Thunderlips Gets 3-Count On Gawker

It’s a good day for the crows, or Hulk Hogan.  Thunderlips has won a lawsuit against the Gawker group, a cool $115 million.  The site hosted a sex tape featuring the ‘ultimate object of desire’ (why, who else?!) without his consent, worse, they refused to take it down.

The jury of four women and two men found for Hogan on all counts and awarded a total of $115 million two phases of compensatory damages:

• $60 million for emotional damages.
• $55 million for economic loss (A number his lawyers came up with based on multiplying how many people they say watched it by the $4.95 bottom end price to access the Vivid Celebs sex tape site).

Gawker is a big organisation, so this is going to put them at threat – including all of the sites they own.  You know what’s cool about this?  Jezebel.com is owned by Gawker, and this could well be their end.  Jezebel is kind of the antithesis to ManlyMovie, an overtly feminist site that caters to entertainment females would enjoy.  Gawker ‘bought out’ the blog some years back.  Oh dear.

Meanwhile, people were quick to update Wikipedia;