, conspiracies or hoaxes, many of which went viral until people put the rumors to rest. From slips of the tongue to premature obituaries, here are some celebrities who were initially reported expressionless, even though at the time they were alive and well.
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Tanya Roberts • The actress, who broke out in the 1985 Bail film "A View to a Impale" and later appeared in the sitcom "That '70s Testify," was falsely reported every bit dead in January 2021 -- with her publicist and manager confirming the news before retracting it a mean solar day afterwards.
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Bob Dylan • Archetype stone fans can exhale, because Bob Dylan is alive and well, contrary to a Nov. 21, 2020 report on MSNBC that said he had died in 2019. "Sorry about that," a network news anchor said.
Drake • Fans of the Canadian rapper panicked when, on Nov. 14, 2020, they saw #RIPDrake trending on Twitter. But as information technology turned out, the four-time Grammy-winner was the victim of a hoax. Clicking on a (supposed) L.A. Times headline reading "Drake Canadian Songwriter And Rapper Dies At 34" takes yous to a video of British singer Rick Astley singing "Never Gonna Requite You Up." Below it reads: "Y'all got Rick rolled in 2020."
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Paul McCartney • Conspiracy-loving Beatles fans believe that McCartney died in 1966 and everything that'southward happened to "him" since and then is courtesy of a look-akin and sound-alike. Non only that, they believe clues to McCartney'due south fate were revealed in songs written by swain musicians George Harrison and John Lennon. Like, Lennon's "A Day in the Life," where the lyrics "Paul is dead, miss him, miss him"… are said to be heard only when the vocal is played backward.
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Rick Fox • Following the tragic death of NBA fable Kobe Bryant and his young daughter dying in a helicopter accident outside of Los Angeles in January 2020, his Lakers teammate, Rick Fox, was rumored to be among the other seven aboard the craft who perished. "My family went through, in the midst of all this, something that I couldn't accept imagined them experiencing," Trick told "Inside the NBA."
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Alice Cooper • Fans of the musician got a piddling confused in 1973 after reading Melody Maker magazine's satirical review of Cooper's concert in the grade of a mock obit. Cooper is known for his onstage decapitations and executions, only he afterward had to outcome a statement saying, "I'thou alive, and drunk as usual."
Abe Vigoda • The start time Abe Vigoda was reported expressionless, he was a spry 60-years-sometime when a People mag reporter visited the wrap party of "Barney Miller" in 1982 and said "the belatedly Abe Vigoda" wasn't at that place. 5 years later on, another reporter mistakenly referred to him every bit "the late Abe Vigoda." Jokes near his age and being dead followed him the rest of his career, and his life, because he really did pass away in 2016 at the age of 94.
Bob Hope • Film fable Bob Hope'due south death was announced v years prematurely in 1998 when a pre-written obituary was accidentally published on the Associated Press website. Unfortunately, the erroneous report of his "decease" was and so announced past the United states of america House of Representatives alive on C-Bridge.
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Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake • Equally a joke, 2 Dallas DJs claimed a car accident took the lives of the pop stars, who were dating at the time. "The beginning thing I did was call Britney," Timberlake told ABC News in 2001. "Since the beginning, [when] people knew about our relationship, at that place's always been things that have been said that were totally not true, but this but, like, took it to a whole 'nother planet."
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Avril Lavigne • Rumors began circulating in April 2003 that the "Complicated' singer killed herself after her granddad's decease. And in 2017, Twitter gave new fuel to that fire, igniting a conspiracy theory that the Lavigne known today is actually expect-alike singer Melissa Vandella. As the theory goes, the suits at Lavigne's label cooked up a cover-upwardly scheme of her supposed decease so they could go along to release her songs.
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Will Ferrell • A faux press release posted on the iNewswire Web site in March 2006 claimed that Ferrell was killed in a paragliding accident in Southern California when a wind gust caused him to lose control and crash into trees.
Steve Jobs • Bloomberg's obit of Apple founder Steve Jobs three years before his death in 2008 was specially glaring because that it was 17 pages long. The article had been updated just was and then accidentally published. The news even briefly rattled Wall Street investors. Bloomberg's correction however didn't fifty-fifty list Jobs past name.
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Nick Jonas • The pop singer-turned-thespian was the victim of expiry hoaxes twice in 2009. One written report said he died of cardiac arrest due to complications with his diabetes, while another said his eye stopped afterward a lap dance in a Dallas strip club.
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Taylor Swift • Apparently, 2009 was not a good year for Swift. She was said to have been in a fatal car blow and so, months afterward, died from an allergic reaction to sleeping pills, which spread like wildfire on Facebook and YouTube. In July 2016, she was once again said to exist dead, presumably because of a mural past an Australian creative person that got lots of press. Information technology was a portrait of the singer and the words "In loving retention of Taylor Swift 1989-2016."
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Zach Braff • The "Scrubs" actor was reported dead in 2009 past a imitation CNN.com folio. The perpetrator of the "joke" later posted an apology, proverb in part, "… Thanks for (apparently) taking it lightly, since I haven't gotten a letter of the alphabet most a lawsuit however. Just then you know, I'g a huge fan; that's the just reason I made this page, believe information technology or not. Also, sorry for upsetting your mother."
