SINBAD IS NOT DEAD!: Comedian is latest victim of death rumor spreading unchecked on the Internet.

SINBAD IS NOT DEAD!:

Comedian is latest victim of death rumor spreading unchecked on the Internet.
ONCE AGAIN PEOPLE WE NEED TO CHECK WHAT WE SEND OUT BEFORE WE EMAIL IT

For all of you who recieved emails today saying Sinbad died from a heart attack, the news is 100 percent not true. Yesterday (Wed, March 14th) somebody altered the comedians Wikipedia page to say the the former Showtime At The Apollo host died of a fatal heart attack. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinbad_(actor) The news soon hit the web via a forwarded email which contained the link to the false news story.
EUR's Lee Bailey has spoken with the a red-haired, freckle-faced comic’s brother and manager, Mark Adkins, who confirms that the former star is most notably remembered for his role as Walter Oakes in The Cosby Show spinoff A Different World, is alive and well (go to Lee Bailey's EUR WEB Listen to phone conversation with Sinbad's brother http://www.eurweb.com/story/eur32124.cfm).
“That was a vicious rumor, I don’t know where it came from, but it started last weekend,” Mark, the head of a promotions company in Los Angeles, told Bailey on the phone Thursday afternoon. “It just started circulating around the country, and today I got more calls than any.”
“On Saturday I started getting a lot of comedians calling me saying that they heard Sinbad had passed away,” Mark continued. “Then it had died down for a couple of days and we thought it was just a little local rumor, but then it went across the country. I got calls from Detroit and New York, radio stations calling. I guess there’s some sort of obituary or something on the e-mail blast that made it seem real.”
Sinbad himself, born David Adkins, is scheduled to speak with Lee Bailey later today. We’ll keep you posted