They can say anything they want now: the dead cannot sue for libel. Of course, that isn't limited to him or to that charge: a headline "Nation Mourns Beloved Drug Dealer" could legally, if embarrassingly, be written about any dead celebrity, regardless of the facts or even previous rumors or lack thereof.
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Date: 2009-06-27 12:25 pm (UTC)