HULK HOGAN WINS CASE OF SEX VIDEO
Gawker media company published in 2007 an article titled "Peter Thiel is totally gay, people". The same media company released a sex tape of Hulk Hogan. This lead to hulk suing the media company, this lawsuit was secretly funded by the entrepreneur Peter Thiel who is a billionaire.
The 62-year-old wrestler won $140 million from the media website in March - $115 million in compensatory damages and $25 million more in punitive damages - after they published a 2006 sex tape of him and his friend Bubba The Love Sponge's then-wife Heather Clem in 2012.In an interview the billionaire said "its less about revenge and more about specific deterrence that Gawker pioneer is a unique and incredibly damaging way of getting attention by bullying people even when there was no connection with public interest".
The 62-year-old wrestler won $140 million from the media website in March - $115 million in compensatory damages and $25 million more in punitive damages - after they published a 2006 sex tape of him and his friend Bubba The Love Sponge's then-wife Heather Clem in 2012.In an interview the billionaire said "its less about revenge and more about specific deterrence that Gawker pioneer is a unique and incredibly damaging way of getting attention by bullying people even when there was no connection with public interest".
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