Michel Murr Denies Report, Issues Clarification
9/22/2026 8:16:30 PM
MTV Chairman Michel El Murr issued the following statement:
“Media outlets affiliated with the duo Paula Yacoubian and Tahseen Khayat, as well as the so-called ‘lies platform’ owned by Michel Qanbour, have reported that I got into a physical altercation with someone at a dinner hosted by Dr. Nader Saab. The report is entirely false, as can be confirmed by the roughly 200 people who attended the dinner. Not a single photograph was taken, which in itself is telling. In fact, the outlets that published these false reports resorted to AI-generated images because they could not find a single real photo of the alleged incident, for the simple reason that it never happened.
What actually took place was a very brief verbal exchange stemming from a previous disagreement with one individual.
We are putting this clarification before the public and cautioning Lebanese citizens against relying on media outlets whose owners have a long record of corruption and have made a practice of fabricating stories to conceal their own troubled records, both public and personal, records known to us and to many others.”
“Media outlets affiliated with the duo Paula Yacoubian and Tahseen Khayat, as well as the so-called ‘lies platform’ owned by Michel Qanbour, have reported that I got into a physical altercation with someone at a dinner hosted by Dr. Nader Saab. The report is entirely false, as can be confirmed by the roughly 200 people who attended the dinner. Not a single photograph was taken, which in itself is telling. In fact, the outlets that published these false reports resorted to AI-generated images because they could not find a single real photo of the alleged incident, for the simple reason that it never happened.
What actually took place was a very brief verbal exchange stemming from a previous disagreement with one individual.
We are putting this clarification before the public and cautioning Lebanese citizens against relying on media outlets whose owners have a long record of corruption and have made a practice of fabricating stories to conceal their own troubled records, both public and personal, records known to us and to many others.”