Why was there a rumor about Jackie Chan dying?

Answer 1

There are several versions as to how this rumour got started. It was first reported in Al-Watan newspaper. The explanations vary as to how it got started.

Answer 1:

A mysterious email arrived in a journalist's in box and he reported it as news without verifying the source.

Answer 2: A source talking about some other person who died got translated from Chinese into Arabic and then into English. Mistranslations of the name at each step resulted in the English news report stating 'Jackie Chan' had died when in fact it was some other unrelated person.

Either way the story was not true and he is still very much alive and fit and healthy.