When staffers at UCLA’s Medical Center were fired in March for snooping on Britney Spears’ medical records, and then selling tidbits about the pop star, like details of her giving birth sto Sean Preston in 2005, one teensy weensy other revelation floated to the surface: The practice was nothing new.

Plenty of other celebs had their privacy violated, including Maria Shriver, George Clooney, and Farah Fawcett.

Now, tapes of conversations between tabloid The Globe and a score of hospital employees, from 1992-93, show how editors there regularly paid off sources inside various hospitals’ walls for dirt on Tom Cruise, Liz Taylor, Billy Crystal, Kelsey Grammer, Magic Johnson, Roseanne Barr, Al Pacino, Paula Abdul, Frank Zappa, and Vanna White. From plastic surgery procedures to eating disorder treatment, every tidbit was available for the right price.

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