![]() 'Gawker found just the solution,' reads Hogan's complaint. Hogan's current lawsuit claims that Gawker had threatened to release the transcript of his racist rant on their site, but instead gave it to the National Enquirer and Radar Online. 'Gawker, having become aware through discovery in the Prior Action that other surreptitious recordings seized during the FBI sting operation purportedly contained racially insensitive statements by Plaintiff, used the Gawker-FBI Action to try to gain access to video and/or audio footage of Plaintiff making such statements, so Gawker could use such statements against Plaintiff to destroy him publicly and as leverage to try to force Plaintiff to settle or drop his claims heading into a jury trial in the Prior Action.' ![]() 'It became clear that Gawker misrepresented the reason why it was seeking discovery of the FBI extortion investigation and operation,' Hogan says in his lawsuit. Hogan argues that Gawker asked to obtain copies of the sex tapes and transcript to hurt him using the Freedom of Information Act. Not good: The transcript from the 2007 tape was published in July in which Hogan calls his daughter Brooke's then boyfriend a 'n*****' (Brooke and boyfriend Stacks in 2009)
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