A’s identity was revealed last week as Aron D’Souza, an Oxford-educated lawyer based in Melbourne. A.” The latter was the link between Thiel and Bollea’s lawyers, who Thiel paid $25,000 monthly to dig up cases against Gawker they might be able to fund. The details of this conspiracy got a little clearer this week with the publication of a book by Ryan Holiday containing interviews with all the major players, Thiel, Nick Denton, founder of Gawker, the Hulk himself, and “Mr. Several months later, Forbes revealed that billionaire PayPal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel handed him the bottle. That’s what happened to Gawker in March 2016, when a Florida jury awarded Terry Bollea, better known as Hulk Hogan, $140 million in damages from Gawker for violating his privacy by publishing a sex tape recorded without his consent. If one of his erstwhile victims turned around and punched the schoolyard bully in the nose, you would feel like he had it coming, wouldn’t you? What if the same erstwhile victim was handed a broken bottle, and proceeded to leave the bully bleeding out on the basketball court?
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