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Former Gawker editor AJ Daulerio shocked the courtroom on Wednesday when he sarcastically said that nearly all celebrity sex tapes are fair game — unless the subject is four-years-old. 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 his sextape with his former bestfriend's wife back in 2012. Hogan’s attorneys 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?” 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, whose goverment name is Terry Bollea, is a public figure. Gawker's lawyers have argued that the company is protected by the First Amendment because Hogan is a public figure.