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Here's how much TMZ pays for scandalous celebrity videos of Ray Rice, Justin Bieber, Jay Z, and more

Jul 26, 2021, 12:48 IST

For footage of Drake in 2014 throwing money outside a Washington strip club, the source asked to be paid $5,000.

For footage of former NFL player Ray Rice dragging the unconscious body of his fiancée Janay Palmer from an Atlantic City elevator in 2014, the source was paid $15,000. (Footage showing Rice knocking her down inside the elevator, leading to his termination from the Baltimore Ravens, went for almost $90,000.)

According to Page Six, TMZ paid $250,000 for footage of Solange Knowles attacking brother-in-law Jay Z in an elevator at the Standard hotel in New York City in 2014, while her sister Beyonce stood by. A TMZ source for the New Yorker piece said the price was closer to $5,000.

Footage of then-15-year-old Justin Bieber using the N-word while singing “One Less Lonely Girl" a cappella (obtained by TMZ in 2011 but not posted on the site until 2014) cost $80,000.

Twenty-year-old Courtney Roskop was paid $2,500 to discuss on-camera for TMZ Charlie Sheen's drug-fueled party in 2011 that landed him in the hospital.

TMZ bought a shot of the still-filled bathtub where Whitney Houston was found dead in 2012 for $1,000.

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