Date 31/12/2015 - News People
Robert Redford's publicist say he is alive and well, as of Thursday, referring to reports on Twitter that the "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid" actor had died "a sick hoax." Twitter briefly erupted with R.I.P. tributes after a tweet purporting to come from Britain's Sky News said the 79-year-old actor had died after falling off a golf buggy in the Southern California beach city of Santa Monica. The fake news feed where the post appeared, Sky Breaking News, in the past has spread other celebrity death reports that proved equally untrue.
