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Prince Fans Forced TMZ Offline After Reporting the Singer’s Death

Source: Facebook/TMZ

The world was left speechless when TMZ first reported the death of legendary singer Prince. After publishing the article online, heavy traffic caused the site to briefly crash. Many fans were hoping that the celebrity-gossip site got the story wrong…and that Prince would take to social media to let everyone know he was really okay. Sadly, that didn’t happen.

Prince was so big, that his death made @TMZ website crash. #RIPPrince

— Robert Knowles (@Robknow23) April 21, 2016

only Prince could crash the TMZ servers.

— alyssa kritsch (@alys) April 21, 2016

The death of Prince has crashed TMZ. I don’t think I have ever seen TMZ crash before.

— Jeremy Bennett (@JBHuskers) April 21, 2016