Hulk Hogan
Last week a Florida jury awarded wrestler
Hulk Hogan $115,000,000 in a leaked sex tape case he filed
against the Gawker website. Gawker, owned by Nick Denton,
was given a secretly filmed sex tape of Hogan, shot without
his permission or that of his sex partner. Gawker lawlessly
decided to publish the voyeuristic tape and was hit with a
$100,000,000 lawsuit for this misconduct. The jury has now
awarded Hogan an additional $25,000,000 in damages. Jurors
revealed seeing the tape during trial made up their minds to
throw the book at Gawker for this egregious misconduct.
Heather Clem
The jury's verdict in this case and others,
such as Erin Andrews v. Marriott Hotels and separately
Lastonia Leviston v. 50 Cent, is the American people sending
the media and Hollywood a clear message that the public is
not agreement with secretly spying on people in their homes,
hotels and public toilets - and to make it worse, publishing
the contents of the illegal voyeurism. The media and
Hollywood are in their own world where anything goes, but
the American public and the world as a whole are not in
agreement with this perversion that is criminally violating
people's rights to privacy.
Gawker owner Nick Denton and his boyfriend/civil partner
What's also alarming is Gawker's editor, A.J.
Daulerio stating celebrity sex tapes are newsworthy, meaning
they should be made public with or without the subject's
consent. When asked what would constitute going too far,
Daulerio answered, "If they were a child." Hogan's attorney
asked "Under what age" to which Daulerio perversely and
troubling replied "Four." That means Gawker would publish
child porn if the subject is 5-years old and up. These are
the kind of perverts Gawker has on staff. Is there any
wonder those perverts at Gawker gleefully and illegally
published the secretly filmed Hogan sex tape.
Gawker's A.J. Daulerio
The whole thing is sick, stomach turning and
deserves to be slapped down in every legal venue possible.
Adults and separately children's rights are being violated,
by perverts who are deviants and sexual predators desperate
and hard up for any form of sexual stimulation they can
find. This is not legal porn where of age actors are paid
and know they are being filmed. This is secretly watching
and filming people in private places, such as their
bedrooms, hotel rooms and public toilets and it has to stop.
It's disgusting, sick and denotes serious mental problems in
people engaging in this criminal behavior. Anyone engaging
in such depraved behavior belongs in a mental institution,
as they are a danger to the public.
STORY SOURCE
Where Gawker editor draws the line: A sex-tape of a
4-year-old
March 9, 2016 | 11:29am - Jurors in Hulk
Hogan’s sex video trial on Wednesday heard a videotaped
deposition of Gawker’s former editor in chief — saying he’d
draw the line at posting the sex tape of a celebrity who is
under 4 years old. A.J. Daulerio, 41, was sitting ramrod
straight in the Florida courtroom during the awkward moment
when he was asked on video by Hogan’s lawyer, “Can you
imagine a situation where a celebrity sex tape would not be
newsworthy?”
Daulerio answered flatly, “If they were a
child.”
“Under what age?” attorney Charles Harder
asked.
“Four,” he said.
“No four-year-old sex tapes, OK,” Harder
said...
Hulk Hogan jurors said seeing Gawker sex tape
solidified their decision to award wrestler more than $100m
including ANOTHER $25m in punitive damages
Published: 22:40 EST, 21 March 2016 |
Updated: 01:09 EST, 22 March 2016 - The jurors in the Hulk
Hogan sex tape case against Gawker said seeing the video
'solidified' their decision to hand the wrestler the winning
verdict. Salina Stevens, a 35-year-old college-campus safety
agent from St. Petersburg, Florida, told reporters once she
saw the video she knew Hogan's privacy had been violated.
'The video was worse than I expected in some
ways. 'Not so much the sex part of it but just the
conversation. 'I just feel like if he knew that he was being
videotaped, he would not have spoke about the things he
spoke about,' Salina said. She said the conversation between
Hogan and the woman in the video was 'very human' and proved
to her the wrestler didn't know he was being recorded.
'I understand that we have a First
Amendment, and I stand behind the First Amendment but I
don’t want that to be used improperly. 'I think that it is
used improperly way too often, and we also have privacy
laws, and I hope those will be taken into more consideration
when stories are being ran,’ Salina said.
Hogan was awarded an additional $25million
in punitive damages - three days after the jury ruled in his
favor with a $115million judgment. That $25million will be
covered by both the site and its owner Nick Denton, who
jurors ordered to pay $10million of the punitive damages out
of his own pocket. The jury's decision came just hours after
Judge Pamela Campbell informed the four women and two men
deciding the case that Denton is worth $121million while the
site is valued at $83million.
Judge Campbell also informed the jury that
the former editor of the site who posted the video,
41-year-old AJ Daulerio, has no assets and owes $27,000 in
student loans. He was hit even harder than Denton by jurors
Monday, who ordered him to pay $100,000 of his own money
despite being told about his financial status earlier in the
day...
