![]() ![]() The verdict would stun the world and so would peter's ultimate unmasking as the man who had set it all in motion. After a multi-year proxy war through the Florida legal system, the settlement of dollar 140million in favour of Hogan ended it. Still furious at an article that hadouted him ten years previously and increasingly disgusted at gawker's unscrupulous reporting methods, Thiel had spent nearly a decade meticulously plotting a conspiracy that would lead to the demise of gawker and its founder, nick Denton. ![]() Peter Thiel, Paypal founder and billionaire investor, had masterminded the whole thing. ![]() After countless other lawsuits it seemed that gawker had finally run out of luck. And of the few that do exist, fewer are ever discovered, let alone explained. In 2016, one of the giants of modern journalism fell, Gawker media, infamous for saying what other outlets wouldn't say, was sued for publishing hulk Hogan's sex tape, lost the case and went bust. ![]()
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