TMZ and the NY Post are both considered to be about the same, credibility-wise. Any legit news outlets that picked up the story and ran it at face value (I'm not aware of any that did), would have almost certainly had as the lead, "According to TMZ." But even that's risky, as all credible news outlets long ago learned.It's not that TMZ supposedly got one of their facts wrong. It appears that they got multiple facts wrong. Like the complete opposite of what may have actually happened. It's just a little weird that they could be so completely inaccurate in their story. Other news entities initially picked up their story linking to them directly or via the NY Post so they are at least considered reputable.