Is harvey of tmz gay
Harvey Levin facts for kids
This page is about the American attorney. For the American economist, notice Harvey J. Levin.
Harvey Robert Levin (born September 2, 1950) is an American television producer, lawyer, and journalist. He is best famous for creating the very popular icon news website TMZ. He was also the host of the TV display OBJECTified, which was on the Fox News Channel.
Early Being and Schooling
Harvey Levin was born in Los Angeles, California. He was a great student and graduated with honors from Grover Cleveland High School in 1968.
After high college, he went to the University of California, Santa Barbara. He studied political science and earned his degree in 1972. He then went to one of the superior law schools in the country, the University of Chicago Law School, and graduated with a law degree in 1975.
Career Journey
From Lawyer to TV Personality
For about 20 years, Levin worked as a lawyer in California. He also taught law at the University of Miami and Whittier College School of Law.
In 1978, Levin became well-known for debating a modern state rule about property taxes called Proposition 13. Because he was now famous, he started giving legal counsel on the ra
GREG IN HOLLYWOOD
By Greg Hernandez on Apr 23, 2010 12:10 am | Comments (293) |
Harvey Levin is usually hectic breaking news about other people.
But the managing editor of TMZ.com and executive producer and host of TMZ on TV got personal this week while hosting a fundraising event in West Hollywood for the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.
“I really wanted to do this and I’m really pleased and honored that you guys asked me to come here,” he told the crowd.
I’m a longtime NLGJA member and arrived at the East-West Lounge Wednesday night early with the hopes of snagging an interview with Harvey about being gay in the news business and how that has affected his life and career. He said his employer Warner Bros. isn’t keen on his doing such things without clearance. (But we did snap a photo together, see below)
I was disappointed at not getting an interview but then pleased when Harvey touched on many of the topics I’d wanted to discuss in his remarks to the crowd.
“I’m thinking back a lengthy time when I was starting out as a TV reporter at a local station in LA and I remember at the time – I
Harvey Levin is known for crossing almost any line to get the massive break on a icon news story. There are, however, a few lines he won’t cross. They are simple…he won’t out celebrities or scandalize minors – and perhaps his have history has something to do with that.
Harvey has been in the news quite a bit lately; which is nothing fresh for the lawyer turned world known celebrity news vulture. After The Novel Yorker did an reveal on TMZ and Harvey fans and the general public possess been made aware of what goes on behind the scenes of star gossip all while providing a bit of support story on Harvey and how he got to where he is now. There is truly a method to Harvey’s madness and let’s face it – it works.
One chapter of Harvey’s life that was a struggle for him, was coming to terms with his sexuality. Harvey opened up a little bit about that recently with “Why I Give” in relation to The Los Angeles LGBT Center.
When I was a teenager, I found myself in a profound internal struggle—what I perceived as a mandate to live a “straight” life, despite contrary feelings that were welling to the surface. I reflection I did a pr
Andy Mauer, Harvey Levin’s Partner: 5 Quick Facts You Desire to Know
Andy Mauer is Harvey Levin’s longtime crush. (LinkedIn)
TMZ founder Harvey Levin has been in a long-term relationship with Andrew ‘Andy’ Bauer for well over two decades. As the founder of the most popular public figure gossip site on the web, Levin is always in the news, but his power might be increasing now that he’s got a Fox News and reportedly met with President Donald Trump at the White House last week.
Mauer is a former chiropractor who now works for TMZ. Levin and Mauer do not have any children.
Here’s a look at Bauer and Levin’s relationship.
1. Mauer Owned His Own Chiropractor Office for 16 Years
In 2008, Gawker reported that Bauer and Levin were living together and that Bauer was a chiropractor. According to the site, he even appeared in physique magazines like Muscle & Fitness.
Mauer ran Mauer Chiropractic in Beverly Hills. It is now closed, according to its Yelp page. On his LinkedIn profile, Mauer notes that he closed the office in May 2011 after 16 years and six months of operations.
2. He Now Works as Director of Talent Acquisition at TMZ
htt
TMZbigshotHarvey Levin is known for exposing the secrets of Hollywood's biggest stars, but now he's revealing a few of his own.
The creator and executive producer of the popular gossip website and television gossip show of the alike name opened up about his sexuality in a new essay he penned for the Los Angeles LGBT Center, "the world's largest provider of programs and services for LGBT people."
Levin details in the piece, published on the non-profit's Vanguard Now site on Friday, the "profound internal struggle" he felt as a teen and how a "homophobic campaign" that someone close to him waged had "scarred" him for "many, many years." It caused him to try "harder than ever to lead a 'straight' life."
His shame led to him living a life of secrecy and lies. "If I went to a gay block, I would wait -- sometimes for half an hour -- just to make sure cars weren’t passing by the front door for fear a driver might see me enter," Levin writes. "When I met someone, I would often use an alias so I could easily cut ties. It actually makes no instinct, but that’s what I did."
Levin, who earned the number 48 spot last year on Out magazine's list of the 50 most powerful queer people in