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Even facts can be gossip, I think it depends on how the story is spread as well as the intentions of the people spreading it.
I think we define gossip as relating events from other people's lives that don't concern you or them directly. Specifically people in our social groups.
Malicious gossip is when the information, true or untrue, was disseminated for the purpose of hurting someone, or the information itself is genericaly hurtful. "Did you hear that Clarissa used to have sex with her brother?"
I am not sure that either of those definitions really cover it. There is an aura of frivolity or malice around the word gossip.
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