If you go to google “Jon Bon Jovi,” the top suggestions are “Jon Bon Jovi wiki” followed by “Jon Bon Jovi dead” and “Jon Bon Jovi death.” I don’t know why people fall for those Internet rumors, but they do. My issue with them is that when a celebrity actually dies and it’s not of old age I usually don’t believe it at first, because the death rumors seem to be floating around all the time.

So this still quite hittable specimen, Jon Bon Jovi, was the victim of a false Internet death rumor started on Twitter, of all places, by some musician from Pennsylvania. The guy did an interview with the Ashbury Park Press admitting that he started the rumor after being annoyed by seeing Jon Bon Jovie in an Advil commercial. I guess he’s a struggling musician and was feeling frustrated, and he admitted as much and apologized.

In response to the death rumors, Bon Jovi tweeted the photo below showing that he’s very much alive. He’s also just as buff as ever at 49(!) Bon Jovi is one of the many celebrities in St. Barts for the holidays with his family. (See Kimora Lee Simmons and Djimon Hounsou.) He was there with his wife of 22 years, his high school sweetheart Dorothea Hurley, and their four kids: Stephanie, 18, Jesse, 16, Jacob, 9, and Romeo, 7. I don’t pay that much attention to Bon Jovi and didn’t realize he was such a family man. He’s also a philanthropist. He started a restaurant in Red Bank, New Jersey in October called the Soul Kitchen Community restaurant. People can either donate $10 for a meal or volunteer their time and get the meal for free. I visited the website and was really touched by the concept. So not only is Bon Jovi hot, he’s also a great guy. I have a new crush. Dude should stop messing with his face though. Also, is that a wiglet?

God, why has the gossip world been so slow the past few days? I guess Charlie Sheen’s crazy has plateau’d and Mel Gibson is being medicated and… there hasn’t been a good, juicy home wrecking in a while. Is that why it’s so damn slow? Case in point: When this next story was excerpted on HuffPo, it got more than a 1000 comments. That kind of commenting on an Entertainment story is usually reserved for stories about the Bermuda Triangle. Anyway, let’s get to it. Jon Bon Jovi hates Steve Jobs. JBJ hates iTunes, and he hates that no one just goes out and buys an album anymore. JBJ thinks Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music industry. And I think Bon Jovi is personally responsible for killing the sleeveless leather button-front blouse industry, what with his furry moobs.

Jon Bon Jovi has taken aim at Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, accusing him of “killing” the music industry with iTunes.

The rocker is saddened that the “magical” experience of buying records in a store is disappearing, brick-and-mortars stores being eroded in part due to iTunes’ success.

Bon Jovi tells The Sunday Times Magazine, “Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding the jacket, closing their eyes and getting lost in an album; and the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it.”

“God, it was a magical, magical time,” he continues, “I hate to sound like an old man now, but I am, and you mark my words, in a generation from now people are going to say: ‘What happened?’ Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business.”

[From MSN]

I used to be a Jon Bon Jovi-type, in that I would bemoan the rise of all of this completely unnecessary technology. And while I still think that Steve Jobs is an a–hole in general, and specifically for releasing the iPad 2 so quickly after the first iPad was released… well, now I’ve come around, in general. I like iTunes. I’m a drunk iTuner. I get my cocktail on and I download all of my music these days. And I think people who just downloaded Kesha’s “Blow” shouldn’t be throwing stones (casting side-eye at myself).

In my defense, though, “Blow” is a crazy good song to work out to.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Many celebrities have some skeletons in their closets. There’s the secret marriage you had quickly annulled, the dead hooker you threw into the river, and the time you kissed what you thought was a hot girl but was actually your neighbor’s miniature goat. Compared to all those (well documented, I’m sure) skeletons, Jon Bon Jovi selling a little pot back in the day doesn’t seem like a big deal. But it’s not like the guy gets much press anymore, so we’ll give him what he wants and loudly proclaim: Jon Bon Jovi used to be a drug dealer!

Jon Bon Jovi has revealed that he was a drug dealer as a teenager. The rocker, 45, admits he peddled cannabis in New Jersey before he found fame. ‘I did the drug thing very young and wised up very young too, because I was into drugs a little too much,’ he says. ‘I was entrepreneurial even then, buying quarter pounds of dope and trying to make a couple of bucks.’

But Jon insists his bad experience with drugs turned him off becoming a user. ‘Did you ever smoke dope that was laced with PCP and then have that whole summer of hallucinations? It was f*****g awful,’ he tells the Daily Mirror. ‘That’s why I’ve never been a drug guy. I’ve always felt I didn’t have the mental stability.’

[From Now Magazine]

Well Bon Jovi is known for nothing if not his bad hair and enterprising spirit. It’s kind of funny how he manages to make the whole thing sound good. “I sold pot but only because I was a good businessman.” “I didn’t actually use much of the stuff because I’m probably crazy.” Okay that’s not great, but at least it comes off as funny. A lot of celebrities are rather cagey when it comes to drug use, so at least he’s honest about it. That also explains a lot of his music. Not because it’s trippy and cool, it explains why it sucks. And the hair. I’m still upset about the hair. Once Bon Jovi has the testicular fortitude do apologize to America for his Farrah Fawcett hair, I can forgive and move on.

Picture note by Jaybird: Here’s Bon Jovi performing with Enrique Iglesias in Spain on June 23rd. Image thanks to PR Photos.