Gawker Media Group is worth $276 million. The jurors had been informed that Denton’s worth is $121 million and Gawker’s $83 million and that Daulerio has no assets and is $26,000 in debt.ĭenton’s net worth was calculated based on his interest in Gawker Media Group, Gawker’s parent company. Pinellas County Judge Pamela Campbell had told the jury that the second award couldn’t be “unreasonably large” compared with their first and should not “financially destroy or bankrupt any of the defendants.” Former Gawker editor AJ Daulerio Stephen Yang Meanwhile Gawker’s attorney, Michael Berry, pleaded with the jury, saying “$115 million is punishment enough. Meanwhile, Gawker’s lawyer, Michael Berry, asked them to spare his clients any more financial pain, insisting, “$115 million is punishment enough.” “Literally, everything was done with complete reckless disregard and intent to harm this man.” And that statement is, ‘We’re going to draw a line,’ ” he told them. The same panel on Friday had awarded Hogan $65 million for emotional distress and $50 million for the damage to his career and earnings.Īddressing jurors before deliberations Monday, the WWE champ’s lawyer, Kenneth Turkel, urged them consider the statement their verdict would make. The four-woman, two-man jury took about four hours to answer Hogan’s call to deliver a second blow to Gawker for posting the video of him having sex with the wife of his then-best friend, the shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge Clem, who secretly recorded the tryst. I’m really happy about everything that’s happened, and I think we made history today because I think we’ve protected a lot of people from maybe going through what I went through,’’ he said. Hogan, 62, whose real name is Terry Bollea, praised the award. Daulerio, who posted the video, was held liable for $100,000. Gawker owner Nick Denton must personally pony up $10 million of the additional punitive damages, while the gossip site is on the hook for $15 million and its former editor A.J. The Hulk Hogan jury hit Gawker with another body slam Monday, awarding the former pro wrestler $25.1 million on top of the $115 million it already gave him over the publication of his sex tape. Hulk Hogan wins $25 million more from Gawker in sex-tape lawsuit Hulk Hogan's ex-wife Linda banned by AEW after controversial tweetĭennis Rodman skipped Bulls practice to wrestle with Hulk Hogan Wrestler Titus O'Neil tells Jalen Rose about his shocking origins Hulk Hogan's new girlfriend is Sky Daily after divorce from Jennifer McDaniel Gamers are one of the most ignored and looked down upon groups in society, but the media has been painting them as “misogynists” and “bullies” for the past few months.īut as a sign that Gawker may start paying more attention to what its writers say in the future, the site’s editorial director Joel Johnson posted a statement on the front page saying that Gawker does not support bullying.Hulk Hogan pays emotional tribute to Scott Hall: 'Took care of me when I was down' Read and Biddle both apologised for their tweets. Read’s post comes after he and another Gawker writer, Valleywag editor Sam Biddle, were embarrassed by tweets that seemed to support bullying of “nerds” and gamers. He also insulted Intel, an advertiser that left the gaming site Gamasutra for similar reasons, by writing, “Intel is run by cowardly idiots. Read yesterday said some unflattering things about gamers and made false claims about GamerGate. Max Read’s angry response to the situation won’t have made these advertisers feel any better. These letters are working.ĭozens of advertisers have changed their minds about sponsoring sites like Gawker because of how badly they treat their own readers. Since Gawker joined the fight with hateful games journalists who wanted to wrongly portray GamerGate as a misogynistic campaign running under the guise of a press ethics mission, GamerGate supporters have been writing earnest, polite letters to advertisers and sponsors. Instead of apologising for the tone of its coverage and the language of its writers, Gawker called the video game community, which was upset by Gawker’s biassed coverage of the GamerGate controversy, “dishonest fascists.” Gawker has been defiant in the face of a large number of advertisers leaving after a letter-writing campaign by video game fans and readers who were sick of the way its journalists yelled at, made fun of, and bullied them. As a result, brands like Adobe, Mercedes, and BMW are thought to have rethought their relationships with Gawker. Max Read, the editor-in-chief, says that consumer activism has already cost the publisher thousands of dollars.
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