because you're hulk hogan. i'm hulk hogie.n you're sitting there with your wife and kids and you're eating dinner and, "oh, hulk hogan, i want an autograph! i'm your biggest fan," and their pack of cigarettes would fall in your food. - good to see you. - how are you? - are you enjoying your steak? - i'm trying. you just had to go, "i love you, brother. i'll take that picture and sign an autograph with you after i finish eating." there was a low point in all of this where you literally had a gun in your mouth. how did you get out of that? well, i got to a point where everything kinda hit me at the same time. so how'd you get out of that? i made friends with laila ali. laila ali in some ways saved your life. i really believe that, that if she hadn't called just to say hello... it might have changed. i am totally blind. and non-24 can throw my days and nights out of sync, keeping me from the things i love to do. talk to your doctor, and call 844-214-2424. but when i started seeing things, i didn't know what was happening... so i

you're married to bubba the love sponge and you think hulk hogan is cheesy?y're in this together? >> they have to be. is is the new paradigm for thousand release a sex tape. instead of going straight to vivid and getting $1 million or $2 million, sell it to an irreputable news outlet and get millions. >> hey, i'll have sex with your wife! >> it might be part of the fetish. they might enjoy the fact of it not only being filmed but broadcast publicly. >> hulk hogan had the biggest boner during the trial. everyone's watching me, brother! (laughter) >> larry: what's amazing is erin andrews secretly filmed in her hotel room was awarded 55 million and half of that from a guy who had no money. >> hulk hogan, i don't get these guys, $140 million! >> even in privacy invasion women are getting (bleep). >> we're still earning less in bed when it comes to tremendous lease of sex tapes (applause) >> a totally different issue. the reasons for the lawsuit are totally different. >> larry: seems related to me, though. >> both are invasions of privacy. but erin andrews was sel

. >>> thank you, denis. the hulk hogan sex tape trial. he was back on the stand today for his lawsuit against gawker. >> attorneys are grilling hulk hogan on his actions. saying that the tape is not what damaged his reputation. carson chambers is live outside of the courthouse. >> reporter: right. hulk hogan claims that sex tape humiliated him, turned his life upside-down. but gawker's attorneys say that hulk hogan did a good job of embarrassing himself in public. the attorneys questioned hulk hogan for several hours today. basically things got vulgar. hulk hogan is suing the site for $100 million after it published that tape online in 2012. jurors listened to clips from hulk hogan's radio show interviews on howard stern and bubba the love sponge where he the anatomy, the sex tape and his daughter's virginity. >> we understood that we were going to howard stern and he would talk about sex and stuff. that's part of the deal. you have to say that is part of the public consumption that comes along with doing the media tour. >> reporter: gawk

>>> body hulk hogan takes on "gawker" over a leaked sex tape. the plaintiff rests its case in the $100 million courtroom itness having a tough week. >> it started off like that. >> where does hulk mania end and privacy begin? >>> first theor the best deals get to lumber liquidators spring all laminate is 10% to 20% off.9 cents. up to $2 a square foot off three-quarter inch solid prefinished hardwood and engineered hardwood. 20% off wood look tile. all lank is on sale. deals for bamboo and 18 months special financing. the best prices of the season won't last.rs today, it's worth the trip. good evening. thank you for join us. tonight a chaotic scene and the latest flash pint of the donald trump campaign to win the white house. a concern for safety trumped mpaigning in chicago forcing the gop front run tore call off his campaign rally. about it. here's abc's david wright. >> reporter: tonight in chicago a college campus suddenly erupted. police and battle because political tensions have reached a boiling point. it all started inside the university

yesterday, the lawyers tried to show the inconsistencies against hulk. gawker's lawyers may try to point that out today. hogueson suing gawker by invading his privacy by posting that sex tape online. >>> for the first time in 60 years, you can now mail a letter to cuba. the president mailed a letter wrote to him last month. president obama will travel to cuba on sunday. in his letter, he invited that woman to have coffee with him. >>> a university of california student who stabbed four other students last year was inspired by isis. the fbi believes he was self- radicalized from terrorist propaganda. a tampa police officer shot and killed him the day of the attack. all of his victims survived. investigators found isis propaganda on his laptop but say there's nothing to indicate that he was working with anyone or that he was actually directed by the terror group. >>> 4:36 right now. a massive search on lake thonotosassa is over. investigators recovered the missing man's body. >> the man's friends still have a lot of questions about how he died. >> reporter

