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Harvey Weinstein may have been fired illegally by The Weinstein Company, a company that wrote a contract that said Weinstein could get sued over and over for sexual harassment and as long as he shelled out money, that was good enough for the Company. TMZ is privy to Weinstein's 2015 employment contract, which says if he gets sued for sexual harassment or any other "misconduct" that results in a settlement or judgment against TWC, all Weinstein has to do is pay what the company's out, along with a fine, and he's in the clear. According to the contract, if Weinstein...

EXCLUSIVE: There are rumblings at the highest executive levels that AT&T’s top executives are considering divesting some Time Warner assets — including news organization CNN and celebrity gossip site TMZ — after they merge. AT&T expects the Justice Department to approve its $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner, and for the deal to close, by year end. The telco has already named longtime exec John Stankey to be CEO of AT&T’s media properties. He’s leading the Time Warner Merger Integration Planning Team, working with Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes. CBS has long had its eye on CNN. The broadcast company’s...

'Trusted names in news are not trusted anymore' A couple of months ago, TMZ founder Harvey Levin met with Donald Trump at the White House. If you heard about it, you probably caught a whiff of the left-wing outrage it engendered. If the Trump-hating ideologues are to be believed, everyone who deals with Trump is a turncoat to the cause, the American people, and the human race.

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In another sign 2016 is a year unlike any other, President-elect Donald Trump has teamed up with TMZ creator Harvey Levin for a TV special. Instead of stopping Trump at an airport like TMZ does with other celebrities and politicians, Levin got a tour of the president-elect's Trump Tower suite.

Trump Tower -- the place Donald Trump calls home and work -- is being protected by a line of dump trucks all filled with sand ... and the endgame is to prevent terrorist attacks. NYC Dept. of Sanitation vehicles showed up early Tuesday, forming a barrier to minimize an attack with explosive devices ... law enforcement tells TMZ. A Dept. of Sanitation spokesperson tells us they've also got trucks set up at The Peninsula Hotel, Hilton Hotel and Javits Center for the same purpose.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: From our old buddy Harvey Levin at TMZ. "NBC Planned to Use the Trump Audio to Influence the Debate and the Election."This was posted about ten o'clock this morning. "NBC exec[utive]s," NBC EXECUTIVES who used to work with Trump on his TV show The Apprentice, former Trump broadcast partners, executives at NBC "had a plan to time the release of the Donald Trump audio to have maximum impact on both the [second] presidential debate and the general election ... sources connected with the network tell TMZ. "Multiple sources connected with NBC tell [TMZ] top network execs knew...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Listen to this. This is Harvey Levin, TMZ. This is the Gen X and Millennial generations' top-five networks. It's the gossip network. They find scandal about public... Oh. You know, I'm surprised there's any news at all today. Have you heard this? Well, it's no big deal to me, but I'm surprised that the networks haven't shut down. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, it's not working. It's sayonara. It's kaput. It's just the end of everything a lot of people have believed in, and you know what the supposed dispute is over? As she has grown older,...

Hot on the heels of Glamour making the Jenner formerly known as Bruce their woman of the year it's clear this crap is and has been insane and totally out of hand. Now liberal Hollywood want us to choose who he (yes, he...because he STILL has a PENIS) looks more attractive than... What TMZ has done is pretty cruel, because it's pretty much unanimous against Jenner, as it should be. Most comments are nowhere near polite about it. Looks like the liberal media attempts to ramrod this stuff as "normal" down our collective neck hasn't been working so well. Click...

Two interesting comments from Hulk Hogan -- he's NOT mad with the WWE for cutting ties with him over the N-word ... and says he wants to make America great again, by running with Donald Trump!!!!

A former co-star of Christopher Reeve's ripped the "Superman" actor in a recent interview, according to TMZ. Jack O'Halloran, the actor who played the mute villain Non in "Superman II," said some harsh things about his late co-star when a TMZ cameraman ran into him recently in Southern California, calling Reeve a prima donna who "believed his own publicity."

The gutless and ever political Barack Obama and his Party are handling the Ebola crisis the way Lindsay Lohan’s lawyers and PR people would. They are playing the same games with who gets quarantined and for how long that Lohan’s “people” play every time she is arrested on drug charges. In the PC “pop culture” world Democrats operate in, no one except conservatives are guilty of anything. So when a Hollywood star or sports figure is caught snorting coke the first thing liberals want to do is develop a rationale for not putting them through the system. Liberals rush to...

Can Supernanny save Adrian Peterson??? She thinks so ... and now TMZ Sports has learned Jo Frost has reached out the to NFL offering to help the embattled running back.

Four sources close to Ray Rice have told ESPN [link at URL] that the former Ravens running back acknowledged to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell during the league's investigation that he punched Janay Rice in an Atlantic city elevator, knocking her unconscious. If that is the case, it would seem to contradict Goodell's statement to CBS this week that Rice's account of the February assault in the Revel casino to investigators was 'ambiguous'. "Ray didn't lie to the commissioner," one of the sources said on ESPN's "outside the Lines." "He told the full truth to Goodell - he made it clear...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Then of course there is the Ray Rice situation with the NFL and the announcement by Harvey Levin, who is the new Walter Cronkite in this country. You know who Harvey Levin is, Mr. Snerdley? He's the founder and the CEO of TMZ. He's the new Walter Cronkite. Trust me. He has replaced Jon Stewart as the official supplier of news with credibility for the low-information crowd. They released the video of Ray Rice decking his fiancee in that elevator, and last night Harvey Levin said we're gonna post tomorrow morning, meaning today, evidence that we believe...

Did the NFL suspend Ray Rice indefinitely after he was given an initial 2 game suspension because A.) they saw the video inside the elevator, or B.) because we saw the inside-the-elevator video? If it is because of A, then why did they formulate a 6 game suspension to be followed by banning for a second offense and not apply the 6 game rule to Ray Rice? If this is because the inside-the-elevator video surfaced, then will the NFL have a system for those who are caught by video and those not caught by video? In the end, IMHO, Ray...

Actor Jonah Hill has been filmed hitting out at a photographer with a highly offensive homophobic slur. The 30-year-old can be heard insulting a man who comments on his shorts in a video obtained by TMZ. Jonah, who is currently starring in 22 Jump Street, appears to become frustrated after being mocked for his floral board shorts and retorts: ‘Suck my d***, you f*****!’ ...when one photographer tells him ‘I like the shorts though, bro. They are pretty sexy’, it appears to become too much for him and after roughly another 40 seconds he turns and uses the highly offensive...

So how long until he gets the Donald Sterling treatment?

A former writer for TMZ filed a lawsuit Friday against the company for sexual discrimination, harassment, retaliation and wrongful termination. The suit stated that Catherine “Taryn” Hillin, who was employed by TMZ as a producer for approximately a year-and-a-half from Feb. 2012 to Sept. 2014, was the only female writer on the celebrity news website's staff. Hillin alleges that she was quickly advised that TMZ was a “boys club” favoring male employees over female employees, with one employee telling her, “Good luck being a girl writer.” The suit goes on to cite specific examples of discriminatory comments by executive producer...