I conic pro-wrestler and MAGA supporter Hulk Hogan (aka Terry Gene Bollea) died today at the age of 71, amid reports of a ...

Hulk Hogan's successful lawsuit against Gawker, stemming from the publication of a sex tape, led to the media outlet's ...

In recent days, tech billionaire Peter Thiel was revealed as the man funding a series of lawsuits against Gawker, a news site that is engaged in a lawsuit with Terry Bollea, a.k.a. Hulk Hogan.

Peter Thiel, tech billionaire and co-founder of PayPal, spent $10 million dollars helping Hulk Hogan win his case against Gawker Media. (Video: Daron Taylor, Jhaan Elker/The Washington Post) ...

Thiel's history with Gawker Media is long: In 2007, Valleywag, a Silicon Valley-focused Gawker website, published a story entitled "Peter Thiel Is Totally Gay, People" before the tech entrepreneur ...

In 2007, Valleywag, a now defunct Gawker blog, published a piece on Thiel, outing him as gay. Thiel apparently waited, patiently, for an opportunity to support litigation against Gawker, a media ...

But, news reports revealed that Thiel funded the suit — possibly to the tune of $10 million in legal fees – as part of a plan to get back at Gawker for invading his privacy.

Bankrolling the effort to bankrupt Gawker, Thiel said, is “one of my greater philanthropic things that I’ve done.” (More philanthropic, it seems, than the money he has donated to the free ...

That's also the year Peter Thiel and his legendary "mafia," which includes Elon Musk and Reid Hoffman, took PayPal public, giving Thiel the kind of cash to be able to shell out $500,000 for 10% of ...

In recent days, tech billionaire Peter Thiel was revealed as the man funding a series of lawsuits against Gawker, a news site that is engaged in a lawsuit with Terry Bollea, a.k.a. Hulk Hogan.

By the end of the week, Gawker will have an outside owner for the first time in its 14-year history. But it can’t blame Peter Thiel for all of its woes.

Column: Peter Thiel, Gawker, and the risks of making the courthouse a private sandbox for the wealthy By Michael Hiltzik Business Columnist Follow May 25, 2016 2:55 PM PT ...