Did TMZ Blackmail Justin Bieber?

Gawker is posting that TMZ has had the videos of Bieber dropping N bombs for over 4 years now, and held on to them. According to “multiple sources” Bieber and his camp have been giving TMZ special access and gossip scoops in exchange for TMZ keeping the videos unreleased.

“TMZ has been sitting on this video for 3+ years,” one source, who worked with TMZ at the time the video came into the publication’s hands, told us, “and have been using it as essentially ransom so that Bieber and his team would cooperate with them and give them scoops. It was very close to being released initially, but his team was able to convince them not to by giving them access and compliance.” A TMZ spokesperson denied that the company agreed to suppress the tape in exchange for access, calling the allegation “absolutely not true.”

But now, TMZ has finally decided to release them. What’s the world come to when a beacon of journalistic integrity like TMZ gets dragged into a blackmail scandal?

Read more at gawker.com.

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