Tom Cruise Dead ?

Tom Cruise Dead ? – Update : Tom Cruise’s reps have blasted a spoof Internet report that the actor is dead.

A story surfaced this morning which claimed the Top Gun hero had passed away after falling off a cliff top in New Zealand.

The ‘tragedy’ at Kauri Cliffs apparently occurred on the set of Tom’s new movie.

However the star – hubby of Tom Cruise and father of three – is alive and well, insists his baffled agent.

The bogus web report follows an identical hoax two years ago, which falsely claimed TOM HANKS had fallen to his death off the same cliff.

Tom Cruise may have been involved in a motorcycle accident at around 3 p.m. EST on March 7 in Los Angeles. He was heading south near the intersection of La Cienega Blvd. and Sherwood when a car ran through a stop sign in front of him. According to two eyewitnesses who spoke to HollywoodLife.com, Tom leaned to the left and his red Ducati bike slid forward into a brown SUV, denting the SUV’s back tires. Five people helped Tom pick himself up and get the bike on its side. The bike’s gears were damaged on the left side. From there, Tom immediately ran to the sidewalk (two eyewitnesses say he was slightly limping.) Tom sat outside KOI Restaurant on La Cienega Blvd., where he made two phone calls and waited 30 minutes for paramedics to arrive, we were told by two separate witnesses to the accident.

Though he refused to be taken to a hospital, claiming he was fine, we’re told Tom spoke with police and the man driving the brown SUV that his motorcycle hit. When we approached the man involved in the accident, he would not give his name but said, “Tom asked me not to talk about this, but I’m fine.”