Sentences with phrase «valbuena sex tape»

Gawker began a court - ordered auction of its business on Monday after losing a $ 140 - million court case earlier this year involving former wrestler Hulk Hogan, who sued Gawker for invasion of privacy after it published a clip from a sex tape he made with a friend's wife.

Gawker Media filed for bankruptcy in June after Hogan won a $ 140 million court judgment against the site in a lawsuit over a sex tape.

The drama started when Gawker lost a lawsuit by retired professional wrestler Hulk Hogan over publishing a clip from a sex tape that Hogan said violated his privacy.

Although Thiel implies in his essay that the Gawker story about Hogan's sex tape would not have been published by any right - thinking journalistic outlet, and that the First Amendment doesn't and shouldn't protect such behavior, two higher - court judges ruled before the Hogan decision that the Gawker piece was clearly covered by the Constitution's free - speech protections.

In a taped video deposition, former editor A.J. Daulerio called celebrity sex tapes newsworthy unless involving a child.

The 62 - year - old former professional wrestler, whose legal name is Terry Bollea, told jurors he still is suffering from the humiliation of the sex tape's posting in 2012.

The former wrestler and TV personality brought his case to court after the site published a sex tape starring Hogan.

Jurors are expected to hear closing arguments today in the trial for former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker Media over a sex tape featuring Hogan that Gawker posted online.

If you make a sex tape without their permission, we are told now, you are a journalist,» he said.

«To hide behind the First Amendment [in publishing a sex tape], that is an insult to journalists.»

«If you make a sex tape of someone with their permission, you are a pornographer.

He also advised his followers to «check out» Machado's sex tape.

Can you explain the news value of the story that triggered the lawsuit, the Hulk Hogan sex tape?

A month away from the election, the Republican presidential nominee stayed up all night tweeting about an alleged Miss Universe sex tape.

(His major expenses at the time of filing included a $ 7 million mandated payment to Lastonia Leviston, a Florida woman who said that Jackson had published a sex tape of her online without permission, as well as a soured headphone deal costing him $ 18.4 million.)

Hogan brought the case against Gawker in 2012, after the media site published an excerpt of a Hogan sex tape.

Separately, Montroll and ColoGuys were previously sued in a copyright case alleging that a homemade sex tape was posted on a website hosted by a ColoGuys server without the copyright holder's consent.

Jon Montroll, founder of the site BitFunder, was a defendant in an Arizona copyright case involving a Sports Illustrated model's sex tape in 2006.

In a widely publicized privacy lawsuit this year, a Florida jury awarded Hogan, whose real name is Terry Gene Bollea, $ 140 million in damages from Gawker for publishing a sex tape in 2013 in which the former wrestler was featured.

That's still a fairly huge sum, but it's significantly less than the $ 140 - million judgment that Hogan and his backer — Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel — won in a Florida jury trial after Gawker published a clip from a sex tape that Hogan said violated his privacy.

A ruling for Gawker would not amount to carte blanche for media to start publishing sex tapes.

A number of analysts believed that Gawker stood a good chance of having the Hogan judgment either reversed or significantly reduced, especially since two higher - court judges had already ruled in previous decisions that the publication of an excerpt of Hulk Hogan's sex tape was newsworthy, and therefore covered by the protection of the First Amendment.

Gawker and Hulk Hogan are squaring off in court over a sex tape.

In a series of early - morning tweets Friday morning, Trump called former Miss Universe and new Clinton campaign asset Alicia Machado «disgusting» and urged his followers to look up her «sex tape.»

For the record, no evidence has yet surfaced of Machado ever making a sex tape.

Did Crooked Hillary help disgusting (check out sex tape and past) Alicia M become a U.S. citizen so she could use her in the debate?

But the fact is, there is a market for amateur content — socialites Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian became full - blown celebrities when their sex tapes «leaked» onto the web — and it's eating away at the professionals» market share, much to their chagrin.

During a panel discussion as part of the South by Southwest Festival's interactive program, Denton admitted that the Hogan story — which was about a sex tape that the wrestler made with a friend's ex-wife, and included a short clip from the tape — didn't have an obvious point to it, apart from embarrassing Hogan.

Vivid Entertainment, famed for its celebrity sex tapes, saw a 30 % drop in its revenue last year, having once claimed $ 100 million in annual sales.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP)-- A Florida jury sided with ex-pro wrestler Hulk Hogan and awarded him $ 115 million in his sex tape lawsuit against Gawker Media.

In 2012, Gawker published a «highlights reel» of a leaked sex tape featuring Hogan and Heather Clem, the wife of his friend Bubba the Love Sponge Clem.

Funny or Die, which has spoofed everything from Mary Poppins to Kim Kardashian's sex tape, got a boost in March when U.S. President Barack Obama appeared with Galifianakis on «Between Two Ferns» to discuss health care.

If America rallies around Gawker and decides we want more people to be outed and more sex tapes to be posted without consent, then they will find a way to save Gawker, and I can't stop it.»

Didn't the jury deserve to know that Bubba told his radio listeners and then the FBI, in a meeting where lying is a criminal offense, that Hulk Hogan knew he was making a sex tape?

Then, Thiel emerged as the secret financial backer of a controversial lawsuit by wrestler Hulk Hogan against Gawker Media over a sex tape and took a victory lap for his successful attack and crowed that it was philanthropic.

For months, the Gawker Media owner and people around him had speculated that the pro wrestler had a wealthy backer footing the legal bill for his fight against Denton and Gawker, which had published an excerpt of a Hogan sex tape.

A Florida state judge today upheld the $ 140 million jury verdict against Gawker Media for publishing Hulk Hogan's sex tape.

Founder and CEO Nick Denton must pay $ 10 million, and former editor A.J. Daulerio, who published the blog post with the sex tape excerpt, has to pay $ 100,000.

The same sex tape was posted five times to PornHub under the name «Leaked Hillary Clinton's Hotel Sex Tape with Black Guy,» and also the porn site SpankBang.

By the time Daulerio published the post, it had been seven months since TMZ broke the news about the existence of the sex tape and more than five months since gossip website The Dirty had published grainy screenshots from the video.

We've got Anonymous - affiliated groups threatening to release a pop star's sex tape unless she bows to their will (and the media eating it up).

And they argue that there's a crucial distinction between writing about the existence of Hogan's sex tape and actually publishing uncensored excerpts from the tape:

Hogan's defense team argues that Gawker could have reported on the existence of the tape without posting video from the sex tape.

The case has its roots in an Oct. 4, 2012 post written by Gawker's then - editor A.J. Daulerio about Hogan's 2006 sex tape.

Denton is proud of publishing the video taken from Hogan's sex tape.

Gawker received a DVD of the 30 - minute video and decided to edit it down to a «highlights reel» about a minute and a half long, and published that along with a long post by Daulerio commenting on the tape and the nature of celebrity sex tapes in general.

Gawker's publication of excerpts of the sex tape, which revealed that Bubba had encouraged Hogan and Clem to have sex, refuted both of these false narratives.

The Gawker Media founder and C.E.O.'s opponent: celebrated professional wrestler Hulk Hogan (real name: Terry Bollea), who sued Denton and Gawker in 2012 after the gossip blog published a supercut of his sex tape and refused to take it down.

Hogan's lawyers warn that Gawker's interpretation of the law will lead to a dire future in which no one has any privacy and everyone's sex tapes and nude photos are published on Gawker.

Hogan had already threatened to sue a number of other websites if they posted the sex tape, and he sued Gawker in federal court on Oct. 15, 2012.