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1 hour ago, Thatcher said:

This is the supposed source, his daughters Facebook account - couldn't be sure about the authenticity but it seems legit.

R.I.P. Jake.

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Now dead on wikipedia, if it means anything...

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1 hour ago, gcreptile said:

Now dead on wikipedia, if it means anything...

Alive on Wiki at the moment. Nothing on Twitter. 

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Four hours and still nothing. I'm thinking it's a hoax. Either this or the family wants to keep it secret and denied to newspapers. Either way this is not a hit for DL till we see an obit. 

 

But it's Jake LaMotta, if he was really dead it would have been reported by BBC, Daily Mail, NY Times within minutes. I'm going with a false report.

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Wiki has him alive now.

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List of the Lost? :P

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Surely his daughter wouldn't lie or make a mistake. Could be a Brian Matthew situation with him close to death but clinging on for a few days

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9 minutes ago, CoffinLodger said:

Surely his daughter wouldn't lie or make a mistake. Could be a Brian Matthew situation with him close to death but clinging on for a few days

 

 

Aye, but she could've been fraped

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No. I think he's dead but his family wants to delay the announcement, a decision they took after his daughter's post on FB. So they denied his death when they received call phone from major newspapers and agencies and will hide it for a few days. But he will end to be a hit for DL this year, sooner or later.

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So his family refrain from disclosing it and as a result it gets broken by the International Business Times UK? 

 

Not exactly deserving of such a legend.

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Alive about five minutes ago, dead about three minutes ago.
I assume they waited for multiple Facebook posts and they took the inbetween time to change all the present tense "is" to "was" on his page over the last few hours

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Now it's dead on Wikipedia again... I think it's true,... the obit will be on the deathlist before the end of the day

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If his daughter lives in NYC as stated on the Facebook profile it's still only 6:45am there, could be perfectly reasonable they were waiting until later today to make the announcement. IBTimes has probably sat on that for as long as they feel comfortable with and is pushing to get some form of confirmation or denial. 

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1 minute ago, Deadpool said:

Now it's dead on Wikipedia again... I think it's true,... the obit will be on the deathlist before the end of the day

Wikipedia doesn't mean anything as they depend on the IBTimes, which cities the Facebook posts just like us. They actually removed my edits because I mentioned Facebook as a source, while keeping the last edits that virtually did the same... strange place.

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One family member could be mistaken. Two is a case of watch this space.

 

Anyhow, it's September, and if he is dead, it's not like he's going anywhere.

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 Similar thing happened when Robert Earl Jones died.

For 2 weeks it was posted, then removed from Wikipedia, posted again etc until it was finally confirmed.

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This reminds me to the confusion the day Bhumibol Adulyadej died.

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8 minutes ago, maryportfuncity said:

Meanwhile his death is discussed as an internet death hoax

 

http://en.mediamass.net/people/jake-lamotta/deathhoax.html

 

 

You'd never catch any of us behaving this way, right?

I thought you would know that site is always a hoax by now...

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OK, and please let's set aside 'she was hacked' cuz that would be pure bullshit..... but why would his daughter HOAX her FB page?  
I say he's dead.

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