Court documents filed Wednesday said there have been settlement talks between Gawker and Denton as well, although they have not reached a final settlement. A Florida jury on Friday awarded Hulk Hogan 115 million in damages in his lawsuit against Gawker Media in what amounts to a stunning decision. The two others mentioned by Denton, a journalist and a man who says he invented email, will settle with Gawker for a total of $1.25 million, the bankruptcy court papers indicated Wednesday.ĭenton himself also had to file for personal bankruptcy because of the Florida court’s verdict.
A Florida jury on Friday awarded Hulk Hogan 115 million in damages in his lawsuit against Gawker Media in what amounts to a. Hogan, 63, sued Gawker in 2012, asserting the. Analyzing Hulk Hogan’s stunning 115M win in lawsuit vs. Denton said in the Wednesday post that he was confident that an appeals court would have reduced the $140 million verdict, but “an all-out war with Thiel would have cost too much, and hurt too many people, and there was no end in sight.Gawker’s nemesis was not going away.” Thiel has said he would support Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, “until his final victory.”ĭenton also said Wednesday that as part of the settlement, three “true stories” - about Hogan and two others who had also filed suit - are being “removed from the web.” Univision, which bought Gawker Media’s other sites for $135 million, has already deleted several posts from the properties it now owns, which include tech blog Gizmodo and women-oriented site Jezebel, because they were tied to litigation. Hulk Hogan and Gawker Media have reached a settlement that will pay Hogan 31 million, court filings revealed, according to Brian Stelter of CNN. Gawker Media and Hulk Hogan are in preliminary talks to settle the 140 million invasion-of-privacy judgment that has plunged the blog network into bankruptcy, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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