{"id":3925,"date":"2016-05-25T11:43:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T03:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/25\/billionaire-investor-peter-thiel-reportedly-funded-hulk-hogans-lawsuit-against-gawker\/"},"modified":"2016-05-25T11:43:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T03:43:04","slug":"billionaire-investor-peter-thiel-reportedly-funded-hulk-hogans-lawsuit-against-gawker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/25\/billionaire-investor-peter-thiel-reportedly-funded-hulk-hogans-lawsuit-against-gawker\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire investor Peter Thiel reportedly funded Hulk Hogan&#039;s lawsuit against Gawker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ap_396478595924\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA1LzI1LzIzL0FQXzM5NjQ3ODU5LmU1ZmUyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/6d9f0164\/aaa\/AP_396478595924.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Billionaire+investor+Peter+Thiel+reportedly+funded+Hulk+Hogan%27s+lawsuit+against+Gawker&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F24%2Fpeter-thiel-gawker-hulk-report%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F24%2Fpeter-thiel-gawker-hulk-report%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The name of a surprising new contender may have just entered the ring of Gawker&#8217;s increasingly strange legal showdown with Hulk Hogan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ryanmac\/2016\/05\/24\/this-silicon-valley-billionaire-has-been-secretly-funding-hulk-hogans-lawsuits-against-gawker\/#ff0db6278057\">Forbes<\/a><\/i> is reporting through anonymous sources that billionaire Silicon Valley investor and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/10\/donald-trump-delegate-venture-capitalist-peter-thiel\/\">Donald Trump delegate<\/a>\u00a0Peter Thiel has been secretly helping Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, bankroll his ongoing quest to take down the media company in court.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/02\/gawker-hogan-racial-slur-tape\/?utm_campaign=&amp;utm_context=textlink&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_source=\">Hulk Hogan is suing Gawker. Again.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The supposed revelation does fit with rumors throughout the Florida trial that Hogan was being supported by a wealthy benefactor. Gawker Media founder Nick Denton told the <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/24\/business\/dealbook\/gawker-founder-suspects-a-common-financer-behind-lawsuits.html?ref=topics&amp;_r=0\">New York Times<\/a><\/i> on Monday that he had a &#8220;personal hunch&#8221; that this backer had ties to Silicon Valley. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/24\/peter-thiel-gawker-hulk-report\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/hulk-hogan\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Hulk Hogan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/media\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Media<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/peter-thiel\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Peter Thiel<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/gawker\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Gawker<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/business\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Business<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href='http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?iu=\/6692\/mash.to\/rss&amp;pos=atf&amp;tag=ad&amp;mtype=standard&amp;type=rss&amp;sz=300x250&amp;c=1464146957' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?iu=\/6692\/mash.to\/rss&amp;pos=atf&amp;tag=ad&amp;mtype=standard&amp;type=rss&amp;sz=300x250&amp;c=1464146957'><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/lwEeKJ_Y8DM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name of a surprising new contender may have just entered the ring of Gawker&#8217;s increasingly strange legal showdown with Hulk Hogan.\u00a0 Forbes is reporting through anonymous sources that billionaire Silicon Valley investor and Donald Trump delegate\u00a0Peter Thiel has been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/25\/billionaire-investor-peter-thiel-reportedly-funded-hulk-hogans-lawsuit-against-gawker\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}