Inside Diddy’s Trial: TMZ's Harvey Levin Breaks It Down with Ashleigh Banfield
Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield
Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield
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🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Harvey Levin’s Podcast & Docs:
2 Angry Men — Harvey Levin & Mark Geragos
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Tubi Docs from TMZ:
TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy – His Defense
TMZ Presents: O.J. How He Really Did It
TMZ Presents: UFO Revolution
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome back to Drop Dead Serious. I'm Ashley Vanfield, and I have such a treat for you today. |
| 0:10.8 | And I'm actually not sure if it's more of a treat for you or more of a treat for me. Because for a billion, zillion years, I have known Harvey Levin, the founder of TMZ. |
| 0:22.7 | Hey, go way back. |
| 0:24.1 | He's the founder of the People's Court. |
| 0:26.3 | Harvey and I have had a very, very long relationship, and I have always looked to Harvey as the model of how to create media business. |
| 0:35.9 | Whether you watch TMZ or whether you were into courtroom shows on daytime TV, |
| 0:41.7 | you know, Harvey started them all. |
| 0:44.0 | And he's also just a really astute guy. |
| 0:47.2 | Nothing gets past Harvey. |
| 0:49.7 | And one of the stories that he is really invested in is Sean Combs trial. |
| 0:55.2 | So I had an opportunity to sit down with Harvey for a very in-depth conversation, |
| 1:01.6 | not only about the trial, but the players, because let's face it, everybody knows TMZ |
| 1:07.3 | and TMZ knows everybody. They also tend to know everything. So with such an inside |
| 1:13.7 | track on so many of the issues that are going to be coming through that Diddy courtroom, I could not wait for this conversation. |
| 1:21.3 | So here we are with Harvey Levin. Harvey, the Diddy Jury, they hit the magic number, what, 45. |
| 1:29.7 | They've got 45 people that they can choose from and start, you know, using peremptory |
| 1:34.3 | strikes. |
| 1:35.1 | But the complaint that I'm hearing from insiders in the courtroom is that the 45 don't |
| 1:40.2 | look like Diddy. |
| 1:40.9 | They don't look like they're into hip-hop. |
| 1:42.4 | They don't reflect black culture. |
| 1:44.2 | Do you think this is a problem? |
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