*Folks, this story is set to Alexander O’Neal’s hit tune “Fake.” You see, that viral video circulating on social media showing the late Jerry Springer reading his will and leaving his fortune to his 2 Black, illegitimate children is NOT REAL.
No doubt a lot of people are convinced the video is real. Well yes, in its simplest form, it’s real, but the real REALITY is that the video is from a 2020 (virtual) play he was part of that went down in the midst of the pandemic.
Springer made a cameo in the play called, “Blood Money.” The production, according to TMZ, was featured in “REFRAMED 2020: A Festival of New Plays on Social Justice,” presented by Tulane University, the famed talk show host’s alma mater
Apparently, the out-of-context video went viral after being posted by Twitter user @marcisenberg. It shows Jerry Springer reading a will and seemingly claiming that the last wishes were the late TV host’s in reality.
“The best Jerry Springer episode ever is Jerry reading his own will He had 2 black children out of wedlock, wife threatens to expose, so he keeps it under wraps until he dies, then leaves all his money to the children he never met. What a legend,” is what @marcisenberg posted about the scene, according to sportskeeda.
In the video, Springer is seen/heard saying: “Joan kept me away from you with a threat of exposure. She did not keep me from providing for you. You see I told her that if I had to accept a life without you, she would not get a red cent of my fortune and you would be named equally in my will in the event of my passing. But with everything going on in the world right now I realize that I have to go a step further… I leave my home in New Orleans to you to do whatever you want.”
He continues: “The rest of my estate, my properties in Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, my bank account, my investment portfolios all liquid and in tangible assets everything, all of it, will go to my children John and Nisha.”
To say that viewers were gullible would be an understatement. Look:
Just so you know, Twitter was one of the first official sources to debunk the viral video. Jerry Springer did not read his will and announce that he wanted his assets to be divided among the children he had out of wedlock, because he did NOT have any children out of wedlock. Duh!
Jerry Springer passed away last month (April 2023) at the age of 79 after battling pancreatic cancer. He was best known for his show “The Jerry Springer Show” which ran from 1991 ’til 2021. He was married to Micki Velton until 1994. The couple had one daughter, Katie Springer.
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