![]() Honestly, my own sex tapes were better produced than the sex tapes these wealthy celebrities were making. Leonard Maltin (Film critic): Prior to the Hulk Hogan sex tape, celebrity sex tapes had been crude, grainy, barely arousing affairs that really just made you feel ashamed for even watching them. So I went back to my condo, hung the onion rings artwork over my fireplace, and popped the disc in. ![]() Written in Sharpie on the disc were the words “TRUE LOVE.” I was immediately intrigued. Daulerio: Later that day I was coincidentally stealing a framed poster of onion rings from a local Burger King to decorate my condo and a DVD-R disc fell out from behind it. So I taped it to the wall in a Burger King behind a framed photo of some onion rings and left a trail of clues involving windmills and cows.Ī.J. Clearly this was meant to be a clue, but what did it mean?īubba the Love Sponge Clem (Radio personality, husband of Heather Clem): I was trying to tip off Gawker that I had a sex tape of my wife and the Hulkster getting it, but I didn’t want them to know the tape was coming from me. The only guy who came to mind was Hulk Hogan, the strongest and blondest man on earth. I sat there for a while trying to figure out who could be strong enough to strangle a cow, because their throats are very hard to squish. I walked to the nearest windmill and there was a cow inside. Inside was a sheet of paper with the word “WINDMILL” written on it in purple marker and nothing else. Daulerio (Former editor-in-chief, Gawker): In May of 2012, I received an envelope in the mail with no return address. This is the oral history of Gawker’s Hulk Hogan sex tape controversy. ![]() The clip featured only 10 seconds of explicit sexual material, but the aftermath of its publication would reverberate for years to come, forever changing the rules of the internet and the boundaries of free speech. In October 2012, a two-minute excerpt from a six-year-old sex tape featuring Terry Gene Bollea, professionally known as Hulk Hogan, and Heather Clem, wife of radio personality Bubba the Love Sponge Clem, was published on the celebrity gossip site Gawker. ![]()
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