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Hulk Hogan Settles With Gawker For $31 Million (go.com)
Gawker Media, which filed for bankruptcy after losing a lawsuit brought by the former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, has settled the case. The settlement, which court documents indicate is for $31 million, comes less than eight months after a jury awarded Mr. Hogan $140 million in damages in an invasion of privacy case lawsuit over Gawker's publication of a video that showed Hogan having sex with a friend's wife. From a report on ABC: Settlement documents filed at a New York federal bankruptcy court stipulate that Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, will get $31 million plus share with other creditors 45 percent of any additional funds that come into the bankruptcy court by virtue of third-party claims brought by Gawker. Hogan's camp said in a statement: "After almost five years of litigation all parties agreed it was time to resolve this matter. This will allow people to go about their lives and concentrate on things more important than continued court proceedings. As in any case involving negotiation all parties give-and-take. We would like to thank everyone involved in the process." In a blog post on the settlement, Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media, wrote: "After four years of litigation funded by a billionaire with a grudge going back even further, a settlement has been reached. The saga is over."
someone leak my sex tape
neither of us are famous but i'd even take $31
His company was destroyed because he ignored the law. Let's all feel sorry for him. I'm playing the world's smallest violin.
A boil has been excised from the ass of humanity.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
Because I had loose bowels that day.
Jennifer Lawrence pics = BAD AND EVERYONE WHO LOOKED AT THEM SHOULD FEEL BAD. Hulk's sex tape = FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.
Live by the douchebag, die by the douchebag. And this big ball of dirt keeps on spinning.
It's a sad, sad day for media outlets, and journalism in general.
How can we exist as a democracy when the public isn't going to be allowed to see stolen sex tapes of washed up celebrities? This is going to have a chilling effect on news outlets everwhere.
Think of all the sex tapes hidden from the public of washed up celebrities that will now never come to light because of this censorship! There could be sex tapes of Charo giving a blowjob to John Davidson stolen by Danny Bonaduce, and we'll never see them! It's shocking, shocking I say! There could be a sex tape of Corrie Haim giving a reacharound to Corey Feldman! A double Correy sex tape, and we may never see it! How will modern journalism, nay democracy survive!
Looking forward to the liars at Rolling Stone being sued into the doghouse over their "gang rape on broken glass" agitprop hit piece.
after reading this, is Terry Bollea. The fucker cheats on his own wife and that of his friend, then plays the victim to the tune of $140 million, as if that would be a fair amount of the DAMAGES CAUSED TO HIM. Money-greedy petty fucking Americans.
A millionaire sued another millionaire and millions changed hands. Everyone is scum in this situation. Plaintiff, defendant, and lawyers. Just an average day in America.
The only thing worse than a Democrat is a Republican.
How to pack fudge into a twinkie and make a creampie.
Who invented email? This settlement includes $750,000 to Shiva Ayyadurai and removal of the article that debunks his claim that he invented email.
Does anyone think that part of the settlement is justified by anything except Thiel's money?
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
Nothing worse than fucking your friend's woman. Having a cheating women is a horrible thing to have to live with. Bollea should pay his friend those 31 million dollars for the disgrace he had to endure. Gawker should have been commended for doing the right thing and exposing the cheating woman, and the so-called friend.
You're making me way horny. And I can't be distracted by arousal while I'm working. Mrs. Clinton isn't going to win this election all by herself.
Only the worst websites could have articles saying people should be thrown in to prison for revenge porn next to a leaked sex tape on the front page.
Seriously, fuck Nick Denton, and fuck Gawker. The only way it could have turned out better is if Hogan ended the court case with a leg drop. Peter Thiel is a hero for helping to take out this tabloid that insisted on masquerading as a legitimate news agency.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
You won't have any fun playing with your dick after it gets severed in an accident and you spend your entire fortune on medical bills to have your dick reattached to your body but you still have no sensation in your reattached dick.
Who invented email? This settlement includes $750,000 to Shiva Ayyadurai and removal of the article that debunks his claim that he invented email.
