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Lights Out At Gawker: Nick Denton Publishes Scathing Attack On Peter Thiel In Final Post

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From: Queerty All good things must come to an end. Including Gawker . “Gawker.com is shutting down today, Monday 22nd August, 2016, some 13 years after it began and two days before the end of my forties,” the site’s founder, Nick Denton, writes in the site’s official obituary published Monday evening at 5:30 p.m. “It is the end of an era.” The post is basically a 4,500-word rant against Peter Thiel, the gay billionaire Republican responsible for bringing the gossip site down. “Peter Thiel has achieved his objectives,” Denton writes. “His proxy, Terry Bollea, also known as Hulk Hogan, has a claim on the company and my personal assets after winning a $140 million trial court judgment in his Florida privacy case.” Denton goes on to explain that the site’s former editor, who wrote the original 2012 article about Hogan, has been financially ruined, as well, with “a $230 million hold on his checking account.” “Peter Thiel has gotten away with what would otherwise be viewed as an act of pett...

Gawker Is Shutting Down For Good Next Week

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The company is blaming gay billionaire Peter Thiel's "clandestine legal campaign." From: NewNowNext Two days after the Univision network purchased Gawker for $135 million in a court-ordered auction, the website has announced it “will be shutting down next week.” The gossip blog’s 14-year reign was essentially destroyed by a lawsuit both the company and CEO Nick Denton lost against Terry “Hulk Hogan” Bollea, over a private sex tape Gawker published and refused to remove years ago. Writer J.K. Trotter announced the news in a Gawker post shortly after staff were notified this afternoon. It reads in full: “After nearly fourteen years of operation, Gawker.com will be shutting down next week. The decision to close Gawker comes days after Univision successfully bid $135 million for Gawker Media’s six other websites, and four months after the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel revealed his clandestine legal campaign against the company. Nick Denton, the company’s outgoing ...

Who Will Buy Gawker?

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All bids for the company through its bankruptcy auction were due by the end of the day on Monday. From: NewNowNext   Gawker Media was auctioned off to the highest bidder this week in order to pay the $140 million it owes after losing to Hulk Hogan in a landmark privacy case earlier this year. When Nick Denton’s media company posted footage of a Hogan sex tape from 2012, the former wrestler decided to sue. Then, billionaire PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, angry at Gawker for outing him as gay back in 2007, decided to fund Hogan’s lawsuit as punishment, eventually forcing the company into bankruptcy. Now, with dozens of publishing companies having expressed interest, and with all bids due by the end of the business day on Monday, we will find out who will end up buying Gawker Media before the end of the week. Magazine publisher Ziff Davis is at the top of the list of contenders, having already signed an offer to buy the company for $90 million, but other bidders may come in with higher o...