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hulk hogan could hold his own in the ring but how about the courtroom the wrestlers in the midst of a hundred million dollar legal battle with the website Gawker over a leaked sex tape and now his former wife says he doesn't deserve a penny here's ABC's Lindsay here's one Hogan matchup where the outcome is for one completely up in the air you didn't ask them to see the sex tape they did you did not today was day five of the sensational trial pitting the former WWE star against Gawker Haley wants to have sex with you it started out like that Hogan whose real name is Terry Bollea is suing the gossip site for posting a portion of a 2007 tape of him having sex with Heather Klem the then wife of his former best friend radio shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge Clem then Heather just kind of started with Beth and pulled my hand Hogan seeking 100 million dollars for the alleged invasion of privacy claiming he didn't know he was being filmed there's a tape of you Heather first off I've never made a tape but Gawker arguing that he's a public figure and as journalists they enjoy First Amendment rights to cover private matters about public figures this case is really about a news organizations ability to join a national conversation on it on a topic that's in the news in this particular case Hulk Hogan spent years talking in graphic detail about his sex life Gawker not the only ones lacing into the ex-wrestler he has no regret he has no shame in his game Hogan's ex wife Linda telling Inside Edition just this week that she doesn't believe he deserves a dime in his lawsuit against Gawker I want the world to know how I feel about him I don't know how he could do this to his family to his peers to the world today Hogan's lawyers arguing this isn't about Hogan's morals but Gawker's putting its very culture on trial reading emails between AJ delario then editor-in-chief and a young woman pleading to have Gawker take down a video showing her having in her initial email she writes I am the girl in it and it was stolen from me and put up without my permission he later writes to the young woman it's not getting taken down it's a dumb mistake you made happens to the best of us ultimately the tape was taken down the more evidence that they can present that Gawker leaders behaved badly or recklessly the better chance they have of getting a big verdict from this jury the defense making the argument that Hogan's sex life is fair game because he's disgusted publicly before playing a radio show cliff where Hogan discusses the size of his manhood with shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge but this morning in court Hogan's team bringing out claims of their own the Internet expert testifying that Gawker made fifteen point four million dollars from posting the sex tape Gawker disputes that today's testimony is focusing on how much should this jury award if they believe that Gawker should be found liable I don't believe for a second that Gawker made fifteen million dollars plus just on having this tape the man behind the post that same editor-in-chief at the time AJ delario here in a recorded deposition saying he received it from an anonymous source lawyers asking him is there any celebrity sex tape he wouldn't consider newsworthy but Gawker calling the outrageous remark flip saying it was made only after he'd already said he wouldn't post a tape of a child while he may have been flipped and he may have been sarcastic and he may not have meant it at all when you're in a deposition your words matter and your words can be used against you lawyers also asking Gawker founder Nick Denton whether he thought posting the video would be distressing to Hogan browse through gawker.com today and on its front page mostly political coverage noticeably missing are the more salacious stories the site was once famous for Hogan's team put a journalism professor on the stand Mike Foley from the University of Florida who testified that Gawker is practicing unethical journalism but lawyers for Gawker tried to bodyslam him since 1973 correct that approximately correct and even theme to get him to agree with some points of their argument gossip columns they too are protected under our First Amendment even if you don't think they're doing good right we don't the press the beginnings of the sex tape ordeal started when Hogan was in the midst of shooting a reality show called Hogan knows best he says he and his then wife Linda drifted apart but he had a friend who he says always had his back he was holding my father's my father passed away so there was never any question of you know who he was or what he meant to me his name's Bubba Klem that shock jock in Florida Hogan says his best friend proposed an unusual method to make him forget his troubles Haley wants to have sex with you or Heather wants to see the size of your it started out like that heather was Clem's wife of a clam past you and do you recall the graduation Hogan says he initially laughed it off I knew they had an open marriage because he talked about it on the radio but I thought with me it was so many times that they talked to her into the jello but at his lowest point he says he called his friend Clem she basically said I'm filing for divorce all I did was call Bob up and I was just crying like a baby on phone I just broke down when Bubba says hey man come over to the house you know it's hot you know I was just so desperate I went over there moments after Hogan arrived he says clams wife grabbed his hand and led him up the stairs to the bedroom from the feeling I had us probably you're not telling us like and he just flashed in me best friend how dare you say that to me but five years later a tape of that night is posted by Gawker Hogan says he didn't even believe his friend Clem was in on this either until later that day a bombshell when they come from the bubbles on the tape and bubble went up and turn the camera off and Bubba told Heather that this is for overtime Heather it just I just started violently shaking he later settled a lawsuit with Clem who apologized for stating that Hogan knew he was being taped but Hogan has refused to settle this one saying Gawker by publishing the tape violated his privacy they made a conscious decision to expose Terry Bollea naked and engaged in sex and having private conversations I think it's a very hard argument to make to say well I'm entitled to my privacy when I decide to be Terry Bollea as opposed to Hulk Hogan but now his private life for better or worse back in the limelight as his legal team rests its case how do you feel and it's not over yet the battle continues next week as the defense presents their case for Nightline I'm Lindsay Janis in Saint Petersburg Florida you