Despite loads of recent Internet rumors, Hugh Hefner is not dead. For the past few years, celebrity death hoaxes virally spread faster to mass amounts of people with each new development in social media. Whether creating a celebrity death hoax is a fad done by bored Internet users or crafty publicists looking for free publicity for a stagnant star, it's up to you to decide. Here are seven celebrities who falsely made it to heaven.
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Again, Twitter users are the culprit for the latest scandal in fake Hollywood deaths, Wesley Snipes, who is said earlier this week to have been killed in a fight. The actor is alive in prison after being charged for defrauding the U.S. in 2006.ReutersOn the same day as Michael Jackson died, a hacker posted on Britney Spears’ Twitter, "Britney has passed today. It is a sad day for everyone. More news to come." Ellen Degeneres and P.Diddy were also attacked by the same hacker that day.ReutersPronounced dead twice in one day, a viral tweet spread around that Justin Bieber was shot by a publicist and then killed in a car accident back in June. He tweeted, “Wait … turns out I’m alive.”ReutersRapper and entrepreneur Shawn Carter a.k.a. Jay-Z has invested in part of the New Jersey Nets, and now, actor Will Smith (left) has become part owner of his hometown Philadelphia 76ers.ReutersBack in November 2006 before Twitter, a fake news site said that Tom Hanks fell from a cliff in New Zealand, citing police officials and an exact time.ReutersDuring her stay in the Los Angeles Twin Towers Correctional Facility, it was reported that Paris Hilton was dead, either from suicide or being stabbed seven times, neither of which were true.Reuters
