Hulk Hogan's son just sued over sex tape documentary. A Florida judge responds
Published in Entertainment News
MIAMI — Hulk Hogan has scored his first victory six weeks after his death.
On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Tom Barber in Tampa issued a temporary restraining order to block the use of a years-old sex tape in an upcoming documentary about the wrestling icon.
Hogan’s son Nick Bollea (Hulk’s real last name) had filed a lawsuit two days earlier attempting to stop the release of “Video Killed the Radio Star: The Untold Story of the Hulk Hogan Sex Tape Scandal.” The trailer for the Apple TV+ movie is currently available online, and is set to drop Sept. 12.
“You think you know the real story,” reads the doc’s cryptic description. “You don’t know anything.”
The flick focuses on the drama after Hulk was secretly videotaped having sex with Heather Clem, then the wife of Todd Clem, aka DJ Bubba the Love Sponge, at the couple’s home in 2007.
The video was leaked five years later to now defunct Gawker Media, which published it on various sites. Hogan subsequently sued Gawker and was awarded millions in compensatory damages in an historic invasion of privacy case.
In Tuesday’s suit viewed by TMZ, Bollea claims the doc contains “unauthorized images and video footage” of the late entertainer. Bubba is named in the suit, accused of helping to develop the film using Hulk’s trademarks without permission, and of violating a settlement agreement.
Before the restraining order was issued, Bubba said he didn’t know why he was listed as a defendant and denied having any ownership of the Apple TV+ project.
But the judge on Thursday disagreed. In his seven-page ruling, Barber said Bubba had been involved in developing the film and noted that the media personality was the one who surreptitiously recorded Hulk in “consensual private conduct,” then transferred it to a DVD.
As per the order, Bubba is prohibited from promoting the movie and discussing it on his program.
Before the restraining order was issued, Bubba had been talking up a storm, calling the suit “garbage.”
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