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Claim: Former NBA superstar Michael Jordan has died in his sleep of a heart attack. In February 2015, the web site Cronica MX published an article reporting that former Chicago Bull

basketball star Michael Jordan had passed away of a heart attacj at the age of 52: > This morning the ex basket ball player and also icon of world > sports, Michael Jordan, was found 

dead while in his sleep in his > residence in North Caroline. Around 3 am eastern time, Yvette > Prieto, now widow of the star noticed that her husband showed no > vital signs and 

she proceeded to call 911. Minutes after the > paramedics arrived, they confirmed the death of the athlete due to a > heart attack. >  > The wife, Yvette Prieto, said she feels 

devastated for the sudden > death of his beloved husband and in a short speech to some news > reporters she thanked them for all the support. She said that Jordan > was a great 

person and everybody loved him. >   The web site also produced a video in order to lend some credibility to the claim that His Airness had died. Although the clip was designed to look

like a breaking news segment, the footage posted to YouTube was not anything broadcast by a credible news network: [embedded content]   The dead giveaway that this video was a fake (and the

report of Jordan's death a hoax) came at the 25-second mark, when reporter Rich Eisen appeared on screen to give a tearful goodbye to the sports legend. Although the footage of Eisen

was real, the sports reporter was not shown mourning the death of Michael Jordan; rather, that portion of the clip was a recycled portion of an NFL Game Day broadcast from January 2015 which

aired shortly after the death of Eisen's fellow ESPN anchor Stuart Scott: [embedded content]