The online/television tabloid just continues firing on zero cylinders.

With one executive being fired for horrible behavior, they have decided to make it old home week by hiring the same person who left the company before after being accused of plying her employees with drugs and alcohol and then having s.e.x. with them.

Eventually someone will take notice of all these blinds and swoop in and report exactly what I have been saying for a long time.

TMZ

TMZ’s Harvey Levin & Warner Bros Hit With Discrimination & Retaliation Action Over Outlet’s Alleged “Sexist & Misogynistic” Culture

A former TMZ production assistant and on-air contributor filed a federal discrimination and retaliation complaint Tuesday against Harvey Levin and Warner Bros Entertainment that could lead to a lawsuit down the line.

“Ms. Zilio, along with her female colleagues, was belittled and abused, held to different and more stringent standards, excluded from business and social interactions in which only male employees participated, denied advancement opportunities, and retaliated against when she resisted the sexist and misogynistic ways,” claims the action (read it here) from the former employee, Bernadette Zilio, with the the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing.

Zilio was an employee of Levin’s EHM Productions from 2015 to February 28 of this year.

In the complaint, Zilio and her Wigdor LLP and Girard Bengali Apc attorneys detail the culture at the celebrity gossip outlet and sister site TooFab, where Zilio served as an associate producer, as a “boys’ club,” “100% a bro fest” and a “[f]reaking frat house.” And, they say when Zilio tried to go through corporate channels to do something about how she and other women were being treated, she was punished, pink-slipped and threatened.

“In addition to the discriminatory work environment, Ms. Zilio’s complaints on behalf of herself and her female colleagues about the unlawful treatment were met with retaliatory discipline and abuse,” the 27-page filing states. “Incredibly, Ms. Zilio was terminated within a few days of Warner Bros. and EHM’s Human Resources telling Ms. Zilio that it rejected her complaints about the sexist and misogynist treatment, and instead accepted the excuses her male supervisors gave for the differential treatment.” – Source

Drama! Top TMZer (Mike Walters) Leaves to Start New Site; Taking Staffers with Him

*Well now, this is interesting. We can only wonder what led to this turn of events.

We’re talking about the fact that TMZ head man, Harvey Levin, has lost 3 of his top people to a new rival site called TheBlast.com.

We guess it shouldn’t come as a surprise … that is if you saw Page Six‘s report back in January that Levin’s longtime No. 2, Mike Walters, had quit to start his own operation.

On Monday, Walters announced he’s launched TheBlast.com, and we hear a raft of TMZ alums, including former top-tier staff Gary Trock and Daniel Goldblatt, are manning Walters’ new site.

“Mike, Gary and Daniel were Harvey’s senior, senior staff for many years,” said a source, while another said that all the TMZ vets have worked for at least one other publication since leaving the celebrity news site.

Founding TMZ staffer Goldblatt had served as executive director of digital programming and Trock — now managing editor of the Blast — served as a senior producer.

Meanwhile, in a New York Times story on Wednesday announcing the launch, Walters said his team was made up of “journalists from places like People, the Daily Mail and MSNBC.”

Page Six reminds Walters that he didn’t mention that the core is almost entirely staff who trained under Levin, including Walters’ sister Liz Walters, on-air reporter/associate producer Caitlyn Becker, producer Ryan Naumann, creative director Josh Wells and publicist Carolyn Fenton. – Source

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