Contrary to a Saturday night TMZ.com report, groundbreaking poet Maya Angelou was not hospitalized in Los Angeles over the weekend, CNN reported Sunday.

CNN news editor Saeed Ahmed shared this on Twitter this morning: “Contrary to TMZ report, Maya Angelou is fine, at home, & wasn’t even in LA Sat nite, said her literary agent Helen Brann.”

In fact, Maya Angelou is alive and well at her home in St. Louis.

TMZ’s Saturday night report — branded as an exclusive — was brief, saying that the story was developing.
The celebrity hunting hounds have gained a reputation for topping traditional news outlets with news of celebrity ailments, especially after famously reporting Michael Jackson’s death long before other outlets.

We’re so glad all is well with one of literature’s most “Phenomenal Women.”