"I tell people all the time Adam Sandler died like 1,000 times with all these hoaxes, so I thought it was just one big hoax," Sacre said of learning about Kobe's death in an interview with ...

— Adam Sandler (@AdamSandler) June 26, 2025 Tibbetts died at the age of 74 on June 25. He suffered a brain aneurysm the day before, a longtime friend said in a Facebook post .

Need To Know. Adam Sandler honored his old friend Morris, the alligator actor in Happy Gilmore, in an Instagram post on May 14. Morris the gator died on May 11 at Colorado Gator Farm, his home of ...