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Facts behind the Sylvester Stallone Death Hoax
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Facts behind the Sylvester Stallone Death Hoax

Feb 19, 2018
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Once again a death hoax from rumors and this time they claimed that Sylvester Stallone has died. This hoax virally circulated on social media and Stallone isn’t happy about this hoax. On Monday, 71-years old actor Sylvester Stallone tweeted and said: “Please ignore the stupidity”. He also said that he is alive, healthy, happy and … Still punching! He also pointed out that the published images showing the actor was suffering from an illness and lost his hair. The images are most probably taken from a scene Stallone has filmed. His younger brother 67-years old Frank Stallone also slammed social media due to a heartbreaking death hoax of Sylvester Stallone. He said that news regarding the death of my brother is not correct and it is just a rumor.

Sylvester Stallone death hoax

On Monday, Metro also reported that massive amount of messages were started to circulate on social media over the weekend. They were claiming that the “Rocky” Sylvester Stallone has died after battling prostate cancer. Bewildered Twitter users started to immediately ask if the actor had really died or if he was just the victim of another cruel joke. 71-years old Hollywood actor didn’t immediately respond to the request of Fox News for comment. It shouldn’t be considered the first time Stallone has been the subject of a death hoax. Metro is a UK-based news website and it added rumors of his passing circulated back in the year 2016. It prompted Stallone to upload a photo of himself with Russian boxer Sergey Kovalev on Instagram. It is important that the last post of Stallone was made on Sunday in order to promote Creed II.