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Russell Crowe • The "Gladiator" star took matters into his own hands in June 2010 by tweeting, "Unable to answer tweets fell off a mountain in Austria, all over red rover. Don't know how I got at that place, just the media are never incorrect. M'Goodbye."
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Jackie Chan • "Jackie is live and well," read a note on the activity star's Facebook page following cyberspace fizz that he died in March 2011. "He did non suffer a center set on and die, as was reported on many social networking sites and in online news reports."
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Barack Obama • On July iv, 2011, Fox News' Twitter business relationship was hacked by a group called "The Script Kiddies" and posted that President Obama had been assassinated during an Iowa result.
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Lindsay Lohan • A tweak to Lohan's Wikipedia folio in July 2011 cited her death and credited E! News as their source – which was faux. But the news spread, thanks to a false Kim Kardashian Twitter business relationship.
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Justin Bieber • If you believe social media, Bieber has been "dead" more times than you lot can count. In that location were suicide rumors in 2009 (which resurfaced in 2010), forth with a shooting in a nightclub and an overdose. Then at that place was #RIPJustinBieber, which trended on Twitter in March 2012.
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Eddie Murphy • The actor/comedian has been the subject of false reports of his decease more than once. On Aug. 30, 2012, he has was said to have been killed in a snowboard accident and, most recently, was again the subject of internet buzz afterwards the death of his blood brother Charlie pb to mistaken identity.
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George Soros • Reuters accidentally published their premature obituary for billionaire George Soros on April eighteen, 2013, writing he had "died 30 at age Thirty." Reuters retracted the article and issued a correction: "Reuters erroneously published an advance obituary of financier and philanthropist George Soros. A spokesman for Soros said that the New York-based financier is alive and well. Reuters regrets the fault."
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Celine Dion • Never-ending rumors of Dion's decease on social media do not sit down well with the vocalist, in nifty part because each time 1 sprouts wings and flies, she has to ease her crumbling mother'southward fears. "The thing that worries me is my mum," she said in November 2013 via Digital Spy. "It makes me a little mad – she'due south 86 years quondam and if I'm not on the telephone telling her I'm OK four seconds after it'southward on the news … it doesn't matter what they say, it's the bear on it has on your family."
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Vin Diesel • In January of 2014, Facebook was the starting point for a mail that went viral about the decease of the "Fast & Furious" actor. The post linked to what they said was a "news written report," which, when clicked, requested permission to access the viewer's accounts. If granted, the "RIP Vin Diesel" mail service was sent as spam to everyone on that user'south friends list.
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Dwayne Johnson • The Stone did not die while filming a stunt on the set of "Fast & Furious 7," as was stated in an April 2014 Facebook mail that went viral at the time. He nixed the report and posted a Facebook message of his own that read, "Rumors of my death are false - Im withal 'Bringin' It' 24hrs a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year - including jump year!" A tweet of his took a more direct arroyo: "I would love to meet the person who is starting rumors of my decease - to show them how a expressionless foot feels upwards their ass."
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Macaulay Culkin • When the "Dwelling house Alone" star was targeted past death rumors in November 2014, he debunked the reports past taking to Instagram and posting a photograph parodying a scene from "Weekend at Bernie's."
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Michael Jordan • The web site Cronica MX posted an article in February 2015 reporting the NBA superstar died of a centre attack. They took it a footstep further by producing a video with spliced footage of a breaking news segment and a tearful ballast.
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Martin Lawrence • In Apr 2015, News Buzz Daily falsely reported Martin Lawrence was plant dead in a Los Angeles hotel room by a maid named Verna Del Sosa. Lawrence never mentioned it direct, only he did brand his un-dead self visible on social media in the days post-obit his "death."
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Arnold Schwarzenegger • An Aug. 28, 2015 post on MSMBC.co (not to be mistaken for MSNBC.com) reported that the erstwhile Governator died following a heart attack.
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Carlos Santana • A Sept. 2015 tweet from a Canadian journalist reporting that Santana'south body was institute in a car sparked immediate denials from his peeps. "He is live and well and enjoying his forenoon!" his rep told Usa Today. Team Santana added to that bulletin, posting on their Facebook page, "... Thank you all for your concern, simply the reports of his passing are simulated."
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Robert Redford • The Sundance Film Festival founder's publicist stepped in to phone call reports of his decease in December 2015 "a ill hoax." The fake news get-go came from Great britain'southward Sky News, which said he had fallen off a "golf game buggy" in Santa Monica.
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Chevy Chase • According to a fake written report in Breaking 13 News, the "Community" thespian died in his sleep after suffering a heart attack on January. half-dozen, 2016.
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Sean Penn • News reports popped up on January. 12, 2016 that Sean Penn was found murdered in his Malibu home and that authorities were investigating the possibility that El Chapo might have ordered a hit on the actor/director who had interviewed him shortly before.
