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  • Death Rumour Plagued Godfather Actor Finally Dies

    27 Jan 2016 by Jasmine Stone in Celebrities, Entertainment, Movies, RIP, Vibe
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    It’s an odd title to hold but Abe Vigoda, one of the stars of the Godfather movie franchise, is widely referred to as the man declared dead in internet hoaxes more often than anyone else.

    Now, at the ripe old age of 94, Abe has finally passed away and this time it is for real. Not that everyone was convinced at first, given that there is a long and illustrious history of jumping the gun on this one. Here’s the Daily Beast:

    He was dead in 1982, when People magazine declared him absent from the Barney Millerwrap party on account of his unfortunate passing.

    He was dead again in 1987, when a local news reporter did the same thing.

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    He was dead all throughout the next four decades on David Letterman’s show, where the late-night host consistently referred to Vigoda’s ghost or had him on just to prove he was alive. (“So Abe, you’re anything but dead,” Letterman once said. “Well, thank you,” Vigoda replied.)

    He was frequently dead in Conan O’Brien’s monologue and in guest appearances on sketches, at Drew Carey’s Friar’s Club Roast (he was in the audience, alive), and on his regularly vandalized Wikipedia page all throughout the 2000s.

    One place he was never declared dead, until yesterday that is, was the site AbeVigoda.com. If you visit the site you are now greeted by this sad scene:

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    The site, purchased 15 years ago by a fan called Greg Galcik, confirmed the demise of the popular actor once and for all. Here’s what Galcik said:

    No one associated with Vigoda ever reached out to Galcik to take down the site. Galcik never ran ads on AbeVigoda.com as a goodwill gesture.

    While the actor was a ghost on Letterman and a dead guest on Conan, AbeVigoda.comwas there to remind people he was alive all along.

    “It’s a shame to see him go,” said Galcik. “I don’t really know what celebrities are really like, but he had to have a sense of humor about himself. You saw it with this.”

    Now he’s sleeping with the fishes.

    [source:dailybeast]

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