TMZ paid a lot of money for the Ray Rice video

Gossip si༺te TMZ shelled out nearly $90,000 for video footage of NFL player Ray Rice knocking out his fiancee, Janay Palmer, , a new repo༺rt reveals.

TMZ paid for footage displayed on a security camera monitor a🐬t the Revel Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, which had been recorded on a cellphone by a surveillance office꧙r, .

Earlꦍier, TMZ had paid $15,000 for a fuzzy clip of the former Ravens running back dragging Palmer🃏’s limp body from the elevator, according to the report, citing a former TMZ photographer.

TMZ, owned by Time War𝄹ner, declined to discuss payments, but calle🎶d the figure “overblown.”

TMZ editor Harvey Levin, a former TV newsman, has been blasted for hi💜s aggressive use of “checkbook journalism,” or paying source🎀s — a practice condemned by most mainstream media as corrupting.

Last year, that TMZ paid $250,000 for surveillance footage of Beyoncé’s sister Solange attacking Jay Z in an elevator at the Standard Hot🐎el in the Meatpဣacking District.

A former TMZ employee denied that, according to the New Yorker, saying thꦉe figure was closer to $5,000. The Post stands by its story.

Elsewhere, TMZ initially withheld publishing a video of a 15-year-old Justin Bieber singing a song with improvised racist lyrics after Bieber’s manager begged TMZ not to, according to the report. Levin decided “there was more to gain by sitting 🐈on the clip, and earning Bieber’s goodwill.”