Today's Blind Items - Did It Happen

The death and not death and then death of the former B+ list actress this week, reminded me of something similar that happened a few decades back. See, the original plan was for this A- list actor to take his own death. The entire thing had been in the works for close to a year. Detailed planning. There were people who were hired to say they witnessed the death. There were press releases written announcing the death. Everything down to the last detail. It was all going to happen on July 4th. The story was that he was going to be at the beach in Los Angeles and got pulled out to sea by a riptide current. The original story was going to be that he was eaten by a shark, but people give him for dead really easily in that scenario. His plan was to return from the dead with some great tale about being lost at sea. This was all set to go. It was so set in stone that when he actually did die six weeks earlier, there were press releases sent out that said he had been lost at sea. It is one of the reasons people always wonder whether he is still alive or faked his own death.