A rumor that circulated online in August 2025 claimed world-renowned singer Celine Dion died on or just before Aug. 3.
For example, on Aug. 3, a user managing the popular Inspirational Quotes Page (@inspirationalquotesofficialpagenew) Facebook page posted (archived) a picture of Dion with the words "breaking news" and "1968-2025." The post's text read, "30 minutes ago The family announced the sad news of Legend singer Celine Dion Farewell in tears...," and featured a comment leading to an advertisement-filled article on the omeganewsbd.com website. Other users also promoted the same rumor and story link on other Facebook pages.
(Inspirational Quotes Page/Facebook)
A person managing comedian Karlous Miller's Facebook page, which has over 2.7 million followers, also posted the same rumor, image and article link on Aug. 3. While that post showed up (archived) via a direct link, it did not display on the main feed. The person creating the post possibly submitted it as what online advertisers label as a dark post — a post usually created for ads that does not appear on the user's page. According to a search of Meta Ads, a user created the dark post but did not attach it to any advertising campaigns.
(Karlous Miller/Facebook)
However, searches of Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google and Yahoo found no news media outlets reporting Dion died. Had she truly died, outlets worldwide — not just Facebook pages and untrustworthy blogs — would have reported on the matter.
Rather, other users, including those on TikTok, promoted the same rumor in prior weeks and months, either with the same image or with a similar one, or with videos users partially or wholly generated with artificial-intelligence (AI) tools.
A check of Dion's official social media pages on Aug. 4 — the day after some users promoted the false rumor and months after others' posts — found no information about the rumors of Dion's death. Instead, new posts from Aug. 4 featured pictures from one of her past performances.
Snopes contacted representatives for Dion via email to ask about the death hoax, and will update this story if we receive further information.
For further reading, a previous fact-check article examined another Dion death hoax circulating in 2023, one year after her diagnosis of stiff-person syndrome, which the National Organization for Rare Diseases (NORD) defined as "a rare acquired neurological disorder that most often causes progressive muscle stiffness (rigidity) and repeated episodes of painful muscle spasms."