'Gawker.com' goes to the sports news site · Bleacher Report co-founder

The news site "Gawker (Goker)" which posted a private video of Mr. Hulk · Hogan, a prominent professional wrestler, whose bankruptcies are going to be bankrupt, is a co-founder of the sports news site · Bleacher Report by bankruptcy auction I realized that I got into the hands of Mr. Brian Goldberg. The price is less than 1.5 million dollars (about 170 million yen).

Gawker.com sold to Bleacher Report co-founder Bryan Goldberg in bankruptcy auction
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Gawker Media which operated "Gawker" also has 7 media in total including "Gizmodo" of IT news site and "Kotaku" of game news site, "Deadspin" "Jazebel" "Lifehacker" "Jalopnik" It was an online media company to operate.

In 2012, an incident occurred that Hula Hogan, professional wrestler 's private sex situation was shot and sold to the gossip site. In response to Gawker who posted images, Mr. Hogan requested compensation of damages of 100 million dollars (about 7.9 billion yen at the time at that time) as being a privacy violation. Mr. Hogan won the trial with the help of court costs by PayPal co-founder Peter Tiel who also had experience hurt by honor by Gawker. Gawker was ordered to pay compensation of 140 million dollars (about 15 billion yen) exceeding the amount billed, and it went bankrupt.

GIKMODO and Lifehacker operating company Gawker bankrupt in the issue of Hulk Hogan's sex video - GIGAZINE

A bankruptcy auction was held by bankruptcy law application, the seven sites under the umbrella of Gawker Media were bidding for 135 million dollars (about 14.5 billion yen) by the American Spanish television network company Univison, and "Gizmodo Media Group" I renamed it.

Acquisition of Gawker, a company that got bankrupted by Hulk · Hogan's exposure article, was decided - GIGAZINE

However, the gossip site "Gawker" that posted Mr. Hogan's article was unable to deal with "too poisonous" such as deletion of 6 articles which Univision was under dispute, returned to bankruptcy property, August 2016 It was announced as "site stop after 1 week" on 18th, the last article was posted on August 22nd 2016 and renewal was completed.

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Brian Goldberg, known as the co-founder of the sports news site · Bleacher Report, got "Gawker" at the bankruptcy auction held again. When launching the women's information site · Bustle in 2013, Valleywag dealing with the Silicon Valley gossip, which Gawker Media had runs, said, " Who is going to buy this $ 6.5 million (at that time rate Is it about 650 million yen)? There is experience which was ridiculed as ? The bidding amount was less than $ 1.5 million (about 170 million yen).