<’xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />London, July 31 (ANI): Brad Pitt is the latest celebrity to be targeted by Internet pranksters in an internet death hoax.
The news of his death, which went viral online over the weekend, stated that the actor had had crashed into a tree and died while snowboarding in Zermatt, Switzerland.
The 48-year-old star now joins a long line of other celebrities, including Charlie Sheen, Christian Slater and Adam Sandler, who have also suffered the same hoax fate.
Last year Slater, now 42, was also forced to deny he had been killed in a freak snowboarding accident in Switzerland when the false rumours started spreading round blogs.
Towards the end of 2010 the pranks seemed to be coming at an almost daily rate with dozens of victims, including Eddie Murphy and Adam Sandler.
Others who have been declared dead on the Internet only to be alive and well in real life are Justin Bieber, Britney Spears and Taylor Swift.
Many of the fake death claims appear to have originated from spoof news site Global Associated News.
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