The other Harder client suing Gawker for defamation, freelance journalist Ashley Terrill, could not be immediately reached for comment. If in fact he has funded these cases, and he's putting his money to support principles against people who want to destroy people, all power to Peter Thiel." "There's no one else funding me, paying for me or any of that."Īyyadurai later said, "To the best of my knowledge, he is not funding me. "I know nothing of these so-called financial arrangements or any of that stuff," Ayyadurai said. Shiva Ayyadurai, who sued Gawker last month for what he described as "false and highly defamatory" stories mocking his claim to have invented email.Īyyadurai told CNNMoney that Thiel has "zero involvement in my case."
Los Angeles attorney Charles Harder, who represents Hogan, has brought two other lawsuits against Gawker this year. Joel Simon, the executive director of CPJ, said that while the group supports "the right of individuals in the United States and around the world to seek civil redress in cases of defamation," it "does not support efforts to abuse the process by seeking to punish or bankrupt particular media outlets." Gawker noted in a statement Wednesday the irony that Thiel is a "major funder of The Committee to Protect Journalists." Related: Hulk Hogan has brought second lawsuit against Gawker "If you're a billionaire and you don't like the coverage of you, and you don't particularly want to embroil yourself any further in a public scandal, it's a pretty smart, rational thing to fund other legal cases." "My personal hunch is that it's linked to Silicon Valley, but that's nothing really more than a hunch," Denton said. Gawker founder Nick Denton, who has privately suspected Thiel was behind the lawsuit, fueled the rumor in an interview this week with the New York Times.
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In March, after the Gawker trial got underway, the website LawNewz reported "that certain Tampa lawyers believe a benefactor agreed to cover Hogan's legal fees in some capacity." But until this week, it was scarcely mentioned in public.
The rumor of a possible benefactor is familiar to anyone who has covered Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker. The case will now head to an appeals court, prolonging what has become an expensive case for both Gawker and Hogan. Related: Gawker seeks rematch with Hulk Hogan
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