John Mayer loses $25,000 in a bet

John Mayer gave editors at TMZ.com $25,000 for charity after losing a bet about his criminal records.

This all started when Patrick Stump from Fall Out Boy was arrested for driving with an invalid license and his mug shot plastered all over the Internet. That's when Mayer mentioned his arrest for the same situation and challenged TMZ to locate the mug shot for the charity donation.

TMZ actually found the mug shot after The Smoking Gun had already posted it with Mayer's arrest in Atlanta, May 2001. The case was dismissed a month later.

"Well done, TMZ," Mayer tweeted. "But the real winners today are the puppies."

"[John Mayer] is awesome," TMZ's Harvey Levin wrote on Twitter. "These two animal charities are really hurting 'cause of the economy. J.M. has just saved a bunch of lives."

Mayer feels that folks should dig into there past for rewards. "Challenge," he wrote on Twitter. "I was married for four years to a member of the Moody Blues. Produce the certificate and I'll buy you one chicken tender."

Sources: MTV, Fox News