. >> whoever wants to see the size of your penis -- >> hulk hogan suing gawker for publishing this secretly recorded video. the former wrestler famous for his signature moves in the ring is taking on a new opponent. we are inside the courthouse as the legal battle begins. >>> and from hollywood to the white house. the love story that defined the life of nancy reagan. she was a force in public and behind the scenes. would there have been a president reagan without his wife? >> doing everything we can. >> doing everything we can. letters that captured their unbreakable bond. >>> first the "nightline 5." >> if you have allergy congestion muddling through your morning is nothing new. your nose is the only thing on your mind. and to get relief, anything is fair game. introducing rhinocort allergy spray. powerful relief from your most frustrating allergy symptoms all day and all night. hasn't your nose been through enough already? try rhinocort energy spray, >>> good evening. many of us, myself included, remember watching hulk hogan's but today we saw him fighting in an entirely different arena,

because you're hulk hogan. i'm hulk hogie. when you're sitting there with your wife and kids and you're eating dinner and, "oh, hulk hogan, i want an autograph! i'm your biggest fan," and their pack of cigarettes would fall in your food. - good to see you. - how are you? - are you enjoying your steak? - i'm trying. you just had to go, "i love you, brother. i'll take that picture and sign an autograph with you after i finish eating." there was a low point in all of this where you literally had a gun in your mouth. how did you get out of that? well, i got to a point where everything kinda hit me at the same time. so how'd you get out of that? i made friends with laila ali. laila ali in some ways saved your life. i really believe that, that if she hadn't called just to say hello... it might have changed. you ever wish you weren't a motaur? sure. sometimes i wish i had legs like you. yeah, like a regular person. no. still half bike/half man, just the opposite. oh, so the legs on the bottom and motorcycle on the top? yeah. yeah, i

. >>> another day on the stand for hulk hogan. airing his dirty laundry for a second day today in a defamation suit against gawker media not. the testimony getting personal while hulk hogan was grilled by defense attorneys. carson chambers joins us with the highlights from today. carson. >> reporter: well, hulk hogan spent hours on the stand but mostly answering questions from gawker's attorneys. they say he did a great job on his own of embarrassing himself in public. >> when i found out about the sex tape, i was just dispondent. >> reporter: he claims a secret sex tape humiliated him, turned his life upside-down. >> not being able to eat or sick. >> reporter: gawker defense attorneys made sure that jurors clips where hulk hogan talked about the sex tape, his anatomy on shows like bubba the love sponge and howard stern. >> you were discussing the length of your [censor] on bubba's radio program. any doubt. >> well, it's not mine because mine isn't that size. but we were discussing the length of hulk hogan. >> reporter: he is suin

because you're hulk hogan. i'm hulk hogie. when you're sitting there with your wife and kids and you're eating dinner and, "oh, hulk hogan, i want an autograph! i'm your biggest fan," and their pack of cigarettes would fall in your food. - good to see you. - how are you? - are you enjoying your steak? - i'm trying. you just had to go, "i love you, brother. i'll take that picture and sign an autograph with you after i finish eating." there was a low point in all of this where you literally had a gun in your mouth. how did you get out of that? well, i got to a point where everything kinda hit me at the same time. so how'd you get out of that? i made friends with laila ali. laila ali in some ways saved your life. i really believe that, that if she hadn't called just to say hello... it might have changed. harvey: so, what's this? this is a card from my soulmate, jennifer. - harvey:your wife. - hulk:my wife. yes, my wife. and this is a letter she wrote me. - harvey:when was it written? - hulk:oh, my gosh. well, this letter was wr

go down as the biggest match hulk hogan ever won. a florida jury ordering the gossip news website dwauk tore pay him $115 million after the site posted sex tape featuring the former wwe star. gawker, says the fight is not l very positive about the appeal that we have already been preparing and we expect to win this case ultimately. >> thanks fornews. tune into "good morning america" tomorrow. and as always, we're online at abcnews.com and on our facebook page. good night, america. . >> it's comics your host, byron allen. welcome anthony griffifith. david crowe. and comics. and now fromn allen!

. >>> breaking news now with the hulk hogan gawker case. this is him speaking live about the punitive damages in this case. >> we're very excited and happy. >> tell us about the support from the community. i know you're on twitter. what do you see from people? >> the community knows who i am. my wwe family knows who i am and have been very supportive of me. at the end of the day it's nice to get back to be with my family and friends in the area. treat me like i'm still a champ and they have been really supportive. it's really cool to be in this community and feel the love. >> did you ever expect to see this judgment from the jury? >> i didn't know what to expect. >> it was only the right thing to do, folks, of course he did. >> reporter: all right you have been listening to hulk hogan live commenting on the punitive damages settled in his case with gawker and the sex tape case. >>> sorry, we're having technical difficulties right now. we'll get back to adam as soon as we can. there's been a verdict in the hulk hogan case. adam winer is over

