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.

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

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 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.

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) ...

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.

That case and supposedly others against Gawker were backed by Peter Thiel, the legendary Silicon Valley investor and billionaire who was a PayPal co-founder and founder of Palantir.

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 ...

And then there’s the much-cited 2007 post I wrote about the puzzling reaction of Silicon Valley’s elite to any discussion of Peter Thiel’s sexuality. By then, friends and others in Thiel’s ...