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Belzer v. Bollea 150 Misc. 2d 925 (N.Y. Misc. 1990) is a 1990 New York Supreme Court case between TV presenter Richard Belzer and professional wrestler Hulk Hogan (whose real name is Terry Bollea). The case involved Belzer suing Hogan for personal injury after Hogan had put a sleeper hold on him. The case was eventually settled financially out ...
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 ...
In 2016, the WWE star filed a lawsuit against Gawker after they posted video from a sex tape of Hogan and the wife of a friend, ... Hulk Hogan, Gawker and the Anatomy of Intrigue.”
They could start in 2012, when Gawker published the sex tape, and chronicle the four years it took for Hogan to win his lawsuit. Or they could focus solely on the court proceedings.
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 ...
Hogan won $31 million in a lawsuit with the media company, but it cost him some of his credibility. World Wrestling Entertainment distanced itself from Hogan after the incident, which happened a ...
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.
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.