hulk: oh, my gosh. she just, um-- we just kind of hit it off, and to be around somebody that was enlightened and real spiritual, which i didn't even understand. every single day now is a good day for me. i don't have good and bad days. i've got good days and i've got better days. what went through your mind when you first heard there was a sex tape out? i mean, you used the n-word in this sex tape. that was the nuclear bomb, right? yeah, it was. if this tape wasn't leaked, and suppose there was no gawker trial, you think you'd be using that word today, when you got angry? so tell me what this is. dying to see. well, this is the legal pad that i had in court with me during the gawker trial, and what i did all day long was write. i just wrote all day long. were you following the trial with this? no, i wasn't following the trial. these are just, like, affirmations, you know? "i am only victory." "perfect health." - in the middle of the trial? - "god fights and wins all battles." "still and stay centered."

." >> tonight, why this video of hulk hogan rided a wrecking ball, doing his measures as played in a court of law today. the sensational case of the wrestler versus gawker. will he win his wsuit against the website for posting his sex tape? >>> plus welcome to mariah's world. why the diva hase's invite ing cameras on her upcoming tour. what makes her show different from celebrity reality shows of years past. >>> and stiletto kerri russell and amanda sayfried hand to heel combat. new self-defense. first the "nightline 5." >>> get your penny's worth. with new suits and kids' dress-up. up to half off colorful spring get $10 off a $25 purchase with coupon. that's getting your penny's worth. >>> what's your dog food's first ingredient?t? in purina one true grain free, real chicken is number one. no corn, wheat or soy. dog's whole body health with purina one. >> number one in just 60 evening. just when you thought the courtroom spectacle that is the hulk hogan trial couldn't get the former pro the website gawker for posting a sex tape of him. today in open court the consequence fired back

>> it may go down as the biggest match hulk hogan ever won. a florida jury ordering the gossip news website dwauk tore pay him $115 million after the site posted portions of a sex tape featuring the former wwe star. but nick denton, founder of gawker, says the fight is not over. >> we feel very positive about been preparing and we expect to win this case ultimately. >> thanks for watching abc news. tune into "good morning america" tomorrow. and as always, we're online at abcnews.com and on our facebook pagege. good night, america. have a great weekend. dr. oz: today -- money, money, money. we are literally worrying ourselves sick over can. my credit clinic helps instant

. >>> the fate of hulk hogan's and gawker's sex i tape trial is up to a jury. it's been 5 hours since the jury started deliberating. courthouse. any decision yet? >> reporter: there isn't. they've been deliberating since 1:00 this afternoon after a long 2 weeks of testimony. during closing argument, each side had 90 minutes to explain their case. hogan's attorneys arguing that hulk hogan never wanted anything to do with this sex tape me didn't know it was made and definitely didn't want it posted. but gawker's attorney said they're standing by their defense that they have since their first amendment right because of how much hulk hogan spoke publicly about his sex newsworthy. >> what's disturbing about gawker subject isn't what they do in a vacuum. it's ow howe prad proud they are of it. it can't be the law of our land that every time a website tweet tweets out a photo of kim facebook that ms. kardashian that isn't the way it works. if the plaintiff were right, if posting a short, truthful video of him to accompany commentary can be the basis for claim, then th

hulk hogan takes on "gawker" over a leaked sex tape. the plaintiff rests its case in the $100 million courtroom drama. the star witness having a tough week. >> it started off like that. >> where does hulk mania end and privacy begin? >>> first the "nightline 5." lumber liquidators spring flooring sale. all laminate is 10% to 20% off. popular styles from 39 cents. up to $2 a square foot off three-quarter inch solid prefinished hardwood and engineered hardwood. 20% off wood look tile. all in-stock vinyl plank is on sale. deals for bamboo and 18 months special financing. the best prices of the season won't last. lumber liquidators today, it's worth the your home can be perfect. even when life isn't is happening now. from classic to contemporary, >>> good evening. thank you for join us. tonight a chaotic scene and the latest flash pint of the donald trump campaign to win the white house. a concern for safety trumped trump's campaigning in chicago forcing the gop front run tore what the tough-talking billionaire is saying wit about it. here'

she says her husband, bubba, asked her if she would have sex with hulk hogan, she said yes. she says she had sex with hulk hogan a few times. she says she had no idea it was broke the news. you can tell she's still [ indistinguishable ] >> now, her husband was set to testify today. that's bubba the love sponge. gawker maintains it is protected by the first amendment. >>> trending tonight across america, an appeals court says the u.s. government cannot be held responsible for the 1991 abduction of jc dugard and held captive for 18 years. dugard suing saying officials should have revoked before the patrol hearing. abduction. just 11 years old and repeatedly raped her over years and fathered two daughters with her. >>> a multimillion dollar yacht going up in flames. snapping photos of this huge blaze. this is in st. thomas. $2 million. nobody got hurt, and the cause of the fire is still unknown. >>> new tonight from orlando. big crowd at lake eola tonight for the wake a wish, wisher's walk. giving children a wish, something to help them get through. >> the wish isgq*)q)e to gra

