TMZ.com, the 16-month-old venture that has grown into an online behemoth by chronicling the antics of Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and other boldface names, is setting up shop in the nation's capital.
Harvey Levin, the former television reporter who started the operation, plans to launch the spinoff site in about a month. People familiar with the effort say that Levin plans to focus on the foibles of members of Congress, administration officials and media personalities.
TMZ spokeswoman Gillian Sheldon declined to discuss the details, saying only that ``big celebrities are everywhere--even outside of Hollywood.'' Levin has been meeting with people here in an effort to find a D.C. bureau chief and build a network of free-lancers who will contribute material for the new site, to be known as TMZDC.
Stern “can’t hide behind a fake birth certificate”
03/15/2007 12:12
A Los Angeles judge denied a motion by Smith’s former boyfriend asking that Smith’s partner would be forced to immediately give a sample of his DNA for the ongoing paternity case.
TMZ.com reported that photographer Larry Birkhead, the late model’s former boyfriend, one of the men who claim to be Smith’s baby’s father, asked a judge to make Howard K. Stern come to California and submit to DNA testing to determine exactly who Dannielynn Stern’s father really is.
After the hearing, Birkhead’s attorney, Debra Opri said she was confident that Stern, who is listed as the baby’s father in her birth certificate, would be made to come to California.
“Put up or shut up, that’s what we’re asking for,” Opri said. She also said Stern “can’t hide behind a fake birth certificate” and that his “feet will be held to the fire.”
However, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Robert A. Schnider denied Birkhead’s motion, but left the possibility that he could change his mind later this month, open. He asked instead that both sides would present their arguments during the next hearing which will take place in Los Angeles on March 28.
Associated Press reported that Ron Rale, a lawyer who had represented Smith argued against the DNA request, saying Stern’s name is already on the birth certificate as the father, Playfuls.com reported.
“Howard Stern doesn’t have to go to Larry Birkhead for anything,” Rale said.
Birkhead, for his part, said, “I’m just doing what I have to do for my daughter,” and that for him, holding Dannielynn for the first time in the Bahamas “was like being in the delivery room.”
Birkhead said he has made no agreement with Stern about the child.
“My daughter is not for sale,” he said.
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