Six weeks before Hulk Hogan?s potentially company-killing, $100 million lawsuit against Denton?s Gawker Media goes to trial Hogan's lead attorney has slapped a fresh court action on the New York-based collection of gossip and lifestyle websites. The new lawsuit claims Gawker ?published a false and highly defamatory hit-piece Terry Bollea (Hogan?s legal name) has his case against Gawker for publishing excerpts of a grainy video in which he was caught having sex with a friend?s wife.