this is "nightline." >> tonight, hogan's heroes. the jurors speaking out about why they feel hulk hogan deserves $140 million for that sex tape lawsuit against gawker. the website's founder nick denton demanding a rematch. a story of survival. the professional basketball player whose photo touched the world after the brussels bombings. we're with him as he recovers. telling us what he stood to lose. and chilling new evidence. security sources now saying the alleged attackers spied on one of belgium's top nuclear scientists. and the hip-hop founding father. the man behind the broadway

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good evening. thanks for joining us. tonight you're about to hear from the jurors in the sex tape lawsuit

between freedom of speech and the right to privacy. in a broad was it exclusive why the jurors think hulk hole began's privacy deserves $140 million. gawker founder nick denton telling my "nightline" coanchor dan harris he's taking the case back to court. >> wait a minute! >> reporter: known for his choreographed battles and scripted banter -- >> well, let me tell you something! >> reporter: inside the wwe wrestling ring -- >> $60 million. >> reporter: hulk hogan could not control his emotions as a jury awarded him $140 million last week. >> water came pouring out of my eyes. >> reporter: the judgment against gossip news website gawker centered on portions of a sex tape posted online, hitting the embattled wrestling star against a digital media giant in a battle over the first amendment. >> if it had been gawker in a steel cage with hulk hogan, i can tell you what would happen there. >> i think this is a

and probably shouldn't be treated as using wrestling as a metaphor. >> reporter: but today nick denton, considered the bad boy in chief at gawker, fought back with his legal team preparing its appeal. >> i'm confident that this decision will be reversed or radically reduced. >> reporter: and for the first time the jurors spoke publicly about their verdict. >> gawker made it clear to everybody that they were all about crossing the line. >> reporter: this whole sex tape ordeal started back in 2007. at the time his marriage was strained and he had sex with heather clem, wife of his then best friend, a radio deejay by the name of bubba the love sponge clem. >> i knew they had an open marriage. it kind of turned into a joke. >> reporter: during the trial, hogan, whose real name is terry bollea, spoke about how a visit to clem's house that joke became real as heather grabbed his hand and led him up the stairs to the bedroom. >> bubba walked in beh

okay, you guys. i said, bubba, you're not filming this, are you? and he just lashed into me, what the hell's wrong with you, i'm your f'ing best friend, how dare you say that to me. >> reporter: hogan says he didn't believe his friend clem would have lied to him until gawker published its story along with excerpts of the video. >> they confirmed bubba was on the tape. i started violently shaking. >> reporter: hogan sued clem for making the tape but also gawker who he believed violated his privacy by posting portions of the video. >> they made a conscious decision to expose terry bollea naked and gaengaged in sex. >> reporter: gawker argued hogan is a public figure and posting a portion of the tape was protected free speech under the first amendment. >> you need a first amendment to protect speech that is controversial. >> but the conflict between the state law in a sense and the federal law, what hulk hogan is doing is suing under a florida law that says if you publish private

someone, you can recover damages from the person you published from. >> reporter: my colleague linsey janua janice sat down with members of the jury. >> what did you feel about the first amendment argument? >> it wasn't applicable. >> reporter: and they stood by their decision to punish the website. >> there's no doubt the decision we made was absolutely correct. >> if we were all in the same circumstances, how would we feel about it? >> did any of you think he might have been behind that tape? >> there's still no right to put that out there if he doesn't want it put out. >> reporter: the jurors clearly felt hogan would have acted differently if he knew he was being recorded. >> it's pretty clear it's not something you would want to put out to the public. it was things that -- i just ate and i feel bloated, i don't feel good, things you wouldn't say if you're filming a video -- >> not very hot? >> not very hot at all. >> reporter: they say even if hogan is a celebrity, he deserved privacy in the bedroom. >> he's still a human being like

his name and his face. >> people said we've wrapped ourselves in the first amendment. but he's wrapped himself up in the public's very justifiable concern for their personal privacy. >> reporter: nick kenton, founder of gawker media, stands by his company's decision to post that video. >> this has got nothing to do with privacy. this is all about publicity. the sex tape that we talked about, he didn't like our story. >> isn't there a difference between talking about his sex life as a public figure and showing him actually having sex? >> i don't think we were particularly revealing anything that hadn't already been talked about or even shown. >> reporter: denton says the tape was newsworthy because hogan made it newsworthy by talking about his sex life throughout his career. >> do you think if you're famous and you talk about your sex life and a sex tape emerges, that journalists have a right to post it? >> i think everything has to be proportionate. but in hulk hogan's case, it wasn't simply this celebrity

affair in his book. >> reporter: hogan even discussed the sex tape "the howard stern show." >> there's a tape of you [ bleep ]ing heather -- >> first off, i never made a tape. >> you swear you were not in on this? >> swear to god i wasn't. >> if you are going to live in character and that's going to be your character, you're going to open yourself up to more examination than an ordinary person leading a quiet life. >> reporter: denton says he's confident the judgment will be thrown out on appeal in part because of the evidence that was not allowed into the trial. >> you have said that the jurors didn't get to hear key evidence. >> i think the jury had a right to hear from bubba clem, to hear how much hulk hogan knew about this whole arrangement. >> reporter: clem told the fbi that hogan knew he was being recorded, though he later recanted, and he did not testify at trial. >> the person who made this tape, who arranged the whole situation, paid $5,000 in settlement to hulk hogan.

