Denzel Washington Is NOT Dead! The Actor Joins Kanye West, Morgan Freeman and Will Smith As Big Celebrity Hoaxes

With six words— Denzel Washington Dies In Snowboard Accident— he of single, grown-man-tear-down-the-cheek fame, joined the long list of celebrities killed off by the rumor mill.

According to one article, which got more than 1,000 Facebook likes today, Washington was vacationing at a ski resort in Switzerland when he lost control of his snowboard and crashed into a tree. The article claimed the Academy Award winner “died instantly.” The website appears to be fake, and a way to drive traffic to the ski resort at which Washington supposedly met his end.

The Denzel hoax (yes, Huffington Post BlackVoices is on a first name basis with him) is just the latest in a long line of notable faux-fatalities.

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Will Smith must have nine lives, because he's been rumored to be dead a whole bunch of times.

May 2011 proved to be a tough month for Smith, first rumors that he was either in a car accident or died of a drug overdose began to circulate, then he saw the same fate as Hilary Duff by falling of a cliff in New Zealand.

Rumors of Smith dying via car crash have circulated online since 2007.