🚨 TMZ Reportedly Paid Police To LEAK Matthew Perry's Death

They reportedly did this BEFORE alerting his own family!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
In the wake of Matthew Perry's passing, there's been a
lot of finger pointing at TMZ about releasing the information
about his death before people close to him would have
known that he'd passed away.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Well in the way of this horrific world, here's how
TMC found out. TMZ paid a law enforcement officer for
the leak. So presumably his cast members, his family, his
friends heard this story through TMZ and not through official channels.
It's sickening, isn't it. This has been the way with

(00:35):
phone tapping, with the English press, with people in Scotland.
Yard ambulance officers have been on the books for so
many years. It goes back years and years. Marilyn Monroe JFK.
People have been on the books for when a juicy
story comes up, and so horrifically, this is how that
information was made public. And Wolf van Halen, who's Eddie
van Halen's son underneath this story, has said they paid

(00:57):
off people in the hospital where my father passed. I
couldn't even agree for twenty minutes. It's I said, scum.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
It's tough.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
It's tough.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
On a lighter note, though, on the upside to this,
if there is an upside The La Kings, Matthew Perry's
favorite ice hockey side. They on the organists, you know,
they got the organists there. They played the friends theme.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Oh that's sweet.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
The whole world seems to be heartbroken, and there's this
beautiful footage. It makes me cry. Everything makes me cry,
but this in particular is so beautiful. Charlie Pooth was
performing in Melbourne, has been this has gone viral all
over the world. Before he broke into his incredibly emotional
song see You Again from Fast and Furious.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
With Paul Walker after the death.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Of Paul Walker. This song made everyone hugely emotional. Before
he broke into that, he played this.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
I come in there for because you're there for me.

Speaker 5 (02:13):
About this spell? Oh she's a friend and I'll.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Tell you out of see wow, come along.

Speaker 5 (02:46):
Maybe this one's going to hurt for a long time.

Speaker 4 (02:51):
Is that.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
Let's see man?

Speaker 4 (02:56):
That is such a great song. I remember saying that
at the end of to the Furious. Just grown men
just sobbing when they whenever you hear Charlie Pooth, what
about this?

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Let's put this on from the Thief Friends, It's a
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