and the promise to help hulk hogan in his case against gawker. i think it puts a lot of things in context. >> reporter: denton says he believes hogan's lawsuit was an attempt to suppress another recording, one of hogan using racist language directed towards his daughter's boyfriend at the time. >> he had complained using pretty brutal language about the black man that his daughter was dating. >> reporter: the consequences of that tape were devastating for hogan. the wwe fired him after it leaked and wiped him from wwe history. hogan hopes this verdict can help propel him back into the ring, telling tmz he would jump at the chance. >> i'd love to hit vince mcmahon in the nose! >> reporter: hogan has not been reinstated by wwe and with that appeal still looming, he may never see a cent from gawker. but he maintains the case was never about the money. >> my original intention was to do what was right. al i

and become actually journalists and legitimate journalists. >> reporter: ironic as it might seem that responsibility is something denton says he takes seriously. >> it was one of the few honest things i think that have been said or been written about hulk hogan. he's such a character. he's been living in character almost all his professional life. and in a way he's a sign of the society that we're moving into this which people are not simply actors, but their whole lives are performances. >> reporter: while gawker might get a bad rap, denton insists it's for all the right reasons. >> hulk hogan is very charming on the stand. but he's been shown to have lied on the stand as much as he's a charming liar. we were a bunch of honest jerks. >> reporter: for "nightline," this is dan harris in new york. up next, terry moron on the ground for us in brussels. were the alleged

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the investigation into the terror attacks in brussels tonight taking a chilling nuclear twist. while the community of molenbeek, which many call a jihadi enclave, feels misunderstood. yet one victim of the terror, the pro basketball player whose poignant image touched hearts around the world, shares his experience in the moments after the airport bombing. here's abc's chief foreign correspondent terry moran. >> it happened so quick. just a deafening boom! ceiling starts falling. you don't really know what's happening. >> reporter: tonight in a brussels hospital, sebastian bellin says he

alive. he was hit by the bomb blasts during tuesday's terrorist attacks at the airport here. >> because i fell to the ground, when the second explosion went on, all the shrapnel missed me i think. but my leg was just complete ly severs, i was in shock. i tried to move as quick as i could but i couldn't move anything. >> reporter: we visited the former oakland university basketball player. >> the whole -- the whole time i was just -- just trying to tell myself, i'm going to make it, i'm going to make it, i'm going to make it. when i got to the ambulance, i knew i was good. but until then -- no idea. >> reporter: brussels is wounded too. and the city is now trying to recover as well, following the attacks at the brussels airport and the molenbeek train station that killed at least 31 people and left at least 300 injured.

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you know, it's not just the hottest ticket on broad way. it's a mind-blowing mix of hip-hop and american history. tonight we go back to the beginning. hamilton's miranda shares his inspiration. here's katie couric. ♪ >> reporter: it's the hottest ticket in town. broadway's smash hit "hamilton." and it's already sold out until next january. >> i have about ten different pinch me moments a day. >> reporter: the idea for a hip-hop musical about a founding father came to miranda on a vacation. >> you're picking up alexander hamilton, this big tome. when did it strike you that, wow, this is musical theater? >> end of the second chapter. i got to the end of the second chapter, it reads like a dickens novel. >> reporter: miranda had to sell the cce

audiences, including this one at the white house. at first people didn't know how to respond, right? >> a concept album about the life someone i think embodies hip-hop, treasury secretary alexander hamilton. >> you see me set it up and everyone laughs. by the end you see them kind of get sucked in by the story of it. >> reporter: the accolades soon started rolling in. miranda accepting a grammy like only he can. ♪ we adore you sebastian daddy's bringing home a grammy for you most ♪ >> reporter: he says he's a natural performer. stealing the spotlight from a very early age. >> i really fell in love with musicals by doing them. i got to be bernardo, captain hook, and conrad birdie in "bye-bye birdie." which was the killer because suddenly i'm 12 years old, 3 feet tall. every girl in my grade has to pretend to be in love with me. ♪ i'm doing this, whatever this is, i'm doing this for the rest of my life. >> reporter: to say it's worked out would b

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