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Bollea v. Gawker was a lawsuit filed in 2013 in the Circuit Court of the Sixth Judicial Circuit in Pinellas County, Florida, delivering a verdict on March 18, 2016.In the suit, professional wrestler Terry Gene Bollea, known professionally as Hulk Hogan, sued Gawker Media, publisher of the Gawker website, and several Gawker employees and Gawker-affiliated entities [2] for posting portions of a ...
Terry Gene Bollea [8] [9] (/ b ə ˈ l eɪ ə /; born August 11, 1953), better known by his ring name Hulk Hogan, is an American retired professional wrestler.Known for his flamboyance and massive physique, and his trademark blond handlebar moustache and bandanas, Hogan is widely regarded as the most recognized wrestling star worldwide, the most popular wrestler of the 1980s and one of the ...
The film starts with the legal proceedings of professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, who (with the financial backing of billionaire Peter Thiel) had filed a lawsuit against Gawker Media, seeking $100 million in damages for releasing a sex tape featuring him and Heather Clem.
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. Hulk Hogan is no stranger to litigation, and now sources say he's willing to take legal action again—this time against Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.
Gawker Media recently lost a gigantic lawsuit that could cost it over $140 million, brought against it by former pro wrestler and reality TV star Hulk Hogan over the publication of a sex tape in 2012.
Brooke Hogan doesn't support her father Hulk Hogan's racist remarks caught on tape eight years ago, but that doesn't mean she's not standing behind the 61-year-old wrestler 100 percent. ET caught ...
The WBF folded in July 1992, McMahon was indicted, prosecuted, and eventually acquitted of illegally supplying steroids to WWF wrestlers over the next two years, and WWF's business would decline during the mid-1990s as they struggled to replace their most popular star Hulk Hogan, who had also been implicated in the steroid scandal. [7]
The Hulk Hogan-Sid Justice match was billed as Hogan's "last match", when in actuality, Hogan took a hiatus, due to the steroid scandal which was beginning to emerge in the news media. [3] Piper also took a hiatus from the ring following WrestleMania VIII.