This tweet was posted by Spike Lee on Wednesday evening.

Film director Spike Lee has apologized to a Florida couple and agreed to pay their expenses for fleeing their home after they were harassed when he retweeted an address that was described as the home of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain who shot Trayvon Martin.

"Spike Lee did the right thing," the couple’s lawyer, Matt Morgan, tweeted. "The McClain’s claim is fully resolved. Thank you Spike!!!"

David and Elaine McClain, a couple in their 70s whose home is about four miles from where Martin was killed, told CNN that besides apologizing as they requested, Lee agreed to pay the cost of them having to leave their home temporarily.

No dollar amount was revealed. Elaine McClain described the apology as sincere.

The mistake by Lee, who has 250,000 Twitter followers, forced the McClains to flee to a hotel when reporters and hate mail began showing up at their home.

Elaine McClain has a son named William George Zimmerman who previously lived at the address.

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"He definitely owes a big apology," McClain told the Orlando Sentinel on Wednesday. "All this is really scary and it's a shame. There's no reason they put our address out there without checking to see who lived there."

Late Wednesday, Lee made the apology via Twitter, saying he deeply apologized and urged people to "leave the McClain's [sic] in Peace." 

Some Twitter members have been sending Lee angry and often racist tweets in response to his sharing of the address, many of which he has retweeted.

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Chaka Khan, with the help of a handful of musicians and actors, has put together a remake of her track "Super Life" in honor of Trayvon Martin.

Khan premiered the video Monday night on "Piers Morgan Tonight," where she told the host, "We are sick and tired in America of seeing little children lost and children gone missing and they never make the 9 o'clock or the 5 o'clock news."

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The "Super Life" video includes appearances from Eric Benet, Kelly Price, Kenny Lattimore, Angela Bassett, Terry Crews and Boris Kodjoe, all of whom are clad in hoodies, the same article of clothing Martin was wearing when he was killed by community watch captain George Zimmerman. "Super Life" originally appeared on Khan's 2007's album "Funk This." The tribute version includes a new refrain: "Fear kills, love heals."

On her website Khan wrote, "The death of Trayvon Martin was a shot heard around the world. Celebrities are privileged beyond belief to have a public following... As purveyors of content and media, we need to use our voices to stop injustice at the site of its origin."

She urged people to use the Twitter hashtag #fearkillsloveheals to show their support.

What do you think of the song? Let us know over on Facebook.

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A fake tweet attributed to Will Smith that connected the killing of Florida teen Trayvon Martin to the flour bombing of Kim Kardashian has gone viral on Twitter.

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The alleged tweet says "WE live in America where a girl that threw flour on Kim Kardashian was arrested on site. But the man who KILLED Trayvon Martin is still free."

A screenshot of the tweet has also circulated attributing it to the account of @RealWillSmith and including a picture of the actor.  The account @RealWillSmith actually belongs to a white man from Nashville, TN.

The real Will Smith does not have a publicly known Twitter and there is no record of him saying the quote.  Among the people who have retweeted the fake Smith quote are Spike Lee, Rosie O'Donnell and Omarosa.

This is not the first fake tweet associated with the killing of Trayvon Martin. The @RealFerrelWill twitter account tweeted "R.I.P. Trayvon Martin," they wrote. "For every R-T this tweet gets, $1 will be donated to the #TrayvonMartin Foundation, which helps counteract racism." Hundreds of people retweeted the offer, including Parks and Recreation star Aziz Ansari, before they realized it was a fake.

Seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot by George Zimmerman a neighborhood watch captain in Sanford, Florida, on February 26. Zimmerman reported to police that Martin looked suspicious. Police advised him to stay back but he approached Martin. A confrontation ensued and Zimmerman shot Martin. The teen was unarmed and simply returning from a quick trip to a nearby convenience store.

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Zimmerman claimed he shot Martin in self-defense and though he contradicted police orders to stay back was not charged for murder or even manslaughter under Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law, which allows a threatened person to use force to defend themselves.

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After civil rights leaders called attention to the case, it became a national controversy, with President Obama saying, "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon."

In the wake of the national attention, Florida officials reopened the investigation into Zimmerman and appointed a new prosecutor. The FBI and federal Justice Department also announced investigations.

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Separately, Kim Kardashian was “flour bombed” at an event at the London West Hollywood Hotel where she was promoting her new fragrance, True Reflection.

A woman dumped a bag of flour on Kardashian in the hotel lobby. The woman’s motivation was unclear though it appeared to be a prank.  The woman was detained at the scene by West Hollywood police and released. Kardashian has said she is considering pressing charges against her.

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