evidence: Did actor Vin Diesel die in a backyard stunt fail? No, that's not true: This is a click-bait death hoax that leads anyone who clicks on the link to a porn site. Diesel is not dead. The death claim appeared in a post, which we will not link to here, shared on Facebook under the title "H0LLYW00D ACT0R, professionaIIy known as Vin Diesel, died in a backyard stunt fail CNN NEWS". It read: [...] In addition to that there was a video player on the site that appeared to show a CNN announcement about Diesel's death but it was actually old footage of the announcement of the death of actor Paul Walker.