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Gabourey Sidibe • The "Empire" star was barraged with tweets from concerned fans in March 2016, who were checking to make sure she was nonetheless alive, post-obit a post that said she had died from an asthma attack. Sidibe assured everyone she was fine, but joked that maybe she was dead, if her "version of Hell is people believing poorly written articles about me."
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Jack Black • The Twitter account for Black's band Tenacious D was hacked in June 2016 and the culprits posted this unsettling bulletin: "Information technology is with a heavy middle I am to announce that Jack Black passed away terminal night at 3:37 am. The cause of death is all the same unknown." They later on cleared up the mess, posting, "We had our Twitter account hacked. We can assure you that Jack is Alive and WELL and that this was a sick 'prank.'"
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Nicolas Muzzle • Although trafficforgoods.site'due south July 2016 headline read "Nicolas Muzzle passed away because of a serious Motorcycle Accident," the torso of the story said he died when he "lost control of his snowboard and struck a tree." But social media took the bait and ran with it anyway. Some other simulated news outlet picked up the story, tweaked information technology and added a Photoshopped film of a motorbike crash scene, Cage'south face and a CNN chyron.
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Hillary Clinton • Following Hillary Clinton'southward advent at a ix/eleven memorial in September 2016 in which she appeared to plummet while getting into a van, ABC News weekend anchor Joe Torres said on that evening'south newscast, "We begin with the breaking news about Hillary Clinton's death." The ballast meant to say "health" rather than "death," but Twitter nonetheless had a field solar day, sparking speculation that the woman who emerged from her daughter Chelsea's abode a few hours later was a look-alike because the former showtime lady had died.
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Cher • Cher was added to the celebrity decease hoax list of victims after a "R.I.P. Cher" Facebook page was created in September 2016. Patently the mail ended with the message "Delight show your sympathy and condolences past commenting on and liking this page" wasn't enough of a clue that it was a fake considering the reports of her passing went viral and attracted nearly a million likes.
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Miley Cyrus • The "Wrecking Ball" singer has dodged the social media Grim Reaper more than once. In 2008, she was said to take been killed past a hit and run commuter, and in 2009 socialite Peaches Geldolf tweeted that a "friend in the industry" texted her that Cyrus had died. Word of her decease arose again in Sept. 2016, when Now8News reported that she was found expressionless in her bathtub after a prescription pill overdose.
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Beyonce • Jewelry can kill you, or at least that's the rumor that started after the singer accidentally ripped out an earring during a Brooklyn concert in Oct 2016 and blood began running downwardly her face. A Facebook folio claimed she had died considering she didn't seek medical attention. The BeyHive was not happy about the hoax.
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Kanye West • Social media, once again, ran amuck in Dec 2016 with the theory that Westward's uncharacteristic beliefs at the time was because information technology wasn't really him… it was a clone. You read that right. Cancelling his bout, dyeing his hair, having a public meltdown and dissing Beyonce and Jay Z while cozying up to Donald Trump was plenty proof for some.
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Adam Sandler • LinkBeef, which was the convenance ground for several celebrity death hoaxes, reported on Jan. thirteen, 2017, that Sandler was constitute dead of an apparent suicide and even cited their source as Marin County Police Department in California and "quoted" Sandler's "utterly heartbroken" wife, Jackie.
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Willie Nelson • The state music legend's publicist shut down rumors of his death that began with a March xiii, 2017 story on Radar Online that said he was "deathly ill." In reality, it was just a "bad common cold" that forced him to cancel a handful of concert dates.
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Betty White • As recently equally May 10, 2017, a tweet popped upwardly saying that White was found expressionless, and some other one said her publicist confirmed it. People are so in love with White, that when her name trends on Twitter, they freak out with worry that she's met her maker. Someone even prepare a GoFundMe to protect her from all the celebrity deaths in 2016.
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Sean Kingston • BBC News shocked the music world in June 2018 when it reported the Jamaican-American singer was found expressionless at his home weeks later he crashed his jet ski into a Miami bridge. "Today" caught upward with the 21-year-former iii months later about his near-expiry experience.
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Costa-Gavras • On Aug. 30, 2018, the Associated Printing reported, and and so withdrew, news that Greek motion picture director Costas-Gavras had died. Their report was based on a tweet that came from a "fake account" believed to be from Greece's culture government minister. In fact, AP said that Gavras even spoke on country television that same mean solar day.
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Jeff Bezos • With an estimated worth skyrocketing to $171 billion during the coronavirus pandemic as homebound people are forced to stay out of stores and shop online, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos became the target of death rumors on July vii, 2020, causing #ripjeffbezos to trend on Twitter.
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Queen Elizabeth Two • American Jason Lee'south Hollywood Unlocked blog mistakenly appear the death of Uk's monarch in February 2022 after Buckingham Palace disclosed that the had a mild case of COVID.
Mark Twain • We couldn't get out out humorist Marker Twain, who became known for, among many other things, i of history'south most misquoted quotes. In 1897, Twain responded to a announcer's inquiry about his health by writing, "James Ross Clemens, a cousin of mine, was seriously ill two or 3 weeks agone in London, but is well now. The report of my disease grew out of his illness; the study of my decease was an exaggeration."
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