![]() Hogan’s battle represents the latest strife in the escalating tension between the media and celebrities. ![]() … When you have a friendly state court judge, she’s going to let Hogan have a pretty free hand at trial.” “I’m not aware of a celebrity sex tape case that has gone the full distance. “This whole dispute is remarkable,” says Adam Thurston at Drinker Biddle & Reath, who has handled cases involving celebrity sex photos. The potentially NC-17 two-week proceeding is being watched by Hollywood attorneys for less prurient reasons. In an effort to show the sex tape qualifies as “newsworthy,” Gawker is seeking to introduce evidence that Hogan has injected his sexual prowess into the public sphere by fondling women’s breasts for a Rocky III publicity photo shoot and discussing in interviews where on a woman he likes to ejaculate, the size of his genitalia and the use of his mustache when performing oral sex. Even if Pinellas County Judge Pamela Campbell forbids the viewing of the video of Hogan with Heather Clem, the ex-wife of Hogan’s best friend, documents in the case suggest testimony could be graphic. In addition to possibly setting new legal precedent for media outlets that publish celebrities’ private moments, the trial could be one of the raunchiest ever. Gawker's Hulk Hogan Sex Tape Story Is Turning Out to Be a Very Expensive One “I promised in the beginning that I would see this through to the end to hold Gawker accountable. “I have never been afraid to fight for what I think is right,” Hogan tells THR. Hogan, 61, sees the courtroom as one more match to conquer. Gawker is run by Nick Denton, 48, whose outspoken aversion to celebrity privacy - and wars with everyone from Lena Dunham to John Travolta to Quentin Tarantino - borders on the fanatical. How the case got this far is a reflection on the parties. But Hogan (aka Terry Bollea) hasn’t settled, and on July 6, he is set to make history when a trial opens in Florida. No celebrity sex tape case has ever made it to a jury, for reasons ranging from the strength of the First Amendment to stars being more interested in wiping the video from the web than winning money. When wrestler-turned-reality TV star Hulk Hogan sued Gawker in 2012 for posting part of a secretly recorded sex video, it was a poor bet that the $100 million suit would go to trial.
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