"We wanted to walk away," Houston said, staring directly at the nine jurors. "The sex tape was truly the nuclear device," he testified.Īlong with a cease and desist letter, Houston said he also made a personal plea to Denton to remove only the video footage, not Daulerio's written commentary. Houston, a Reno-based lawyer who has represented Hogan for roughly a decade, said he took a gentle approach when he attempted to get Denton and Gawker to remove the video. When they finished, Hogan's personal attorney David Houston took the stand. Related: Hulk Hogan fans - even the youth minister - on his side in sex tape trial Several took notes as the depositions played. The nine jurors were glued to the television screen positioned in front of their box. Donning a navy pinstripe blazer with his patented bandana, Hogan, 62, reclined in his seat, occasionally closing his eyes for long periods of a time.ĭaulerio sat stoically on a bench behind his attorneys while the tapes were shown in court. Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, showed little emotion throughout the hour that the depositions were shown on Wednesday, the third day of the trial at the Pinellas County Judicial Building. He said the post about Hogan was "sweet" and "sympathetic," showing him "as a person," and struck at society's "distorted views of celebrities." "I'm an extremist when it comes to that," Denton said. Jurors were also shown a deposition with Denton from the fall of 2013, during which the head of Gawker conveyed his belief in "total freedom and information transparency." He told Hogan's attorney that he wants to "know everything about society." Related: Hulk Hogan on how wrestling's 'kayfabe' went big timeĭaulerio's tape deposition ended with him giving sarcastic answers when asked where he would draw the line when it comes to publishing a celebrity's sex tape. ![]() I would say it was more to add some color to my commentary." On whether the size of Hogan's penis was newsworthy, Daulerio said: "In this case I wouldn't call it newsworthy. When an attorney asked why he wanted readers to see Hogan's penis, Daulerio replied, "That's usually what happens when people have sex." Doing so, they argue, constituted an invasion of the former pro wrestler's privacy.ĭaulerio said after receiving the sex tape from an anonymous source, he instructed Gawker's video editor to edit it down to the parts he considered "newsworthy in the context of our story." Hogan's attorneys argue that Gawker could have reported on the matter without publishing any of the video. Related: Hulk Hogan says man beneath the bandana was 'humiliated' Gawker believes that publishing the footage was newsworthy, given the extent to which Hogan has discussed his sexual exploits in public and the amount of news coverage that had already been devoted to the sex tape. In the deposition, Daulerio was repeatedly pressed on the purported newsworthiness of the sex tape - the lynchpin of Gawker's free speech defense. "In this case it was already marked NSFW and that usually indicates there there will not be safe for work material involved," Daulerio said. Related: Hulk Hogan trial testimony gets raunchy He was asked if he had ever considered pixelating the most graphic parts of the one minute and 40 second package he posted on the site.ĭaulerio, 41, responded by noting that the story, which included his own lengthy commentary, was marked as "NSFW," which stands for "not suitable for work." Why? "Because I found it very amusing," Daulerio said. In one of the depositions, recorded in 2013, Daulerio said he was "very enthusiastic" about writing about the tape, and that he "enjoyed watching the video."
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