. >>> hulk hogan is finally getting his day in court. opening statements set to begin this morning in the civil trial between hulk hogan and gawker. >> he's suing the site for millions after the sex tape released of him. abc action news reporter rodney dunigan joins us from the courthouse in st. pete. good morning, rodney. >> reporter: good morning. the jury in this case will be deciding if hulk hogan's right the release of the sex tape. his attorneys contend seven million people viewed the grainy sex tape since its release in 2012. they contend he made his sex life public with several media interviews the last few years. they posted a short clip from the full video. the six-member jury selected last week will determine if hogan's rights were violated. hogan, whose real name is terry bollea is suing gawker for $100 million for posting the tape of him and the ex-wife of a tampa radio host having sex, recorded in 2006 and released by this web site in 2012. hogan is possibly the biggest star in the wwe's history and was inducted into the ha

. >>> testimony in the hulk hogan trial ranged from shocking to embarrassing. he is suing gawker for publishing a sex tape showing him with bubba the love sponge's ex-wife. jeff patterson, sounds like a wild day of testimony in court. >> reporter: no question. the central question here is the right to privacy. and he maintains there is a difference between himself and the character hulk hogan. >> how are you feeling today terry? >> i need a cup of coffee. >> reporter: he went back to the witness stand talking about the impact the release of a sex >> i still felt like i was turning on my side over this thing. it changed me. >> reporter: gawker attorneys played an interview of hogan on the howard stern radio program and repeatedly asked bollea why he didn't stop stern from asking about the sex tape. >> i was on an entertainment show and i had to be an entertainer so i kept going. >> reporter: he revealed there were many offers for that tape. >> we had calls from vivid entertainment who does all these pornographic films and said there is an open checkbook. >> repo

a jury awards hulk hogan $115 million. >>> services for a police officer who gave his life to protect a driver from a wrong way driver. >> a passenger jet has crashed in russia. according to seveveral media reports, all 55 passengers on board are dead. >> we are told fly dubai was trying to land in southern russia when it crashed. that is a a boeing 727 passenger jet. russian media rereports that visibility there was very low. >>> and more breaking news now. eagle 8 hd is over the scene of a two alarm fire at club co the kitchen of one of the units and spread to a porch. time. >>> siding with hulk hogan. terry bollea embraced loved ones in the courtroom as the jury read the verdict, but over yet. they gave him more than what he wanted in the multimillion website gawkerer. instead of 100 million, they awarded him 150 million. newschanannel8's peter bernard is live at the courthouse in saint petersburg. it is rare you hear someone in court. >> reporter: kind ofof surprised to hear that. the jury has spoken. they believe gawker violated hulk hogan's privacy when they published a video of

>> it may go down as the biggest match hulk hogan ever won. a florida jury ordering the gossip news website dwauk tore pay him $115 million after the site posted portions of a sex tape featuring the former wwe star. gawker, says the fight is not over. >> we feel very positive about the appeal that we have already been preparing and we expect to win this case ultimately. >> thanks for watching abc news. tune into "good morning america" tomorrow. and as always, we're online at abcnews.com and on our facebook page. good night, america. have a great weekend. >> hey, everybody. stay right where you are, because in the next half hour, we just may be minting a brand-new member of america' s 1%. it' s time to play "who wants to be a millionaire." hello, i' m chris harrison. welcome to the show. are you guys ready to play today? [cheers and applause] good, because there is only one thing our returning contestant finds more relaxing than playing trivia, and that' s a good cocktail. [laughter] we do have something in common. from astoria, new york, pleas

