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How TMZ Got the Shot of the Week!

Posted Aug 11th 2007 3:30AM by TMZ Staff

The mayor of Los Angeles isn't the biggest star in Hollywood, but being embroiled in a politically fueled adultery scandal with a TV reporter helps boost your TMZ cred -- big time! Say cheesy!
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa hasn't been filmed with his "other woman," suspended Telemundo reporter Mirthala Salinas, until Ivan, a TMZ staffer, encountered the tabloid twosome at a San Fernando Valley mall -- and got the video on his cell phone! Ya nevah know what you'll find at the mall!

Check out how it all went down ... behind the scenes at TMZ in our morning meeting.

Tags: Antonio Villaraigosa, AntonioVillaraigosa, Mirthala Salinas, MirthalaSalinas

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91. this is for all the puritans who believe that a politician should be your role model or the picture of perfection . if your clean of guilt cast the first stone.
next time we elect a public official we should get him out of a convent, somebody who is
some sort of a saint.i wish people stop focusing on his private life wish is none of your business.as long as he is doing the job he was elected to do ,he can sleep with whoever he wants[did we forget clinton he did it and he may do it again]
if people are looking for role models in the political arena YOU ARE LOOKING IN THE WRONG PLACE.

Posted at 10:49PM on Aug 14th 2007 by roller

92. that house is jinxed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getty_House

Posted at 1:23AM on Aug 13th 2007 by Lowen

93. Why did he wear full suits to the mall shopping with his mistress? Did he not get the memo about how to disguise himself when having a "private affair"?

Posted at 12:10PM on Aug 13th 2007 by BZ

94. Hey roller, re-consider your smug attempt at propagandizing that Antonio Villaraigosa is doing the job he was elected to do. What has he done for all of the people in Los Angeles? The fact that he and his girlfriend even made the clip on TMZ.com speaks volumes for the embarrassment he has brought to Los Angeles.

Because we live in a very promiscuous-enabling culture does not mean that all of us are morally corrupt. Using your arguendo that "Bill Clinton" did it too, is just asinine. Each and every post on here about Villaraigosa has been an interesting revelation about this elected representative. Kudos to Ivan and the TMZ staff.

Posted at 11:24AM on Aug 13th 2007 by LA citizens are not all stupid

95. God!! nobody cares if you will vote for Antonio Villaraigosa again. He is the worst Los Angeles mayor in a very long time. Which one are you "anonymous" "whatever" , or a Villaraigosa friend? Maybe you work very hard for him intimidating other people who post the truth that this mayor is a former low-life, and will never amount to anything more than a low-life in whatever he does. His girlfriend will never be accepted in Corina Villaraigosa's place. TMZ may pull off unflattering posts about Villar's checkered past but we will always find more web pages where he and his supporters can't manipulate the truth about how rotten he is. We are already enthusiastically looking at potential fresh mayoral candidates.

Posted at 9:59PM on Aug 13th 2007 by David

96. Leave Antonio ALONE! WAH!

As a Los Angeles street rat I have to ponder the whole media government thing... ponder with me, will you?

In this fine state, quite frankly, our governor's performance in T2 was better than the one in Sacramento! So then where the hell does the mayor of Los Angeles get off acting like the media doesn't own his ass.... right, Christine Divine? I mean, I love the guy, (not in a Mirthala Salinas way), because of him's fixin' up our boogered up schoolummasystem, and them potholes.... I'd vote for him again... but hey, who wouldn't want to see Villiairagosa in a beer commercial surrounded by babes, right?

Posted at 1:35AM on Oct 3rd 2007 by HorkDefenderOfSquat

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