Trump Grants Oval Office Meeting to TMZ Founder -<br />By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUMMARCH 7, 2017<br />Since Inauguration Day, President Trump has spent his time meeting with heads of<br />state, titans of industry, economic advisers and public health specialists.<br />But he and Mr. Levin have some history: The TMZ chieftain interviewed Mr. Trump<br />for a Fox News special, “Objectified: Donald Trump,” that aired last fall.<br />Mr. Levin, according to two people with direct knowledge of the visit, broached the possibility of Mr. Trump<br />sitting for another interview on his new Fox News series, “Objectified,” a spinoff from last fall’s special.<br />Mr. Trump, in a meeting last Wednesday that went unmentioned on his public schedule, spent about an hour in the Oval Office chatting with Harvey Levin, the tabloid emperor whose Los Angeles-based news site<br />and television show are leading purveyors of gossip and scandal.<br />One of Mr. Levin’s ideal guests is Tom Brady, the New England Patriots quarterback<br />and a friend of Mr. Trump, and Mr. Levin planned to ask the president if he would help secure the athlete’s participation, according to one of the people who described the visit.
