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More details about the untimely death of Brittany Murphy yesterday are being revealed.

This morning TMZ reported that the actress "was very ill in the hours before she went into cardiac arrest and died," and that "Murphy was taking prescription meds for flu-like symptoms she had been experiencing for several days."

Michael Jackson's new song is set to debut at midnight tonight on MichaelJackson.com, but TMZ released a leaked snippet of it early.

Don't believe the rumors: Matt Damon is alive and well.

A story was going around last week, citing TMZ as the source, that Damon had died in a camping accident. The weird thing is that TMZ never actually reported this story. It's totally made up.

The very much alive Damon has been making the rounds for his new movie The Informant, which will be in theatres on Friday.

Last night Zac Efron and his girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens sat courtside as the Lakers beat the Utah Jazz 113-100.

And who had the seat next to them?

TMZ boss Harvey Levin.

You know, the guy who pays people to chase after them with cameras and publishes things like V's naked photos.

Could they have been any more uncomfortable?

Harvey looks like he’s sitting in a dirty diaper, Zac’s wearing his sunglasses indoors and at night, and Vanessa has a smile plastered on her face so tight you couldn’t beat it off of her with a two by four.

Success!

On last Friday’s episode of TMZ (sorry, we’re a little behind on our DVR action) not only did they show our Hot Sauce obsession, they gave him an onscreen credit.

His name is officially Tyler, and he’s Harvey Levin’s assistant. Which explains why whenever we see him in the background on the show he looks like someone just kicked his puppy, and then poohed in his cereal.

At least, we think his name is Tyler…but we’re just gonna go ahead and call him "Baby Daddy" in the meantime.

We might not know his name, but here’s what we do know:

- He’s HOT!

- He’s Southern.

- He’s on TMZ and one time Harvey Levin yelled something to him and we’re pretty sure he called him “Tyler”.

- He was featured on the show for a few episodes and is now, inexplicably, relegated to the background.

- He blushes when he talks.

- He’s the reason we set a season pass for TMZ on our DVR.