How TMZ Broke News Of Michael Jackson’s Death One Year Ago
June 25, 2009 started off as an ordinary day in the L.A. offices of TMZ. In fact, when TMZ got its first tip at around 1 p.m. PST that Michael Jackson was being taken to the hospital, “it was not that alarming,” recalls Harvey Levin, explaining the singer had “been taken to the hospital many times before” for non-life threatening ailments.
Gossip Cop spoke to Levin about that fateful afternoon — exactly one year ago today — because it was TMZ’s executive producer and his team who broke the worldwide exclusive of Michael Jackson’s shocking death at the age of 50.
“We didn’t think it was a life/death thing,” says a Levin, until he received the next tip that Jackson had gone into full cardiac arrest.
And that’s when a “minor” Michael Jackson hospitalization piece turned into a “huge story.”
Read the full interview at GossipCop.com
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