The Top 8 Celebrities Killed by the Internet
Ivana Wynn The internet's a killer. Twitter and Google have a way of spreading news like wildfire, especially when it comes to a celebrity's untimely "demise". Over the years, the internet has helped fake death stories go viral within a matter of hours, fooling the average person (and sometimes close friends of that person) into believing that another beloved star has shuffled off this moral coil. We are, of course, using the term "beloved" loosely, because no one cares about Paris Hilton.
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The day after Michael Jackson and Farah Fawcett died (June 26, 2009), rumors of Jeff Goldblum's passing started to appear online. A news story generated by FakeAWish.com reported (under the fake news outlet "Global Associated Press") that Goldblum had fallen from the Kauri Cliffs in New Zealand while on the set of a movie. The Australia Today Show reported on the potential truth of the story and mourned him, calling him a "good bloke."
If this story sounds familiar to you, that’s because the same exact rumor was circulated about Harrison Ford, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, and a plethora of other actors, most of which were started by the FakeAWish.com team.
Jeff Still Alive:
Goldblum appeared on The Colbert Report several days later to deliver his own obituary and relish his own compliments of having had "Brando's muscularity" and a "verbatim" quote from a former conquest that described sex with him "like being caught in a flesh storm with a 90% chance of satisfaction."1 of 8
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