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In the wake of comedian Robin Williams' death by suicide in August 2014, an item about Williams' supposedly requiring in his work contracts that the company hiring him also had to hire a certain number of homeless people and put them to work quickly spread far and wide online: This account appears to have originated with an article posted by Brian Lord (A Little Known Robin Williams Story) on 12 August 2014, recounting the author's experience in attempting to hire Williams for an event: That bit of information took off virally when it was quoted in a Facebook post made on 25 August by a user named Perry Marshall, whom many readers confused with Penny Marshall, an actress/comedienne who was friends with Robin Williams throughout his life. As of now this story remains unverified: We've seen no mention or confirmation of it by anyone who ever worked with Robin Williams, nor has anyone to our knowledge produced a copy of a Robin Williams contract bearing the clause in question. The Smoking Gun document leak site long ago posted what may have been a backstage rider from a Robin Williams' appearance in 2002, but it included no reference in its text to a requirement for employing the homeless.
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