Hulk Hogan Dead at 71… Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker trial over 9-second Sextape Leak Revisited

Hulk Hogan Dead at 71

Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan has died at 71 years old.

Medics were dispatched to the WWE icon’s Clearwater, Florida home early Thursday morning … with operators stating it was regarding a “cardiac arrest.”

@crissyglass19 Hulk being removed from his home this morning. 😢😭🥺Something isn’t right.#hulkhogan #wweupdate #wrestling #prowrestling #goingringside #hulk #wwefan ♬ original sound – Crissyglass

A video of the scene outside Hogan’s residence shows responders desperately trying to save his life as he was transported to an ambulance.

In the clip, several paramedics appear to be conducting chest compressions as Hogan is wheeled to the emergency vehicle.

Cops tell us officials responded to the call at 9:51 AM … and Hogan was treated by Clearwater Fire & Rescue personnel before being taken to a nearby hospital.

He was pronounced dead at the hospital… More @ TMZ

A while ago,

Sex, Celebrity and Privacy

Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker trial over 9-second Sextape Leak

Terry Bollea, aka Hulk Hogan, 62, wearing his trademark black bandana and a massive silver cross, was filmed having consensual sex with the wife of a friend.

Hulk Hogan Banged My Wife & Ruined My Life | Bubba the Love Sponge

Talk show host Bubba the Love Spong and his wife Heather Clem at the Adult Video news Awards back in 2009

Here’s what you need to know about Hogan v. Gawker: From sex tapes & bogus “experts” to the future of online journalism

Unsealed Hulk Hogan sex tape transcripts reveal lurid details of wrestler’s three encounters with best friend’s wife

The transcripts of Hulk Hogan’s three sex tapes with Heather Cole have been unsealed
Cole was the wife of Hogan’s best friend Bubba the Love Sponge when the three tapes were recorded back in 2007
The first tape in just over 40-minutes long and shows Cole performing oral sex on Hogan, which lasts less than ten minutes
The second tape is the one which was published by Gawker, and features the two having sex which lasts a little over two minutes
The third tape also features the pair having sex, and Hogan discussing his children Brooke and Nick

Hulk Hogan Gets His Python Measured

In his recent trial against Gawker, Hulk Hogan commented that Terry Bollea’s penis was not 10″ long. We found some old audio from WWF’s Tuesday Night Titans that proves that neither is Hulk Hogan’s. In fact, it’s a 24″ Python!

After years of legal wrangling, Hulk Hogan has finally taken Gawker to court. The meaning of journalism is on trial.

The Florida trial happening this week pitting wrestler Hulk Hogan against the website Gawker may seem a bizarre venue for major questions of First Amendment rights and journalistic principles, but so be it. Journalism is a broad church, encompassing both the regal and the rancid, and sometimes you’re going to find yourself having broad constitutional arguments over some very questionable material. Thursday’s session featured one of the more laughably poor showings from a so-called “expert witness” that you’re likely to see, but before we get to that, some background.

Gawker owner gloated about traffic surge from Hulk sex tape

At issue in the Hogan v. Gawker case is a 2012 post Gawker published showing a short excerpt of a sex tape someone made of Hogan having sex with someone else’s wife. The post reveled in the prurience of what it was publishing. The headline read, “Even for a Minute, Watching Hulk Hogan Have Sex in a Canopy Bed is Not Safe For Work but Watch it Anyway.” Hogan promptly sued the site for $100 million.

Gawker CEO Nick Denton being forced to read, out loud for the jury, the infamous “Hogan Sex Tape” story

Gawker on trial: Hulk Hogan sex tapes ‘very amusing’ and ‘newsworthy’

From Gawker’s perspective—and, really, from the perspective of almost any journalist out there—this is a straightforward First Amendment case. Hulk Hogan is a public figure who has discussed his sex life in public. The sex tape’s existence was already public knowledge; screenshots had even been published. The post Gawker published about him was true. In legal terms, “public figure” plus “true” usually equals “let’s go home” where journalism is concerned. If you start putting curbs on that, you imperil the ability of all journalists to do their jobs. If Hogan was trying to win a defamation suit, he probably wouldn’t have a shot.

But Hogan is claiming an invasion of privacy, a hazier concept that leaves Gawker at significantly more risk. Hogan is banking on the jurors being so turned off by the gleeful scuzziness of the Gawker post that they’ll look past the basic First Amendment questions and focus on how gross it would feel to have a sex tape of yourself put on the internet.

(The ill-advised decision by former Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio, who wrote the post in question, to joke about sex tapes featuring children during his deposition won’t help matters.)

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The right of journalists to publish things with no particular news value is an essential component of the First Amendment—dumb speech needs to be protected too!—but that can be an abstract thing to defend. (Full disclosure: I have written for Gawker a couple of times.) Human embarrassment, on the other hand, is universal, even if you’re someone as seemingly difficult to embarrass as Hulk Hogan.

Family time: Hulk is seen with his wife Linda and children Brooke and Nick just one month before he was filmed having sex with Cole