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Gawker and its investment bankers are now soliciting acquisition offers for the company. Gawker’s business and its plan to sell itself in bankruptcy would suffer, they said. Stuart Bernstein, bankruptcy court judge for the southern district of New York, declined on Tuesday to extend the shield.Īttorneys for Gawker argued that without the shield, Denton would be distracted by his own personal bankruptcy process. The court had only agreed to give Denton temporary protections. Gawker, a US internet publisher, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in June after Hogan won a $140m judgment against the company over the publication of excerpts from a sex tape, $125m of which Denton is liable for, according to court filings.Īttorneys for Gawker had asked the court for the same protections for its founder, including a shield from lawsuits. 'We will have our day back in appeals court, and we will be vindicated.'Ĭontact Katie Mettler at or (813) 226-3446.Thiel did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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'We have had our day in trial court, and we lost,' he wrote in the statement. 'Once you get that, you took yourself out of being news folks and being prurient,' Goldberg said.ĭenton didn't have time for much retort, but the co-hosts did acknowledge the founder's pledge to appeal the jury's verdict.ĭenton outlined his thoughts further in a post he wrote earlier this week on Gawker. Host Whoopi Goldberg immediately fired back, telling Denton she respects the newsworthiness of writing about the existence of the sex tape, but that in her opinion - and the jury's - posting the nude footage was over the line.

'Even in this country, you are supposed to be able to read freely and write freely.' To an extent it's not to my taste,' Denton said. 'It's not to everybody's taste, I'll be the first to admit that. When he said something similar on the View, the co-hosts were quick to shut him down. He said he wouldn't post a sex tape of a child. In a deposition video played for the jury, AJ Daulerio, the former Gawker editor responsible for posting the sex tape excerpt and writing the accompanying narrative, told the jury that not all celebrity sex tapes are inherently newsworthy. He did admit, though, that one of the trial's most shocking exchanges was damning to Gawker's case. He emphasized that the post has already been found newsworthy by a federal judge and in a court of appeals. 'We posted 9 seconds of sexual activity in an excerpt of a much, much longer tape, that was in the context of a story.' Then he split hairs about the content of the story. In response, Denton said Gawker actually made no money at all off the post, which featured no ads. The jurors had harsh words for Denton, saying he had no heart or soul and that the motives for posting the video were entirely money driven.

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Just before Denton's live appearance on Good Morning America, an exclusive segment aired featuring an interview will all six of the Pinellas County jurors who sided with Hulk Hogan (real name Terry Bollea), agreeing that Gawker's 2012 posting of a video featuring the professional wrestler having sex with the wife of his former best friend was an invasion of privacy. Related: Hulk Hogan talks to 'Good Morning America' about his trial victory over Gawker Media