PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel ‘bankrolled’ Hulk Hogan’s legal battle against Gawker, report claims, ‘after the site tried to out the tech billionaire as gay in 2007’

Gawker founder Nick Denton told the New York Times that he suspected someone in the Silicon Valley might be financially assisting Hogan

By Regina F. Graham

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A well-known Silicon Valley billionaire businessman is allegedly the investor who backed Hulk Hogan through his legal battle against Gawker Media.