Overview
- After learning friends were planning a surprise party, she arranged a mock funeral at her New York City penthouse.
- Guests were led downstairs to find her lying motionless in a coffin in a room dressed as a funeral parlor with nuns, priests and rabbis.
- She remained still for about ten minutes as attendees shared candid tributes and criticisms, believing she had died.
- She later sprang from the coffin in a red Carolina Herrera gown and danced to Diana Ross’s “I’m Alive!” before posting photos to Instagram.
- Confusion spread beyond the party, with her doorman telling her the next morning that social media was reporting she had died.