I first ran into this on a boat captain’s blog. The captain is a political lefty but respected Mr. Breitbart.
It took to post 167 and 168 to get an independent source or two. Even Drudge was using the original link to bighollywood, which proved to be true, but since no one wanted to believe, it took some time to corroborate. The time it took from death to announcement, was the surprise to me. There were a few hours gone by.