"If Gawker can pull off things like this, nobody has privacy anymore," Charles Harder, Hogan's attorney, said in a 2015 interview.
Attempts at a settlement with Gawker, however, were unsuccessful. Hogan also sued Clem, and the two settled outside of court. It is unclear how the video made its way into Gawker's hands. The website initially refused to take down the one minute and 40 seconds of footage from a post titled "Even for a Minute, Watching Hulk Hogan Have Sex in a Canopy Bed Is Not Safe for Work but Watch It Anyway."Ĭlem, Hogan's one-time friend, admits to having filmed Hogan's sexual exploits with his wife, though he claims he stashed the tape in a drawer and expected no one would find it. Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, argues that Gawker violated his privacy by publishing a portion of the nearly 30-minute sex tape, which was made in 2006.
GAWKER DOWN TRIAL
Jury selection for the trial is set to begin Tuesday. The media legal match of the year begins this week: Former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan is suing news and gossip website Gawker for $100 million for the 2012 publication of a sex tape involving him and Heather Cole, the then-wife of radio personality Bubba the Love Sponge Clem.
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