In June of 2009, Stephen Colbert’s announcement that actor Jeff Goldblum had died was interrupted by none other than … Jeff Goldblum. A rumor that Goldblum had fallen off a cliff while filming a movie in New Zealand had spread through the Twitter-verse only a week after many people had learned online — correctly — that Michael Jackson had died. As the Colbert Report showed, even TODAY in Australia took the news seriously, reporting that “New Zealand police are saying that it is a correct story.”
#RIP? 10 Celebrity Victims of Twitter Death Hoaxes
Jeff Goldblum
Full List
X Celebrities Falsely Pronounced Dead on Twitter