During Gawker trial, Heather Clem tearfully recalls sex with Hulk Hogan

Hulk Hogan was a publicity hound who couldn’t resist the cameras — even after his sex tape surfaced, the woman in the raunchy footage testified Wednesday.
Heather Cole tearfully recalled in a taped deposition played for a Florida jury her frustration after Hogan went on a media blitz following the video’s publication on Gawker in 2012.
The grainy, edited footage showed Cole having sex with Hogan, who at the time was the best friend of her kinky hubby, shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge.
“I felt more embarrassed,” she said of Hogan’s public comments about the tape. “I wanted it to go away.”
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Cole, 41, added that in her opinion, the pro wrestling superstar enjoyed publicity.
She said that she agreed to sleep with Hogan at her husband’s behest in 2006 — contradicting the wrestler’s earlier statement on the stand that Cole had hounded him for sex.
“I was asked to go to Mr. Bollea’s room by my husband, and I did,” Cole said, using Hogan’s real name, Terry Bollea.
Her tearful testimony was the most damning moment yet for Hogan, 62, during the two-week trial. Hogan is suing Gawker for $100 million, arguing the publication of the video represented an invasion of his privacy and damaged his personal life.

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Hulk Hogan says the sex tape was filmed without his permission.

But Cole’s deposition painted a picture of a pervy household during her marriage with Bubba, who was born Todd Alan Clem. Hogan was a regular.
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“Did Mr. Clem generally pick who you had sex with?” she was asked during the deposition shown to the St. Petersburg, Fla., jury.
“On the occasion that I had sex with someone other than him, yes,” Cole replied.
But, Cole said, she and the former WWE heavyweight champ were unaware they were being filmed in a bedroom at Bubba’s home — one of at least three occasions she slept with the Hulkster.
When she realized Bubba, 49, had recorded the deed she became upset and demanded the video be destroyed, Cole said.
She thought Bubba — whom she later divorced — had complied with her request until the tape appeared on Gawker. Clem now goes by Heather Cole.
Bubba’s attorney has said he will invoke the Fifth Amendment and not testify in the case. He and Hogan reportedly settled a lawsuit stemming from the leak of the sex tape for $5,000.

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Gawker lawyer Michael Sullivan defended the site's former editor-in-chief A.J. Daulerio, saying Hogan's boasting about his sex life diminished his right to privacy.

Earlier, an expert testifying for Gawker said that the site earned all of $10,000 from the post that could potentially leave it bankrupt.
Tech consultant Peter Horan said that since advertisements did not run alongside the popular sex tape post, earnings were minimal.
“This is the type of post that scares off more advertisers than (it) attracts,” Horan said.
Under cross-examination, Hogan's attorneys countered that the story that received 5.4 million visits was valuable to Gawker in ways that couldn't be calculated through traffic alone.
“I just took the traffic at face value,” Horan said.
He analyzed data that found Gawker earned $8,200 from visitors who went from the Hogan post to other pages on the website. Gawker earned a paltry $2,762 from people who went from the sex tape post to other websites.
The testimony will be used by jurors to calculate damages if they find Gawker committed wrongdoing by posting the tape.
Hogan says the sex was recorded without his permission.
Gawker argues that Hogan is a public figure who has a limited right to privacy due to his larger-than-life persona and frequent boasts about his sex life.