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Richard Simmons is “perfectly fine,” according to Los Angeles police, despite stories circulating that his longtime absence from public life is due to a housekeeper holding him hostage.

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‘Melrose Place’ actress Amy Locane headed back to prison for fatal crash Authorities recently did a welfare check on the 68-year-old fitness guru and apparently were satisfied that he’s OK. Simmons hasn’t been seen in public since 2014, according to the Huffington Post.

A popular new podcast, called “Missing Richard Simmons,” by Dan Taberski, recently broadcast an interview with Simmons’ former assistant, who made the accusation of him being geld hostage.

Detective Kevin Becker said the allegation was “garbage.”

Obviously, he’s part of the conspiracy.

Or is he?

“There was something about his housekeeper holding him hostage and not allowing people to see him and preventing him from making phone calls, and it was all garbage, and that’s why we went out to see him,” Becker told People magazine. “None of it is true. The fact of the matter is, we went out and talked to him, he is fine, nobody is holding him hostage. He is doing exactly what he wants to do. If he wants to go out in public or see anybody, he will do that.”

“He is perfectly fine and he is very happy. I don’t know what he is going to do, but right now he is doing what he wants to do and it is his business.”