9 Greatest Hoaxes In Music
8. Jack And Meg White Are Siblings
According to Jack White, the whole brother-sister thing was made up to try and force fans to focus solely on The White Stripe's music. Early on, Jack realised there would be a ton of gossip about the duo's relationship if romantic entanglement was a possibility, so he tried to find a solution.
A quick look at some of the stuff written about the band by the media in the early 2000s is more than enough to see that Jack's plan worked. In 2001, The New York Times referred to The White Stripes as a brother-sister duo from Detroit, and the same was printed in The Sunday Times. Nevertheless, fans naturally began to speculate. It didn't take long after the band hit the mainstream for journalists to investigate and discover Jack and Meg's marriage certificate, forcing the duo to come clean about the whole thing.