>> it may go down as the biggest match hulk hogan ever won. a florida jury ordering the gossip news website dwauk tore pay him $115 million after the site posted portions of a sex star. gawker, says the fight is not over. >> we feel very positive about the appeal that we have already been preparing and we expect to win this case ultimately. >> thanks for watching abc news. tune into "good morning america" tomorrow. and as always, we're online at abcnews.com and on our facebook page. good night, america. have a great weekend. starts now. don't like whiskey, drink again. three things you didn't know >>> kick off the weekend with the best things to watch. >>> feed everybody, including your dog. >>> i love, love this. >>> welcome to the show, i'm tesch visa strasser. i'm donna. let's start with the three at the top of the list. >> thanks so much. can you smell this? feel it and every cell of your body. spring is almost here. and it's at number one. >> ready, i'm are deed he, i'm re-read re-ready. >> springtime for it to begin this sunday. it's abo

and hulk hogan's attorney planning to appeal that. bubba the love sponge was a no show today at court. but his ex-wife testified. she testified about the making of the sex tape. >>> this is the greatest honor of my life. marry me 28 years ago. >> an emotional merrick garland accepts president obama's nomination to the supreme court. the republican party plans to use a task force to block that nomination. they will attack garland's record and use the issue to go after democrats facing re- election. tonight we're hearing from some voters who didn't get to cast a ballot for the candidate they wanted. good eveningment i'm ashley glass. >> and i'm laura harris. wrong, plus the steps that you you. >> i kindly went up to them and i said i think you gave me the wrong ballot, i'm a democrat. >> reporter: she got a surprise when she showed up to this polling place. she intended to vote as a democrat for bernie sanders but she was listed as a republican. the 23-year-old says that has never been her party. she went to the election office to get i

just when you thought the hulk hogan trial couldn't get any more bizarre it did. the former pro wrestler is suing the website gawker for posting a sex tape of him. today in open court the consequence fired back by playing a clip of hogan swinging on a wrecking ball in a thong. here's abc's linzie janis. >> you eventually had sexual relations with mr. bollea? >> yes. >> reporter: it's the case with huge implications for celebrity privacy. >> do you recall the number of the encounters that you had with him? >> to the best of my knowledge, i can think a few times that i >> reporter: private moments splashed all over the web, then all over the media. >> there's a tape of you [ bleep ]ing heather -- >> first off, i never made a tape. >> you swear you were not in on this? >> i swear to god i wasn't. >> reporter: as ever more revealing and personal details spill out of the hulk hogan >> were any of your sexual encounters with other men recorded during the times you >> yes. >> reporter: a growing sense of just what that lost privacy can really mean. >> it's completely hum

hogan the character. >> you know hulk hogan. he is on stage. part of the act. but, he wears it because he is self-conscious about the size of his head. >> reporter: the video shows him in a very private moment. >> this has never been about anything more than ththe fact that gawker took a secret private sex tape of my client >> reporter: but gawker's attorney asked why it was never shown during the case. >> the very one that mr. bollea claims was so bad, the one that was so devastating. is suing for. >> reporter: he contends the bad. >> here, nine secondnds of sexual activity. dark grainy video, that's it. >> jeff patterson says we are expecting hundreds of pages of documements to be released in this case. we expect the documents will contain depositions from bubba revealing. we will certainly pass along that information to you. >>> and brace yourselves, a loud weekend is in store at the macdill air force base. the thunder birds and the para commandos are set to perform. now the big question is, will the weather cooperate? for th

. >>> hulk hogan trial's ends its second week. news channel 8 jeff paterson is joining us live from the courthouse. jeff, we understand things got nasty today. >>reporter: yes, good evening, keith. as if things weren't bad enough having to listen to testimony about hulk hogan private parts, we listened from attorney terry -- hammer the child pornography. >> what did you know about hulk hogan? >> that he was one of the best time. >> aj was the former editor at gawker who wrote the article that featured the hulk hogan sex tape. >> i was amused by it. >> he maintains he has a first amendment right to publish the tape. >> i was going to write what i seen on the tape and i was going to do a commentary to celebrity text tapes in general in he thought it was important to show the sex act. >> public figures with a different life. >> but during his deposition, attorneys asked delorio when will it not be appropriate to show a sex tape and he said when it's a child. he asked what is the age. he said as long as the now he said he was joking.

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that is hulk's hogan character driven. so that he went on as hulk hogan to attempt damage control. and was the experience on the radio. attacking us and with the employees who revealed their roles. >> and in the context of the story. >> and they talked about code with the giant hard return. with the exec tifr utive editor and since he spoke openly and in great detail, it was a first sent that to gawker, that could be picked up tomorrow. and the bill will establish alimony patients with a controversial provision about how much time children spend with the divorce payments based on the number of years of marriage and the couple's gross income. some saying that women would be a greater disadvantage. >> she has not built up retirement or social security. she is expected to start the next chapter of her life under a great disadvantage. and to stay together and believe when that doesn't happen they deserve what this bill gives them. >> the previous alimony reform governor stot with the concerns about retroactive to the clinicing to make the choice of state funding or elective abortions.

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