Did Disney offer a $60 million deal to dozens of celebrities to produce a documentary about Charlie Kirk, which they all turned down, including the widow of the late conservative activist, Erika Kirk? No, that's not true: None of that is real. The posts were an example of copypasta, which is a batch of text copied and pasted repeatedly on social media and internet sites. Those entries on social media used identical fragments of text combined with names of different celebrities. Besides Erika Kirk, the list of persons claimed to have rejected the made-up proposal included Alice Cooper, Cat Stevens, Eminem and even Prince William.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on Facebook, where it was published on October 19, 2025. It opened:
'Shocking: Erika Kirk Says 'No' to Walt Disney's $60 Million Deal to Promote and Produce Documentary About Charlie Kirk's Legacy'.'$60 million? Keep It!' -- Erika Kirk unexpectedly turns down a huge contract; she could have traded for luxury, but instead, she chose loyalty: 'My husband is dead, let him rest in peace.' 'I don't care about money,' Erika Kirk said in the interview. 'I hope people will always support him, this city, and our family. America gave me a chance, and I will give it all back. I am part of something bigger than a paycheck.'Details in the comments
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This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at facebook.com/girlsdresses1.)
The article (archived here) shared in the entry began with a sentence suggesting that the rumor did not come from a reputable journalistic organization:
May be an image of one or more people, blonde hair and text that says 'AM REJECTS $60 MILLION'.
Searches on Google News (archived here) and Yahoo News (archived here) did not show credible media reports confirming the claim.
The article claimed that Erika Kirk made the statement publicly, before the press, but a search (archived here) for the exact words attributed to her yielded no results.
A search across Facebook revealed that the article's keywords have been reused multiple times in social media posts. Those entries repeated the same language, but a celebrity rejecting a supposed Disney offer would be different in different variations of the claim reviewed in this article, as the GIF below illustrates:
(Source: Lead Stories screen grab of posts at facebook.com and edited into a GIF.)