That part is missing in the article linked, but is in other articles on the settlement:
http://nordic.businessinsider.com/gawker-settles-with-hulk-hogan-2016-11/
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161102/10054035947/ridiculous-nick-denton-settles-remaining-charles-harder-lawsuits-agrees-to-delete-perfectly-true-stories.shtml
https://nickdenton.org/a-hard-peace-e161e19bfa
http://www.politico.com/media/story/2016/11/gawker-reaches-settlement-with-hulk-hogan-004844
only in america can you have a career based on taking illegal performance enhancing (and nad shrinking) drugs, play acting in spandex leotards, be a raging homophobic racist and get 31 million dollars for filming yourself committing adultery. oh yeah, and the guy who made all this possible is gay! lol
Hogan: How much ya got?
Denton: 31 million dollars
Hogan: I'll take it, brother!
MY dick is waaaaaay bigger. It's bigger than both of you and all your friends that you think are wealthy!
I can buy and sell you all!!!!!!!!
You're ALL my SLAVES! SLAVES you assholes!!!!!!!!!!
And you know what slaves say. They say, "Yes, Massa"! So, all you slaves can bust your fucking lips open on my huge, gold-plated dick!!!!!! And, when I cum on your faces and ask if you want more, you'll ALL say ...
"Yes, Massa! I wants mo"!
And, it doesn't matter what color your skin is. I'm an equal opportunity slave owner.
SLAVES!!!!!
Thanks Hulk for bullyciding that faggot.
It's a sad state of affairs when you need a billionaire with a grudge backing you to get any justice.
For the same reasons child porn laws are a threat to freedom of speech so are laws like this. Any censorship however justified it might seem is a threat to freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Once you say some communications should be protected more than other communications there is no such thing as freedom of speech any more.
Freedom of speech is not needed by those whose speech is popular. It is needed by those whose speech is not popular. Child porn led to censorship offline, but it has since led to online filters, mainly from the 1990s. Homophobic and racists groups who lost the war against homosexuality switched to attacking easier targets (paedophiles). Our perception of paedophiles is wrong and the racists and homophobic religious groups have taken advantage to push an agenda that in no way protects the children. It just adds to the prison count those whom there is zero evidence actually rape children. It's like saying every male is a rapist. It makes no sense. Some subset of paedophiles are rapists just as some subset of males are rapists. The same is true for murderers within the category of paedophiles and males. The image the media presents (and spurred on by racists and homophobic groups) though is that paedophiles are all rapists and murders.
Most people don't realize that they are on a censored connection. It doesn't matter if you are in Canada, Europe, or China. A good chunk of the world is being censored by government and corporations alike. Post 2000 these filters are now used to censor copy'right' material. Even that is no longer good enough though. Now they don't just censor copy'right' material. They censor whole sites that talk about copy'right' infringing material, circumvention techniques, security issues, etc. Censorship lists also now include sites of a purely political nature. And we're not talking China either. We're talking countries like Canada, Australia, and countries in Europe that have these censorship lists. And don't even get me started about the middle east. The justifications against child porn are the same justifications they use to murder women, children, and homosexuals in the middle east.
Is when a sex tape is worth more than ruining a man's life. And not Terry Bollea's, that vet friend of his son's that is vegatative thanks to that crash in the Supra. I would have a smidgen more respect for Mr. Bollea if some of this money was put forth into a fund for him to ensure his continued needs are met. Terry bought his son the car, bought his son the mods, probably paid off lots of reckless and illegal driving tickets (or got him out of them with a good lawyer.) Payback SHOULD be a bitch, but it should be a bitch for EVERYONE, not just some of the blokes because the other guy had more money.
With all that money you spend time reading /.
Lol -- that's rich!
Get up!
I was listening to the radio yesterday and they were talking about Peter Thiel paying for some of Hogan's legal fees because "even as a single-digit millionaire, Hulk Hogan does not have adequate access to the legal system." Hulk Hogan may have been unsuccessful in his litigation because his pockets, his deep pockets, still weren't deep enough to get damages he deserved.
And fuck Gawker. Good damn riddance. If you make enough enemies, they will pool their resources and bring you down. But the only people hurt by that will be the working class. The big-wigs there will just have their egos hurt.
Chewbacon
The Bible is like Wikipedia: written by a bunch of people and verifiable by questionable sources.
It wasn't about the sex tape where he fucked the wife of another man while the man filmed, it was about his racist comments which came out afterward.
Just google "Hulk Hogan net worth" and you get 8 million USD. Old data I guess.He must be very very happy.
Hell, I wanted to sue Gawker. No one should have to see Hulk Hogan naked. Ever.