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Gawker's former editor shocks courtroom with sarcastic response | Gawker's former editor shocks courtroom with sarcastic response |
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AJ Daulerio, Gawker's former editor-in-chief, shocked a Florida courtroom on Wednesday when he sarcastically said that nearly all celebrity sex tapes are fair game — unless the subject is four-years-old. | |
Daulerio is a key witness in Hulk Hogan’s $100 million lawsuit against Gawker Media for publishing a sextape with his former bestfriend's wife back in 2012. | |
Lawyers for Hogan, whose goverment name is Terry Bollea, played a videotaped deposition on Wednesday where Daulerio was asked if he could “imagine a situation where a celebrity sex tape would not be newsworthy?” | |
“If they were a child,” Daulerio replies. | “If they were a child,” Daulerio replies. |
“Under what age?” the lawyer asks. | “Under what age?” the lawyer asks. |
“Four,” Daulerio said sarcastically in the clip recorded last April. | “Four,” Daulerio said sarcastically in the clip recorded last April. |
Gawker Media later issued a statement to The New York Times saying that Daulerio was sarcastic. | Gawker Media later issued a statement to The New York Times saying that Daulerio was sarcastic. |
"He'd just said in the prior answer that he wouldn't post a tape of a child and when the question was repeated he obviously made the point in a flip way, because his answer was already clear," the statement read. | "He'd just said in the prior answer that he wouldn't post a tape of a child and when the question was repeated he obviously made the point in a flip way, because his answer was already clear," the statement read. |
Gawker's lawyers have argued that the company is protected by the First Amendment because Hogan is a public figure. |