The trial is expected to last three weeks. Why has Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel spent upwards of 10 million funding third-party lawsuits against Gawker If you believe his interview with the. The video has since been removed from the site.Ī six-person jury will determine if Gawker violated Hogan's right to privacy when it published the video. The Clems later divorced in 2012, the same year the sex tape was published on Gawker. "I refused to believe he would do this to me. Alex Wong/Getty Images But two months after the verdict, it was revealed that Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel was responsible for financing Hogans case against Gawker. "Every time I approached him.he kept saying, 'No I didn't,'" Hogan recalled. Daulerio publicly stated that his new strategy was based on 'trafficwhoring,' which is the practice of pandering to the lowest common denominator of. He claims that the company leaked a transcript in which he used a racial slur, which caused him. In his opening statement, Gawker’s lawyer Michael Berry claimed Hogan filed his lawsuit in an effort to get “lots and lots of money.” He added that the website’s founder, Nick Denton, wanted “the public to have the simple, unvarnished truth…the unvarnished truth about public figures.”Īfter TMZ made him aware of the sex tape, and Gawker later published it on its website in 2012, Hogan said he "refused to believe" he was set up by his former best friend, Todd Clem. Hogan, 62, recently sued Gawker again, this time for intentional infliction of emotional distress. Hogan is now married to Jennifer McDaniel. The two split in 2009 after 26 years of marriage.
Hogan claimed on the stand Monday that he had no idea a sex tape was being made when he had sex with Heather Clem during "a low point in my life" when he was having marital issues with his then-wife, Linda. "My gut was telling me that this was off. Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, is suing Daulerio, Gawker founder Nick Denton and the sites parent company in a 100 million invasion of privacy trial in St. I gave up, gave in and let my guard down and it just happened." "I felt like those people cared about me. It was very weird because I had never been approached like that," he said on the stand.
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