The explosion of gossip blogs at the turn of the century radically reshaped celebrity culture. Zackary Drucker's Queenmaker examines the reign of Tinsley Mortimer, Nicole Richie, Paris Hilton, and the savvy operators who reshaped media and privacy. If you devoured blogs like … [Read more...]
#4Sale: Ziff Davis Offers To Buy Bankrupt Gawker Media For $100 Million
Gawker Media, which was ordered to pay about $140 million to Hulk Hogan, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday. It is also up for sale, with a difficult future following a contentious invasion-of-privacy lawsuit brought by the former wrestler. Ziff Davis, the … [Read more...]
#LGBTQ: An Open Letter from Gawker’s Nick Denton to “Thin-Skinned Billionaire” Peter Theil
OK. Here's the back story if you don't already know it; the Reader's Digest version is that PayPal billionaire, Peter Theil has recently fessed up to funding Hulk Hogan's lawsuit of Nick Denton's Gawker, who years ago "outed" and annoyed Theil. There's a LOT more but that's the … [Read more...]
#HollywoodsChurch: If Tom Cruise Is Leaving Scientology, Who’s Left? A Complete List of Its Famous Members…
Star magazine recently claimed that ahead of Tom Cruise's new Mission Impossible installment, he was … [Read more...]
Gawker “Outs” James Franco & His “Live-In Boyfriend”
James Franco is none too happy with Gawker. They just ran an article titled "James Franco Is Living With A Man" that served as a response to a short [Read more...]
Internet Shocker!: Nick Denton & Derrence Washington Gay Married!
OK, I was trying for a sensational, click-bait headline because one of the grooms, Nick Denton, owns Gawker, among other titles, like … [Read more...]
