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#Peter thiel gawker trial

In 2006, Bollea was videotaped while having sex with Heather Clem at trial he claimed that the videotaping was without his knowledge or consent. On November 2, 2016, Gawker reached a $31 million settlement with Bollea. Gawker Media's assets, not including the namesake website, were subsequently sold to Univision Communications. Three months after the verdict, Gawker filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and put itself up for sale. In March 2016, the jury found Gawker Media liable and awarded Bollea $115 million in compensatory damages and $25 million in punitive damages. Prior to trial, Bollea's lawyers said the privacy of many Americans was at stake while Gawker's lawyers said that the case could hurt freedom of the press in the United States. Bollea's claims included invasion of privacy, infringement of personality rights, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. In the suit, Terry Gene Bollea, known professionally as Hulk Hogan, sued Gawker Media, publisher of the Gawker website, and several Gawker employees and Gawker-affiliated entities, for posting portions of a sex tape of Bollea with Heather Clem, at that time the wife of radio personality Bubba the Love Sponge.

Gawker was a lawsuit filed in 2013 in the Circuit Court of the Sixth Judicial Circuit in and for Pinellas County, Florida, delivering a verdict on March 18, 2016. 2012), motion to remand granted, Bollea v. Daulerio Kate Bennert, and Blogwire Hungary Szellemi Alkotast Hasznosito KFT aka Gawker Media, Defendants aka Gawker Media Gawker Entertainment, LLC Gawker Technology, LLC Gawker Sales, LLC Nick Denton A.J. Heather Clem Gawker Media, LLC aka Gawker Media Gawker Media Group, Inc. Terry Gene Bollea, professionally known as Hulk Hogan, Plaintiff, v. Just last week, Thiel sat alongside Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg in the famous summit with leading conservatives over allegations that Facebook was suppressing conservative news topics.Circuit Court of the Sixth Judicial Circuit in and for Pinellas County, Florida In 2009 Thiel donated money to notorious conservative filmmaker James O'Keefe in 2009. Thiel recently announced his decision to attend the upcoming Republican convention as a delegate for Donald Trump. Thiel is one of the few conservative pillars in a largely liberal Silicon Valley. With his wealth of $2.8 billion, Thiel has launched several philanthropic projects, from supporting college dropouts to build their entrepreurial dreams, funding scientists in anti-aging research and creating permanent dwellings in the ocean to be independent from all existing governments. Thiel was one of the first backers of Facebook and saw his $500,000 investment to the social network mushroom into a $1 billion cash payout. Working in tech since the dot-com boom when he co-founded PayPal in 1998, Thiel is considered one of the premier venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. Gawker's defunct blog Valleywag-which lampooned Silicon Valley celebrities, culture and companies-started the feud in 2007 by outing Thiel as gay in a headline titled 'Peter Thiel is totally gay, people.' In 2009, Thiel called Valleywag 'the Silicon Valley equivalent of Al Qaeda.' Gawker and Thiel had a long-running but infrequent history with one another. The lawsuits were structured in such a way that insurance wouldn't cover the payouts, according to Denton. 'My own personal hunch is that it's linked to Silicon Valley, but that's nothing really more than a hunch,' Denton says to The New York Times. A Florida jury awarded Hogan $140 million in damages, a verdict which Gawker is currently appealing.Įarlier today, The New York Times reported that Gawker Media founder Nick Denton had a suspicion that Hogan was being bankrolled by an unknown person.

#Peter thiel gawker pro

Thiel reportedly has been backing Hulk Hogan in his defamation case over Gawker publishing a sex tape involving the former superstar pro wrestler.

#Peter thiel gawker series

Paypal co-founder, Facebook investor and Donald Trump-supporting billionaire Peter Thiel is the financier behind a series of lawsuits against the online gossip outlet Gawker in a series of lawsuits, a report from Forbes claims, citing 'people familiar with the situation who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity.'