Column: Peter Thiel, Gawker, and the risks of making the courthouse a private sandbox for the wealthy. By Michael Hiltzik. Business Columnist Follow. May 25, 2016 2:55 PM PT .

— -- Gawker founder Nick Denton has written an open letter to Peter Thiel, criticizing the PayPal co-founder's decision to financially back Hulk Hogan's invasion of privacy lawsuit against ...

Peter Thiel, Gawker and why all of this could matter during a Trump presidency May 25, 2016 More than 9 years ago Hulk Hogan won a lawsuit against Gawker Media in March.

Thiel, who was outed as a gay man by Gawker in 2007, secretly bankrolled the Hulk Hogan sex tape lawsuit against the company that resulted in a $140.1 million judgment. "A free press is vital for ...

That's also the year Peter Thiel and his legendary "mafia," which includes Elon Musk and Reid Hoffman, took PayPal public, giving Thiel the kind of cash to be able to shell out $500,000 for 10% of ...

Marc Randazza: Peter Thiel criticized for funding Hulk Hogan suit as revenge against Gawker gossip reporting. Randazza: It's not simple First Amendment threat; Thiel's motivations defensible when ...

How Peter Thiel’s Secret War With Gawker Came to Light Turns out that just because you're paranoid, doesn’t mean a tech billionaire who was publicly outed by your website isn’t after you.

By the end of the week, Gawker will have an outside owner for the first time in its 14-year history. But it can’t blame Peter Thiel for all of its woes.

Bankrolling the effort to bankrupt Gawker, Thiel said, is “one of my greater philanthropic things that I’ve done.” (More philanthropic, it seems, than the money he has donated to the free ...

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My old boss, Gawker Media CEO, Nick Denton, called me last month. From the deadpan affect I’d learned to decode a dozen years ago, I could tell he had some juicy tidbit. “I’ve heard that ...

Marc Randazza: Peter Thiel criticized for funding Hulk Hogan suit as revenge against Gawker gossip reporting. Randazza: It's not simple First Amendment threat; Thiel's motivations defensible when ...