The artificial account took authority afterwards it was tweeted that the activity brilliant had suffered a affection attack, the Courier-Mail reported.
'RIP Jackie Chan' topped Twitter's trending topics, sparking abashing and arch to a column on Chan's Facebook folio debunking the story.
"Jackie is animate and well. He did not ache a affection advance and die, as was appear on abounding amusing networking sites and in online account reports.
"Jackie is accomplished and is active advancing for the filming of his abutting movie."
The antic originated on a affected website fabricated to attending like the Australian account website Yahoo!7News.
Chan is not the aboriginal celebrity to be anon dead off on the internet.
Jurassic Park brilliant Jeff Goldblum was the victim of a agnate artificial account that he had died in a ski blow in New Zealand, sparking a access of copycat celebrity afterlife hoaxes.