Here's how much TMZ pays for scandalous celebrity videos of Ray Rice, Justin Bieber, Jay Z, and more

A new exposé by The New Yorker about TMZ reveals many of the gossip empire's secrets to how it gets scoops.

For a big one? TMZ spends a lot of money, from small bribes for limo drivers and hotel employees to get info, to larger sums exchanged for earth-shattering footage of famous people doing wrong.

Here we highlight how much TMZ paid for some of its biggest scoops, according to The New Yorker story.

For footage of Drake in 2014 throwing money outside a Washington strip club, the source asked to be paid $5,000.

For footage of former NFL player Ray Rice dragging the unconscious body of his fiancée, Janay Palmer, from an Atlantic City elevator in 2014, the source was paid $15,000.

Footage showing Rice knocking her down inside the elevator, leading to his termination from the Baltimore Ravens, went for almost $90,000.

A former TMZ employee told The New Yorker that they paid close to $5,000 for footage of Solange Knowles attacking brother-in-law Jay Z in an elevator at the Standard hotel in New York City in 2014, while her sister Beyonce stood by. (Previously, Page Six reported that TMZ paid $250,000.)

A TMZ source for the New Yorker piece said the price was closer to $5,000.

Footage of then 15-year-old Justin Bieber using the N-word while singing “One Less Lonely Girl" a cappella (obtained by TMZ in 2011 but not posted on the site until 2014) cost $80,000.

Twenty-year-old Courtney Roskop was paid $2,500 to discuss on-camera for TMZ Charlie Sheen's drug-fueled party in 2011 that landed him in the hospital.

TMZ bought a shot of the still filled bathtub in which Whitney Houston was found dead in 2012 for $1,000.

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