Is Eminem Dead? Did Eminem Die in a Car Crash?
Dear Urban Legends: We read on the Internet on Sunday, December 17 that Slim Shady, a.k.a. Eminem, died in a car crash at 2:30 in the morning. According to this article he was on his way to a late-night party and was drunk and high on drugs. We can’t seem to locate the site. Can you find out if this is true or not? Is Eminem really dead? Dear Reader: There’s a very good reason you can’t find the website: it was deleted almost as soon as it went up. Another reader sent me the URL shortly before I received your message, but when I tried to access the page which I’m told was a decent spoof of CNN’s online news site it was nowhere to be found. The article was also posted on a bogus MTV page, now deleted as well. Emails containing the URLs and the headline “Rapper Eminem Dies in Car Accident” began circulating among AOL users on Saturday; by Sunday the pages were nowhere to be found. Here, from a newsgroup posting, is the full text attributed to, but not actually published on, CNN: December
