Ray Liotta‘s Facebook web page has been hacked by a celeb demise hoaxer.
The late Goodfellas star’s web page had been spreading faux information about celebrities corresponding to Ellen DeGeneres, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger in current days.
According to TMZ, a consultant for Liotta’s workforce mentioned they’d been working with Facebook to resolve the issue, although after that was confirmed the web page posted pornography, which has since been eliminated.
The account seems to have been restored to regular as of as we speak (March 27).
Liotta died final May aged 67, passing away in his sleep within the Dominican Republic, the place he was filming the movie Dangerous Waters.
The actor was well-known for starring in 1990’s Goodfellas, and lately had appeared in movies corresponding to Marriage Story, The Sopranos prequel The Many Saints Of Newark and this 12 months’s Cocaine Bear.
The latter’s director Elizabeth Banks mentioned after Liotta’s passing: “I had a special bond with Ray Liotta. We met on a little film, The Details and he blew me away. I always admired his acting but I genuinely enjoyed him as a human. He was a charmer.”
The actor additionally made his closing TV look in Apple TV+ sequence Black Bird, with co-star Taron Egerton paying tribute to him final July.
“We just clicked and we were very open and frank and candid with each other,” he advised RadioTimes.com.
“He brought a level of commitment to that and a level of care and thought and passion and a level of himself to the role that I found very inspiring to be across,” Egerton added. “And I believe, of any relationship I’ve built with another actor and a character relationship, it’s the one that I feel is the most fully realised and that I feel most proud of.”