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How a Kiwi billionaire teamed up with Hulk Hogan and bankrupted a media company

Kiwi billionaire Peter Thiel secretly bankrolled Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against an online US news site after it published a sex tape of the former wrestling...

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Berliner Morgenpost

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How Hulk Hogan Became the Revenge Angel of Billionaire Peter Thiel

Investor Peter Thiel felt out, the wrestler exposed. Together they destroyed a gossip portal and celebrated Donald Trump.

23 hours ago·Berlin, Germany

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Indian Express

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How Hulk Hogan’s sex tape lawsuit bankrupted media company Gawker

Hogan’s suit, which was bankrolled by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, has had a lasting effect on cases involving celebrity privacy

1 day ago·India

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Crikey

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Hulk Hogan was the face of the most American of things: a billionaire press smackdown

Hulk Hogan was at the centre of one of the weirdest and most consequential chapters in American media history: the bankrupting of Gawker.

2 days ago·Australia

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NBC News

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How a Hulk Hogan lawsuit took down media platform Gawker

In 2012, Hulk Hogan paired up with a billionaire backer to file a lawsuit against news and gossip website Gawker. The site published portions of a sex tape involving Hogan. NBC News' Steven Romo has more on how Hogan's case led the company to file for bankruptcy.

2 days ago·United States

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NZ Herald

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How a Kiwi billionaire teamed up with Hulk Hogan and bankrupted a media company

Kiwi billionaire Peter Thiel secretly bankrolled Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against an online US news site after it published a sex tape of the former wrestling...

2 days ago·Auckland, New Zealand

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