Thiel: I Made Plan to Cripple Gawker

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Updated Apr. 13, 2017 3:59PM EDT / Published May 25, 2016 9:44PM EDT

Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley investor who was reported to have been backing Hulk Hogan financially in his lawsuit against Gawker, revealed that he was in fact the person doing it, in an interview with The New York Times. Thiel, a cofounder of PayPal and a delegate in California for Donald Trump, claimed that he wanted to bring Gawker down because the gossip website outed him as gay years ago.

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Thiel: I Made Plan to Cripple Gawker

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