On Saturday, at around 8:30pm, Star magazine sent an email blast to blogs and entertainment media types announcing its major exclusive: Earlier that day, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, despite assurances they wouldn't marry until the gays could too, tied the knot in New Orleans. Then industry denier Us Weekly took action, calling the other outlets liars and furiously searching old interviews of the two to print quotes of them talking about marriage. Even People got in on the rebuttals.

And now, when you visit Star's original item, it's been updated to say, "After further investigation, the sources are not standing by their story. Brad and Angelina's reps have not commented." Over at OK!, they're smartly breaking down how the rumor got started, smartly distracting you from any of their own reporting errors.

But the real irony in all of this? That Star magazine got caught up in the "Brangelina are getting married!" game that's been the bread and butter of Bauer's In Touch and Life & Style for months. Neither of those tabloids, however, bothered to confirm or refute the story on their own sites.