Hogan had an affair with his best friend's wife. Said best friend was suspicious and placed a hidden camera in the bedroom, and some anonymous individual then leaked to sex footage to gawker. Gawker published it and were ordered by a court to take it down, they refused. Hogan is suing them and (unless they win their appeal) he will effectively own the company and will have driven Denton and the editor in chief of the time into personal bankruptcy.