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This was not a situation I ever expected to watch him in."ĭaulerio added it was "strange" to see Hogan sleeping with his friend Bubba's wife, seemingly with Bubba's permission. "I grew up watching Hulk Hogan and knew him as a character for most of his life. According to Daulerio, Bubba's voice can be heard saying, "You guys go have fun now." When he returned to the office and took a look at what was sent to him, he saw Hogan having sex with Heather Clem, the wife of Bubba the Love Sponge. The package came when Daulerio was on vacation. Burton didn't demand money, says Daulerio. Public figures live a different life."ĭaulerio testified that after TMZ reported about the existence of the sex tape in March 2012, he received an e-mail from Tony Burton, a manager representing various radio personalities, who wanted to send along the sex tape for review. It's to put something out there that's fair and accurate. "Sometimes you can come across as callous," said Daulerio. "There was no news value to showing them having sex?"ĭaulerio says he was making a social commentary on celebrity sex videos, and during direct examination from Gawker attorney Mike Sullivan, he defended the posting and a viewpoint that there are limitations on celebrity privacy. Bollea's penis had no news value, right?" asked Vogt. "If I had the opportunity to insert that I was joking, I should have," said Daulerio, who admitted that he signed a transcript of his deposition as accurate.

That's not my view."įacing blistering questions on cross-examination from Hogan's attorney Shane Vogt, Daulerio acknowledged that child pornography wasn't a proper subject to joke about, that he was testifying under oath, and had three lawyers present with him. He was also asked about his young children remark. On Monday, Daulerio was the first person called to the witness stand by Gawker in a seeming effort to establish that great care was taken before posting the video. The flippant remark garnered enough media buzz that Hogan's lawyers showed it to the jury twice. Daulerio said during his own deposition he would only draw the line on running sex tapes for those featuring children under the age of four. Daulerio, the former Gawker editor-in-chief who wrote the essay that accompanied the controversial sex tape. Last week, Hogan's attorneys paraded taped depositions from Gawker's staffers faced with questions about crude jokes made and a lack of consideration about the plaintiff's feelings in the Oct.

#Hogan gawker trial trial#

The trial is expected to last three weeks.Having been posed as the big, bad news organization that skirts privacy rights by posting scandalous material that steps over the line of human decency, Gawker is now presenting its defense in Hulk Hogan's $100 million trial in Florida. The video has since been removed from the site.Ī six-person jury will determine if Gawker violated Hogan's right to privacy when it published the video. The Clems later divorced in 2012, the same year the sex tape was published on Gawker. "I refused to believe he would do this to me. "Every time I approached him.he kept saying, 'No I didn't,'" Hogan recalled. In his opening statement, Gawker’s lawyer Michael Berry claimed Hogan filed his lawsuit in an effort to get “lots and lots of money.” He added that the website’s founder, Nick Denton, wanted “the public to have the simple, unvarnished truth…the unvarnished truth about public figures.”Īfter TMZ made him aware of the sex tape, and Gawker later published it on its website in 2012, Hogan said he "refused to believe" he was set up by his former best friend, Todd Clem. Hogan is now married to Jennifer McDaniel.

The two split in 2009 after 26 years of marriage. Hogan claimed on the stand Monday that he had no idea a sex tape was being made when he had sex with Heather Clem during "a low point in my life" when he was having marital issues with his then-wife, Linda.

"My gut was telling me that this was off. I gave up, gave in and let my guard down and it just happened." "I felt like those people cared about me. It was very weird because I had never been approached like that," he said on the stand.