Alec Baldwin Quits Twitter, Says 'I Wanted to Gut and Kill' TMZ's Harvey Levin Over Phone Call Leak

A word of advice to the New York City paparazzi that have set up camp in the bushes outside Alec Baldwin's apartment building: the recent pushing and shoving exchanges are just the beginning.

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Baldwin, who has had trouble of late with aggressive photographers seeking to capture shots of him with his new bride, Hilaria Thomas, has a long history with aggressive tabloids -- thanks in large part to the breakup of his first marriage, to Kim Basinger. The long battle over the ex-couple's daughter, Ireland, infamously led Baldwin to leave the then-11-year old a venemous voicemail in 2007, which was leaked by TMZ. That led to just a little bit of ill will toward TMZ boss Harvey Levin.

“I wanted to stick a knife in him and gut him and kill him and I wanted him to die breathing his last breath looking into my eyes," Baldwin tells Vanity Fair in a new interview. That follows a tweet this weekend in which he called Levin a "vermin."

And that's all he's going to say on the subject, at least for now; following a long run of political statements, battles with critics, 140-character rationed poetry and airplane distress signals, Baldwin deactivated his Twitter account on Monday, signing off with the message, "It's been fun."