False reports of singer Tom Petty’s death incites backlash from daughter

It had been falsely reported that legendary rock star Tom Petty had passed away causing media stir and an outpouring from his fans. The false news really upset his daughter, artist Annakim Violette Petty, and she blasted the media sites for spreading such an upsetting news.

The reports claimed that Petty had suffered a heart attack and he had died because of it. However, Violette angrily dismissed these reports and said that even though her father appeared to have serious health problems, he was still alive.

Los Angeles celebrity news site, TMZ, first broke this story with the news that Petty was found unconscious at his home in Malibu on Sunday night and he was rushed to the hospital. Later, it was reported by TMZ that Petty had been taken off life support and had passed away.

But the Los Angeles Police Department denied it was the source of the information. Writing on Twitter, the department said that “initial information was inadvertently provided to some media sources.”

“We apologize for any inconvenience in this reporting,” it tweeted.

Music magazine Rolling Stone also ran an obituary of Petty along with a quote from rock legend Bob Dylan, who played with him in the former Travelling Wilbury’s band.

The rocker´s daughter, flatly denied he was dead and lashed out at Rolling Stone.

“How dare you report that my father has died just to get press because your articles and photos are so dated?” she wrote in a profanity-laden Instagram post along with an image of Tom Petty on a 1979 cover.

But she suggested in other posts that her father was indeed facing health issues. She thanked well-wishers, saying, “This has been the longest day of my life” and writing, in a nod to the Black Lives Matter movement, “Dad Lives Matter.”

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