This is a tactic some editors use to put rumors into Wikipedia, and I'm not saying you were aware of that or doing it consciously or in bad faith. But it's well-established that we can't sneak in a rumor in with the excuse that, "Well, the rumor was reported in a reliable source!"  I'd also note that WP:RS doesn't mean that all reliable sources are reliable all the time, as in this textbook case: "Reports" about someone's private life cited to anonymous, unnnamed, unattributed "sources."