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Bon Jovi Disputes Rumors of His Death

HEAVEN’S IN N.J.

After Twitter spreads false report.

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Not to worry, everyone, Jon Bon Jovi is alive and well. The singer posted a photo on Facebook Tuesday of himself holding up a sign that read “Heaven looks a lot like New Jersey. December 19, 2011,” to dispel the random rumor spread around Twitter that Bon Jovi had died from a cardiac arrest Monday. The Los Angeles Times even reported the story, which first appeared on an unknown WordPress blog called “newbloginternational.” Bon Jovi joins a group of other celebrities whose deaths have been prematurely announced online, including Lady Gaga, Eddie Murphy, Bill Cosby, Jeff Goldblum, Harrison Ford, and Morgan Freeman.

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