February 19, 2017
Popular Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone on Monday
slammed social media reports of his death while his younger brother Frank termed
those spreading the hoax as "mentally deranged".
"Please ignore the
stupidity. Alive and well and happy and healthy...Still punching!" the
71-year-old Stallone, the hero of the popular "Rambo" and "Rocky" series, posted
on his Twitter handle.
Terming the social media reports of his brother's
death as rumours, Frank, 67, said: "What kind of sick demented cruel mind things
of things like this to post? People like this are mentally deranged and don't
deserve a place in society."
Sylvester pointed out that the images
purporting to show him suffering from an illness that made him lose his hair
were likely from a scene he has filmed for one of films.
There was a
spate of social media posts on Monday claiming that the actor had died of
cancer.
This is not the first time that erronious messages of Sylvester's
demise had flooded social media. In 2016, a British media news site had claimed
he was dead, prompting him to upload a photo of himself with Russian boxer
Sergey Kovalev on Instagram.
Sylvester's last post on social media was
made on Sunday to promote his new film "Creed II".