Hulk Hogan sues gossip site Gawker for $100million after sex tape leaked of former wrestler with best friend’s wife

Former pro-wrestler Hulk Hogan sued a disc jockey, the DJ’s ex-wife and a gossip website today after a sex tape involving Hogan and the woman was posted online. Hogan said in two lawsuits that he had consensual sex with his best friend’s wife, Heather Clem, about six years ago in the Clems’ home, but he did not know he was being secretly recorded.

‘Mr Hogan had a reasonable expectation of his privacy, just as all Americans have a reasonable expectation of their privacy in their bedrooms,’ attorney Charles Harder said. The video was posted on the online gossip site Gawker. Hogan is seeking $100 million in damages from the New York-based media company, which declined comment.

It’s unclear who gave the video to Gawker. In the suit against the Clems, Hogan claimed the video caused ‘severe and irreparable injury which cannot be adequately compensated by monetary damages’.