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Reports: Breakfast Club's Judd Nelson is, in fact, still alive

Actor Judd Nelson attends the GBK Productions Luxury Lounge honoring the best in TV held at LErmitage on August 22, 2014 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for GBK Productions)
Actor Judd Nelson attends the GBK Productions Luxury Lounge honoring the best in TV held at LErmitage on August 22, 2014 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for GBK Productions)
By Mike Denison
Oct 28, 2014

Judd Nelson, of "The Breakfast Club" fame, is not dead.

A news outlet that announced his death was part of a hoax, according to The L.A. Times.

A site with a URL that made it look like Fox News reported that Nelson, who played John Bender in "The Breakfast Club" and Alec Newbary in "St. Elmo's Fire," had died at 55.

However, Nelson's agent Gregg Klein sent a picture of  Nelson to the Times. He was reading the newspaper in the photo.

Nelson's manager, Jean-Pirre Henraux, said he wasn't sure how the rumor got started.

Not only is Nelson still alive, he's in "perfect" shape, Henraux told the Times. Nelson will appear in an episode of "Empire."

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