Harvey Levin

Harvey Levin serves as host and Executive Producer of TMZ and Managing Editor for TMZ.com. Harvey has guided TMZ to become one of the fastest growing and most successful online brands, and within seven months of its debut, it became the number one entertainment news website in the world.

Prior to TMZ, Harvey created and served as Executive Producer for the syndicated series Celebrity Justice. Prior to launching CJ, he served for 19 years as Co-Executive Producer and consultant for the television show The People’s Court, and he continues to host the interactive segments of the show. He spent more than a decade as the investigative reporter for KCBS-TV in Los Angeles and covered numerous high-profile court cases for a number of top CBS stations across the country, including affiliates in New York and Chicago. Harvey has received nine Emmy Awards and numerous other local and national awards. For seven years, Levin was a legal columnist for the Los Angeles Times.

Harvey, a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, began his career as a litigator at a Los Angeles law firm and has been a professor of law at three universities. He also served as a consultant for the American Bar Association.