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Levin went to the Los Angeles County sheriff’s department for confirmation. He was told that his account was “absolutely untrue.” But later that day he secured a copy of the original police report, which contained four pages, excised from the version on file, detailing Gibson’s anti-Semitic rant. The document supplied both evidence of Gibson’s bigotry and proof that the sheriff’s department had attempted to cover it up.
Four months later, Michael Richards, the former “Seinfeld” star, was performing at a comedy club in L.A. when he singled out an African-American in the crowd: “Fifty years ago, we’d have you upside down with a fucking fork up your ass.” One of Levin’s deputies, Evan Rosenblum, got a call from a college friend in the middle of the night. The friend had a sister, and one of her boyfriend’s buddies had been at the club and had recorded Richards’s outburst on a digital camera.
In less than a year, TMZ had become a dominant venue for celebrity news. “We were getting our asses kicked,” Brittain Stone, who wasphotography director from 2001 to 2011, said. “They were at police precincts, doing real beat reporting, and getting things like surveillance video.” In terms of photography, he said, “they were coming up with things that we would never touch: cell-phone pictures, video grabs, things that wouldn’t hold up in print.
Levin also maintained close relationships with defense attorneys. Many of them received free publicity on TMZ, and were referred to by cheeky nicknames. Laura Wasser, a divorce attorney, was the Disso-Queen. This nickname has appeared on TMZ hundreds of times. In October, 2011, Kim Kardashian, a Wasser client, filed to divorce Kris Humphries, the basketball player, after seventy-two days of marriage.
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