TMZ Chief Offered Bitcoin ransom to chase Guthrie kidnapping leads, FBI allegedly ghosted him

TMZ founder Harvey Levin says he was prepared to pay one bitcoin (about $60,000) to a ransom-note writer claiming to know Nancy Guthrie’s abductors and to follow the money to the suspects, after repeatedly hearing from the source. The FBI reportedly promised to follow up but then went quiet, later asking TMZ to stand down from pursuing a documentary. Levin questions the informant’s credibility while Guthrie remains missing with no public suspects nearly five months later.