Hulk Hogan Wants Jail Time For People He Thinks Leaked 'N-Word' Story

TMZ is reporting that, in what is not exactly a surprise, Hulk Hogan wants Gawker and A.J. Daulerio (the former Gawker writer/editor who wrote the original story about Hogan's sex tape in October 2012) investigated with regards to the leak of the racist and homophobic comments that we learned he made on a different sex tape. There is a very specific reason why he's accusing them, which goes beyond the idea that hurting Hogan's reputation could benefit Gawker when Hogan's lawsuit against them goes to trial in a few months.

As we've reported before, Gawker sued the FBI to get their records of the investigation into Keith Davidson, a Los Angeles lawyer who was alleged to have tried to extort $150,000 from Hogan to prevent the release of the three videos showing him and Heather Cole engaged in sexual relations. A judge quickly ruled in Gawker's favor, which meant that Gawker's lawyers got to see everything, including the sex tapes...but Gawker's lawyers couldn't share any of the FBI material with anyone else in the company.

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So that takes us to Hogan's lawyers filing new documents in his Florida lawsuit against Gawker, asking that Gawker and Daulerio be investigated. It was noted by TMZ that while the transcript of Hogan's comments had been filed with the court, the judge ruled it was confidential and had the filing sealed. Hogan wants anyone involved jailed and also asked for either a default judgment in the $100 million lawsuit or some functional equivalent thereof. If Gawker was actually found to have been responsible for the leak, that could actually happen, but it seems unlikely otherwise.

Gawker issued this statement to TMZ:

Hulk Hogan has only one person to blame for what he said and no one from Gawker had any role in leaking that information.