11-15-2013, 01:15 PM
|
|
|
Purveyor, Fine Asian Porn
Industry Role:
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Posts: 38,323
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by DVTimes
|
News posting / conspiracy kooks should be suspended for a week each time one of their stories is debunked... 
Quote:
Andy Kaufman?s brother now claims he was the victim of a hoax
In what may be the least surprising development of the week, Andy Kaufman?s brother Michael, who appeared onstage in New York on Monday with a woman claiming to be the late comedian?s daughter, now claims he is the victim of a hoax.
Rumors that Kaufman staged his own demise and was now a family man living under an assumed identity, possibly in Albuquerque, have stubbornly persisted since the ?Taxi? star succumbed to kidney failure related to a rare form of lung cancer in 1984. The conspiracy theory lit up the Internet this week after a young woman came forward at the Andy Kaufman Awards claiming the comedian is still alive and that she is his daughter.
As recently as Thursday morning, the surviving Kaufman was receptive to the idea that his brother might still be alive (or was at least pretending to be). Then the website the Smoking Gun reported that Andy Kaufman?s ?daughter? is actually a New York actress named Alexandra Tatarsky, recruited by Michael after meeting at an exhibit earlier this year.
The Los Angeles County Coroner also re-released Kaufman?s death certificate, saying in a statement, ?He is dead.?
On Thursday afternoon, Michael Kaufman appeared on CNN?s ?The Lead With Jake Tapper,? where he denied conspiring with Tatarsky and said he was the victim of an elaborate stunt.
|
ADG |
|
|