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(Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) Claim: Film actor Sylvester Stallone died in November 2022. Rating: False About this rating On Nov. 22, 2022, a YouTube video was uploaded that claimed film actor Sylvester Stallone was dead. The video title read, \"5 minutes ago, legendary actor Sylvester Stallone is saying goodbye, along with his last regret.\" However, this was nothing more than the latest death hoax for Stallone, who previously was said to have been killed in a car accident in Australia in 2014 and or died of prostate cancer in 2016. ![\\"Sylvester](\\" Advertisement: Despite the misleading video, which had so far received more than 173,000 views, we found no credible reporting that said Stallone was dead, nor did we locate any information about him being sick, injured, or hospitalized. In reality, the 76-year-old actor was busy promoting his new Paramount+ series, \"Tulsa King.\" In the days after the YouTube video went up, similar death hoaxes for Stallone also appeared on Facebook. One such video post said, \"With a heavy heart at the tearful farewell to Legendary actor Sylvester Stallone, goodbye Stallone.\" ![\\"Sylvester](\\" Advertisement: Another Facebook post was captioned with a death hoax about fellow film actor Bruce Willis, but featured a link to a different story about Stallone. This led us to believe that the people behind the videos and posts about Stallone also created recent hoaxes about Willis, \"America\'s Got Talent\" judge Simon Cowell, reality TV star Amy Roloff, Hollywood icons Clint Eastwood and Julia Roberts, and country music star Alan Jackson, all of which we covered with separate stories. ![\\"Sylvester](\\" Advertisement: As we noted in our previous articles about the other celebrities, the links from the Facebook posts led to misleading reporting that showed pop-up ads. Those pop-up ads led to malware, which appeared to be the goal of the people involved in pushing the death hoaxes. We strongly recommend against clicking links, especially strange pop-up ads, on suspect websites that readers have never visited before. With these kinds of death hoaxes, we advise that readers proceed with caution before believing in them, or sharing them. If a purported death announcement on social media mentions \"very sad news,\" a \"tearful farewell,\" or a \"last regret,\" and shows a strange picture next to a casket or other images that don\'t look legitimate, it\'s probably a hoax. #### Sources Ibrahim, Nur. \"Why Are Online Death Hoaxes so Popular?\" Snopes, 22 Sept. 2022, Jones, Tamera. \"Sylvester Stallone Talks \'Tulsa King\' and How He Made the Character His Own.\" Collider, 17 Nov. 2022, stallone-tulsa-king-interview/. Liles, Jordan. \"Alan Jackson Is Not Dead, Despite \'Sad News\' Facebook Death Hoax.\" Snopes, 5 Dec. 2022, death-hoax/. \---. \"Amy Roloff Is Not Dead, Despite \'Sad News\' Death Hoax on Facebook and YouTube.\" Snopes, 21 Nov. 2022, roloff-death-hoax/. \---. \"Bruce Willis Is Not Dead, Despite \'Very Sad News\' Facebook Death Hoax.\" Snopes, 17 Nov. 2022, death-hoax/. \---. \"Clint Eastwood Is Not Dead, Despite \'Sad News\' Facebook Death Hoax.\" Snopes, 6 Dec. 2022, death-hoax-2022/. \---. \"Julia Roberts Is Not Dead, Despite \'Sad News\' Facebook Death Hoax.\" Snopes, 5 Dec. 2022, hoax/. \---. \"Simon Cowell Is Not Dead, Despite \'Very Sad News\' Death Hoax.\" Snopes, 1 Dec. 2022, hoax/. Mikkelson, David. \"Sylvester Stallone Death Hoax.\" Snopes, 26 Aug. 2014, Snopes Staff. \"Sylvester Stallone Death Hoax.\" Snopes, 1 Sept. 2016, ### By Jordan Liles Jordan Liles is a Senior Reporter who has been with Snopes since 2016. ## Article Tags Death Hoax Sylvester Stallone Recommendations Advertisement: ![\\"Snopes.com\\"](\\"/design/images/logo-main.png\\") Company About Us FAQs Contact Us Submit a Topic Navigate Home Search Archive Newsletters Random Sections Latest Top Fact Checks News Account Join Login Game FactBot Like Us on Facebook Follow Us on Twitter © 1995 - 2024 by Snopes Media Group Inc. This material may not be reproduced without permission. Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com Terms of Use Privacy Policy DMCA Policy
Film actor Sylvester Stallone died in November 2022