By now you've probably heard about Pop Fiction, the new E! show in which totally crazy Hollywood prankster Ashton Kutcher enlists his famous friends to punk paparazzi and gullible media outlets. The show doesn't premiere until this Sunday, but we're starting to wonder whether we've already been made the fool.

Back in February, we bought into reports that a bartender at downtown Manhattan nightclub Socialista, where Kutcher was celebrating his 30th birthday party with the likes of Demi Moore, Madonna, and Bruce Willis, had a "raging" case of hepatitis-A, prompting the Health Department to offer up free vaccination shots to attendees. The story wasn't so outlandish as to raise flags at the time; now, in light of Pop Fiction producer Jason Goldberg's claim that "media outlets have been duped into reporting false stories about celebrities in recent months," we're not so sure.

An official at the city's Department of Health tells Radar that they did indeed visit Socialista after being called by the club to investigate the hep-A scare. "After arriving, we found that there was no soap behind the bar, which is why we decided to offer up hep-A vaccinations to all party-goers," the rep says. "I can assure you that someone did have hepatitis, and that he was working the bar the night of Kutcher's party. You can't fake hepatitis-A." True ... unless you're Ashton Fucking Kutcher.