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| Hulk Hogan Gets $115M Verdict Against Gawker at Sex Tape Trial |
| 2016-03-20 |
| [HOLLYWOODREPORTER] Weighing free speech against privacy, a Florida jury has decided to uphold the sanctity of the latter by turning in a $115 million verdict against Gawker over its 2012 posting of a Hulk Hogan sex tape. So the guy who posted pictures of his girlfriend having sex with him got 30 days. And Gawker's out of business and its proprietor's beggared. Had he been the one who had sex with Hulk Hogan he'd be a lot better off. Hogan brought the case three years ago after Gawker, a 13-year-old digital news site founded by Nick Denton, an entrepreneur with an allergy to celebrity privacy, published a video the wrestler claimed was secretly recorded. The sex tape was sensational, showing Hogan — whose real name is Terry Bollea — engaged in sexual intercourse with Heather Cole, the then-wife of his best friend, Tampa-area radio shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge (real name: Todd Alan Clem). Gawker's posting of the Hogan sex tape was accompanied by an essay from then–editor-in-chief A.J. Daulerio about celebrity sex and a vivid play-by-play of the encounter between Hogan and Cole. |
| Posted by:Fred |