SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame said a story that star Manti Te'o's girlfriend had died of leukemia — a loss he said inspired him all season and helped him lead the Irish to the BCS title game — turned out to be a hoax apparently perpetrated against the linebacker. The university issued a statement about a hoax Wednesday after Deadspin.com said it could find no record that Lennay Kekua ever existed. By Te'o's own account, she was an "online" girlfriend.
Story of Te'o girlfriend death apparently a hoax
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