I conic pro-wrestler and MAGA supporter Hulk Hogan (aka Terry Gene Bollea) died today at the age of 71, amid reports of a ...

Hulk Hogan's successful lawsuit against Gawker, stemming from the publication of a sex tape, led to the media outlet's ...

Hulkamaniacs never forget, brother. Hulk Hogan’s legal bodyslam of Gawker over his sex tape with his best friend’s wife that ...

Column: Peter Thiel, Gawker, and the risks of making the courthouse a private sandbox for the wealthy. By Michael Hiltzik. Business Columnist Follow. May 25, 2016 2:55 PM PT .

Peter Thiel, Gawker and why all of this could matter during a Trump presidency May 25, 2016 More than 9 years ago Hulk Hogan won a lawsuit against Gawker Media in March.

How Peter Thiel’s Secret War With Gawker Came to Light Turns out that just because you're paranoid, doesn’t mean a tech billionaire who was publicly outed by your website isn’t after you.

That's also the year Peter Thiel and his legendary "mafia," which includes Elon Musk and Reid Hoffman, took PayPal public, giving Thiel the kind of cash to be able to shell out $500,000 for 10% of ...

Marc Randazza: Peter Thiel criticized for funding Hulk Hogan suit as revenge against Gawker gossip reporting. Randazza: It's not simple First Amendment threat; Thiel's motivations defensible when ...

By the end of the week, Gawker will have an outside owner for the first time in its 14-year history. But it can’t blame Peter Thiel for all of its woes.

Bankrolling the effort to bankrupt Gawker, Thiel said, is “one of my greater philanthropic things that I’ve done.” (More philanthropic, it seems, than the money he has donated to the free ...

Thiel's history with Gawker Media is long: In 2007, Valleywag, a Silicon Valley-focused Gawker website, published a story entitled "Peter Thiel Is Totally Gay, People" before the tech entrepreneur ...

In 2007, Valleywag, a now defunct Gawker blog, published a piece on Thiel, outing him as gay. Thiel apparently waited, patiently, for an opportunity to support litigation against Gawker, a media ...