#BolleaVGawker

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Gawker Media New York online publisher of Gawker, Gizmodo and five other sites that filed Chapter 11 in June 2016 after a $140.1 million verdict in Bollea v. Gawker, a suit funded by Peter Thiel.

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Bollea v. Gawker Bollea v. Gawker Media was the 2016 Florida invasion-of-privacy trial in which Terry Bollea (Hulk Hogan) won a 140 million dollar verdict against Gawker Media over its 2012 publication of a sex tape, a judgment secretly funded by Peter Thiel that drove Gawker into bankruptcy and ended the outlet.