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

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...