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> If Gawker didn't want to go bankrupt, then maybe it shouldn't have illegally recorded and published a sex tape. To be fair the sex tape was recorded by Hulk'
by jonknee 10y ago
> If Gawker didn't want to go bankrupt, then maybe it shouldn't have illegally recorded and published a sex tape.
To be fair the sex tape was recorded by Hulk's best friend and husband of the woman he was having sex with. They knew a tape was being made.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/12/media/hulk-hogan-gawker-settlement/ http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/12/media/hulk-hogan-gawker-sett...
> Bubba Clem could be heard on the full tape saying that if he ever wanted to retire, he simply needed to release the video.
Clem settled for $5,000.
- FireBeyond 10y agoI assume there's no obligation, and he also agreed to settle, but it would seem to me that there might be argument in that the punitive damages were excessive, if the plaintiffs were willing to accept a settlement of one fiftieth of one percent the amount they sought from the party that actually released the video as they sought from the party that publicized the video (note, "punitive" damages. Of course Gawker had more power to damage character than Bubba Clem, which is why I deliberately used only the $25M, not the $140M, which encapsulated economic and emotional damages).