I conic pro-wrestler and MAGA supporter Hulk Hogan (aka Terry Gene Bollea) died today at the age of 71, amid reports of a ...

Hulk Hogan's successful lawsuit against Gawker, stemming from the publication of a sex tape, led to the media outlet's ...

Hulk Hogan’s legal bodyslam of Gawker over his sex tape with his best friend’s wife that forced the gossip rag to pony up ...

That's also the year Peter Thiel and his legendary "mafia," which includes Elon Musk and Reid Hoffman, took PayPal public, giving Thiel the kind of cash to be able to shell out $500,000 for 10% of ...

Marc Randazza: Peter Thiel criticized for funding Hulk Hogan suit as revenge against Gawker gossip reporting. Randazza: It's not simple First Amendment threat; Thiel's motivations defensible when ...

By the end of the week, Gawker will have an outside owner for the first time in its 14-year history. But it can’t blame Peter Thiel for all of its woes.

Thiel's history with Gawker Media is long: In 2007, Valleywag, a Silicon Valley-focused Gawker website, published a story entitled "Peter Thiel Is Totally Gay, People" before the tech entrepreneur ...

Peter Thiel, tech billionaire and co-founder of PayPal, spent $10 million dollars helping Hulk Hogan win his case against Gawker Media. (Video: Daron Taylor, Jhaan Elker/The Washington Post) ...

Column: Peter Thiel, Gawker, and the risks of making the courthouse a private sandbox for the wealthy By Michael Hiltzik Business Columnist Follow May 25, 2016 2:55 PM PT ...

Bankrolling the effort to bankrupt Gawker, Thiel said, is “one of my greater philanthropic things that I’ve done.” (More philanthropic, it seems, than the money he has donated to the free ...

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke • 06/09/16 11:25am Peter Thiel Until a few weeks ago, it was almost impossible to point to the craziest part of Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker.

In 2007, Valleywag, a now defunct Gawker blog, published a piece on Thiel, outing him as gay. Thiel apparently waited, patiently, for an opportunity to support litigation against Gawker, a media ...