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In late February 2018, a developing story saying that Hollywood producer and accused sexual assaulter Harvey Weinstein had committed suicide appeared on faux ABC News web site abcnewgo.com: No such reports appeared in any reliable news sources, although the Los Angeles Times reported earlier in February that Weinstein was living in Arizona while undergoing addiction treatment. Weinstein did not write the social media statements attributed to him in the article. Rather, in a maudlin move, someone copied them from a Facebook post that Kentucky state representative Dan Johnson posted shortly before he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on 13 December 2017. Politico reporter Akela Lacy quoted Johnson's post as follows: It wasn't the first time that a fabricated report of a celebrity death appeared on ABCNewGo.com. The site reported that ailing British comedian Ken Dodd had died in January 2018, prompting an angry denial from his publicist.
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