American former Hollywood actor and football star O.J. Simpson has died at the age of 76, his family has revealed. The controversial figure has died after a battle with cancer. In a statement on X, his family said: "On April 10th, our father, Orenthal James Simpson, succumbed to his battle…
A Canadian judge has just signed off on a request from government doctors to euthanize a 27-year-old woman because she suffers from autism. The approval of the case comes despite desperate pleas from her devasted father to block the government's "assisted suicide" of his daughter. The request was made by…
Country music legend Toby Keith has tragically died at the age of 62, his management team announced early Tuesday. The country music world has suffered a huge loss after the death of Keith, who lost a battle with cancer. As Slay News previously reported, Keith revealed last year that he…
Actor David Soul, one of the stars of the classic hit TV show "Starsky & Hutch," has died at 80 years old. Soul played Detective Kenneth "Hutch" Hutchinson in the 1970s buddy cop series. A representative for the actor confirmed that Soul passed away overnight Thursday. "David Soul – beloved…
Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor has died at the age of 56. The Dublin performer released 10 studio albums and had a massive global hit singing Prince’s "Nothing Compares 2 U." O'Conner's version was named the number-one world single in 1990 by the Billboard Music Awards. At this time, no cause…
Tony Bennett, the true American legend, has died at 96 years old. His music career spanned 70 years. Bennett died in his hometown of New York, his publicist Sylvia Weiner confirmed today. “I enjoy entertaining the audience, making them forget their problems,” he said in 2006. “I think people are…
A 76-year-old woman, who was declared dead at a hospital in Ecuador, banged on her coffin during her own wake and was rescued by her son and other mourners. Her son Gilberto Barbera said: “There were about 20 of us there. "After about five hours of the wake, the coffin…
American domestic terrorist Theodore "Ted" Kaczynski, known as the "Unabomber," was found dead in his prison cell Saturday morning. Kaczynski's sudden death was announced by a Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson. He was 81. Kaczynski was locked up in a supermax prison in Colorado. However, he had recently been moved…
Radical billionaire George Soros has taken to social media to shut down reports spreading across Twitter that he died of a "violent heart attack." The unconfirmed rumors started to spread over the weekend and false reports that Soros has died quickly went viral. “George Soros dead” started trending on Twitter…
A senior Google engineer has reportedly jumped to his death from the 14th floor of the company's headquarters in New York City. According to authorities, however, the 31-year-old man, whose identity is being withheld, didn't leave a suicide note or a video message before taking the fatal plunge. The man…