Matt Lavietes

@mattlavietes

Reporter @NBCNews | email: [email protected] | IG: http://instagram.com/mattlavietes | Signal: mattlavietes.29

New York, NY

Joined September 2017

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Matt Lavietes@mattlavietes · Jul 19

BREAKING: Astronomer CEO Andy Byron resigns days after Coldplay "kiss cam" moment goes viral nbcnews.com/news/us-news/a…

mattlavietes's tweet card. When a "kiss cam" displayed a blond woman and a silver-haired man at a Coldplay concert on Wednesday, the woman ran off and the man ducked out of the frame setting off a viral frenzy.

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Dennis Romero@dennisjromero · Jul 11

Pennsylvania 911 system experiencing statewide outages. Gov. Josh Shapiro says his office is on the case. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/p… via @nbcnews' @mattlavietes

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Matt Lavietes@mattlavietes · Jul 2

Diddy’s children are leaving the courthouse.

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Matt Lavietes@mattlavietes · Jul 2

Diddy’s best friend Charlie Lucci addresses reporters

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Matt Lavietes@mattlavietes · Jul 2

Combs’ supporters are spraying baby oil on each other outside of the courthouse.

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Matt Lavietes@mattlavietes · Jul 2

Diddy supporters and critics are clashing outside of the courthouse in Downtown Manhattan.

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Chloe Atkins@chloe_aatkins · Jun 21

NOW: Khalil arriving in the New York area He was flanked by his wife Dr. Noor Abdalla and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 👇🏻 Video by @mattlavietes

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Matt Lavietes@mattlavietes · Jun 21

Flanked by his wife and AOC, Mahmoud Khalil has returned to the NYC metropolitan area

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Matt Lavietes@mattlavietes · Jun 4

The husband Jonathan Joss believes the actor was killed because he was gay But police dispute the killing was motivated by hate Conversations with Joss' husband, neighbors and police reports paint a complicated picture of what led to Joss' tragic death nbcnews.com/news/us-news/j…

mattlavietes's tweet card. Joss, the voice actor best known as John Redcorn on “King of the Hill,” was fatally shot in front of his home Sunday.

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Matt Lavietes@mattlavietes · May 24

Linda Clary spent three years relentlessly pressing the NYPD, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, the mayor's office, the media and anyone who would listen, determined to ensure that her son's case was not forgotten. She can now finally rest. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/m…

mattlavietes's tweet card. Linda Clary's son, John Umberger, was one of two men murdered in a drugging and robbery scheme that plagued New York City's gay bars in 2021 and 2022.

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Matt Lavietes@mattlavietes · May 22

Three years of reporting culminated to today’s sentencing

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Matt Lavietes@mattlavietes · May 21

BREAKING: Three men are sentenced to decades in prison for murder in NYC gay bar drugging scheme nbcnews.com/news/crime-cou…

mattlavietes's tweet card. Two men — Julio Ramirez, 25, and John Umberger, 33 — were murdered in connection with the scheme.

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Matt Lavietes@mattlavietes · May 21

I would love for someone to research how much time the average person spends per year having to go through two-factor authentication

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Matt Lavietes@mattlavietes · May 9

Police in Worcester, Massachusetts, held a young girl's face to the ground as ICE agents detained her mother, video shows. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/m…

mattlavietes's tweet card. In Massachusetts, where the incident occurred, local police are generally prohibited from assisting ICE with immigration enforcement.

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Matt Lavietes@mattlavietes · May 8

A great read on a disturbing trend by @pbmelendez for @NBCNews Can we all agree to just not say it? nbcnews.com/tech/internet/…

mattlavietes's tweet card. Many still consider the word a disability slur, and while its use has percolated in the comedy world for years, only recently has it — and discussion of its return — become more common.

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Matt Lavietes@mattlavietes · May 7

NYPD is apprehending dozens of Columbia students tonight.

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Matt Lavietes@mattlavietes · May 7

Happening at Columbia University right now

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Matt Lavietes@mattlavietes · May 7

BREAKING: The Trump administration is planning to send a group of undocumented immigrants to Libya as early as this week nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u…

mattlavietes's tweet card. The migrants are from the Philippines, Vietnam and Laos, among other countries.

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Matt Lavietes@mattlavietes · May 6

BREAKING: Supreme Court allowed President Trump to implement his ban on transgender people serving in the military. nbcnews.com/politics/supre…

mattlavietes's tweet card. The blanket ban, expanding on a similar policy Trump proposed in his first term, has been blocked nationwide by lower courts.

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Matt Lavietes@mattlavietes · May 6

Mayor Eric Adams was at Casa Cipriani last night for a Met Gala after-party nytimes.com/2025/05/06/sty…

mattlavietes's tweet card. Pop stars, club kids and the mayor of New York City kept the festivities going into the early morning hours.

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