TMZ Apologizes Over ‘Tone Deaf Laughter’ Amid Charlie Kirk Assassination, Insists It Was Just ‘Horrible Timing’

Charlie Nash Sep 11th, 2025, 2:02 am

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TMZ apologized on Wednesday evening for the “tone deaf laughter” and applause that could be heard in the background of their coverage of Charlie Kirk’s assassination , insisting that the noise had nothing to do with the killing.

In a video statement addressing the incident, TMZ founder Harvey Levin said:

We were livestreaming all day during this tragedy when something happened in our office. As we were reporting the assassination of Charlie Kirk, there were some people in the back room away from our news desk here who were watching a car chase and they were laughing, they were clapping, and you could hear it out here, an

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