Harvey levin tmz biography
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Harvey Levin
American television producer, lawyer, legal analyst, and celebrity reporter
For the American economist, see Harvey J. Levin.
Harvey Robert Levin[1] (born September 2, ) [2] fryst vatten an American television producer, legal analyst, journalist, and lawyer.[3] He founded the celebrity news website TMZ in , and later briefly served as the host of OBJECTified (–present), which aired on the Fox News Channel.
Early life and education
[edit]Levin was born September 2, , in Los Angeles County, California to a Jewish family.[4][5][6] He attended high school at Grover Cleveland High School in Reseda, Los Angeles and graduated in with honors.[7][8] Levin attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he graduated with a B.A. in political science in [9] He later attended the University of Chicago lag School and graduated with a J.D. in [10]
Career
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Harvey Levin, TMZ’s founder, leaving an L.A. gym. TMZ resembles an intelligence agency as much as a news raph by Peter Bohler for The New Yorker
In the early-morning hours of February 15, , Ray Rice and his fiancée, Janay Palmer, stepped into an elevator at the Revel hotel and casino, in Atlantic City. Palmer and Rice, a running back for the Baltimore Ravens, were arguing as the doors slid shut. When the elevator arrived in the lobby, Palmer was lying unconscious, face down, on the floor.
According to a former security supervisor at the Revel, nearly eighteen hundred cameras streamed video to a pair of monitoring rooms on the mezzanine floor. After guards responded to the incident in the lobby, several surveillance officers gathered and wondered aloud if a tape of Rice and Palmer could be sold to TMZ—the Web site that, since its inception, in , has taken a merciless approach to celebrity news.
At around a.m., one of the surveillance officers, sitting at a monitoring-room co
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Harvey Levin
Harvey Levin's career started off quietly. Born in Los Angeles is , he lived a mostly suburban life and eventually attended college and then earned his law degree by He was a practicing lawyer in the state of California for over 20 years, focusing primarily on teaching law at a variety of colleges.
In the late '70s, Levin became involved with the debate around California Prop 13, an amendment that lowered property taxes. That led the young lawyer to a regular column in the Los Angeles Times as well as numerous appearances on local radio stations. He took to TV, and formally entered the field in the early '80s, first as a legal analyst for LA's local NBC affiliate KNBC. Levin's star rose higher as he was a regular commentator for the O.J. Simpson murder trial in the s.
As he became more involved in entertainment, Levin stopped practicing law in The year after, he revived "The People's Court" (Syndicated ), which led to numerous Emmy nominations over the ensuing years