GAWKER Vs. Hulk Hogan

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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,243
    $115 million.

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  • Jason P
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    Gawker's arrogance cost them an extra $15M. Hogan's team was praying for $100M as the best case scenario. It's was kind of amazing to see the cocoon of idealism their editors and owner were living in.
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,243
    Jason P said:

    Gawker's arrogance cost them an extra $15M. Hogan's team was praying for $100M as the best case scenario. It's was kind of amazing to see the cocoon of idealism their editors and owner were living in.

    was the extra punitive damages?

    15 million is an astronimical amount of money to my brain. if i were a juror i would have had to been made to think that gawker were astoundingly severe assholes for me to award that much.

    so, is gawker pretty much destroyed at this point?
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,320
    gimmesometruth27 said:

    Jason P said:

    Gawker's arrogance cost them an extra $15M. Hogan's team was praying for $100M as the best case scenario. It's was kind of amazing to see the cocoon of idealism their editors and owner were living in.

    was the extra punitive damages?

    15 million is an astronimical amount of money to my brain. if i were a juror i would have had to been made to think that gawker were astoundingly severe assholes for me to award that much.

    so, is gawker pretty much destroyed at this point?
    From what I've read, it doesn't include punitive damages. The article said the defendants are still open to punitive damages.

    Lesson Learned: Don't make jokes about child pornography in a court deposition. Jurors tend to frown on that. And show some humility, even if it's fake. You only have to do it for 10 - 15 days.

    As for Gawker, I think they are pretty much screwed. Which means Deadspin is screwed, and I liked that site.
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,320
    edited March 2016
    And yes, they must have come off as astonishing assholes for the jury to award an extra $15M.

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  • rgambs
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    Jason P said:

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    I was born in 1985, so Hulk Hogan was clearly my first hero (excluding Mighty Mouse).

    "What's going on with Hulk Hogan's hair? It's blond and yet it's silken, like that of a Chinese man.
    Ah yes Uh, that is Hulk Hogan's signature look.
    Blonde, Chinese hair and the skin of a hot dog."
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    I'm available for sex tapes.....
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    I'm available for sex tapes.....

    :rofl:

    Good luck with that.
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,243
    edited March 2016
    rgambs said:

    Jason P said:

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    I was born in 1985, so Hulk Hogan was clearly my first hero (excluding Mighty Mouse).

    "What's going on with Hulk Hogan's hair? It's blond and yet it's silken, like that of a Chinese man.
    Ah yes Uh, that is Hulk Hogan's signature look.
    Blonde, Chinese hair and the skin of a hot dog."
    that is probably the most terrible looking guitar i have ever seen. looks like something ted nugent would rub one out to.
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    :lol:

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  • Jason P
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    Gawker has filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy ...
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  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,030
    This entire thing is so shady. The billionaire who Gawker outed funded Hogan's suit. That's a really slippery slope...
  • PJfanwillneverleave1
    PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
    The company basically sold itself.
    Does Hogan still get paid?
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,526
    PJfanwillneverleave1 said:

    The company basically sold itself.
    Does Hogan still get paid?

    It's Ch 11 and he will get a portion of it not all. It's a nice little loophole meant for the rich to screw up and still recover. Well that's my take on the law...
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,030
    Gawker will get sold. Denton is responsible for the money
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,243
    Cliffy6745 said:

    This entire thing is so shady. The billionaire who Gawker outed funded Hogan's suit. That's a really slippery slope...

    i don't think it is a website's responsibility to "out" anybody. gawker got what it deserves for trying to ruin people.

    i don't agree with the guy bankrolling hogan's suit out of spite, and this man clearly had an axe to grind. i guess all is fair these days.
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  • Cliffy6745
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    gimmesometruth27 said:

    Cliffy6745 said:

    This entire thing is so shady. The billionaire who Gawker outed funded Hogan's suit. That's a really slippery slope...

    i don't think it is a website's responsibility to "out" anybody. gawker got what it deserves for trying to ruin people.

    i don't agree with the guy bankrolling hogan's suit out of spite, and this man clearly had an axe to grind. i guess all is fair these days.
    I don't agree with them outing people at all and they have done it numerous times. I have no problem with the hogan sex tape though.

    This guy is trying to get every person that any gawker site has criticized to sue them. He needs to be kicked off the Facebook board immediately
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,320
    If Gawker could have shown some humility instead of arrogance during the trial, I think the outcome would have been much different. Now they will are forced to sell for pennies on the dollar.

    If Gawker were actual journalists, I would have a problem with a rich man taking revenge on them, but they are just glorified TMZ bloggers with an agenda.
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,243
    Jason P said:

    If Gawker could have shown some humility instead of arrogance during the trial, I think the outcome would have been much different. Now they will are forced to sell for pennies on the dollar.

    If Gawker were actual journalists, I would have a problem with a rich man taking revenge on them, but they are just glorified TMZ bloggers with an agenda.

    yes they had no outward signs of remorse. just arrogance, as you stated.

    i dunno man, maybe tmz bloggers are glorified gawker bloggers. either way, not real journalism by any stretch of the word.
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  • Jason P
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    gimmesometruth27 said:

    Jason P said:

    If Gawker could have shown some humility instead of arrogance during the trial, I think the outcome would have been much different. Now they will are forced to sell for pennies on the dollar.

    If Gawker were actual journalists, I would have a problem with a rich man taking revenge on them, but they are just glorified TMZ bloggers with an agenda.

    yes they had no outward signs of remorse. just arrogance, as you stated.

    i dunno man, maybe tmz bloggers are glorified gawker bloggers. either way, not real journalism by any stretch of the word.
    I'm guilty of giving gawker clicks, but I really do enjoy deadspin and usually checkout gawker for left hot takes on current issues. Not to get into a war of words, but just to observe.

    I don't hate them, but I really hate seeing a person have whatever their lifestyle exposed without their consent, as long as they they aren't doing something despicable such as using child sex slaves. That's why I think when captain dipshit made the 4 year old Mendoza line statement ... In a court deposition none the less, well, those dipshits just signed their own death warrant.
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