Media outlets pay for exclusives all the time but it’s a little shocking just how much. Recently a jail letter from Aaron Hernandez was sold to TMZ. In the letter Hernandez said he would be acquitted in the murder of his former friend, 27-year-old Odin Lloyd. According to a sports store in Saugus, Mass, TMZ paid a pretty penny for the information. Read more after the jump.
TMZ reportedly paid $18,000 for the letter. Brendan Brennan, a manager at Sports World, Inc., said they sold the letter despite the request Hernandez made to the original recipient — reportedly an ex-con named “Karl” — to not have it published on the Internet.
“It wasn’t written to us, so we didn’t have to honor anything from that letter,” Brennan told the Boston Herald.
Sportsworld, Inc., compared the letter to Hernandez’s autographs to confirm it as “100 percent” real.
A second letter was released where Hernandez again claimed that God put him there for a reason and it would all come to an end. I wonder how much TMZ paid for that one…
