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TAMPA, Fla. – Former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan sued a disc jockey, the DJ’s ex-wife and a gossip website Monday, several months after a sex tape involving Hogan and the woman was posted online.

Hogan said in two lawsuits that he had consensual sex with his best friend’s wife, Heather Clem, about six years ago in the Clems’ home, but he did not know he was being secretly recorded.

“Mr. Hogan had a reasonable expectation of his privacy, just as all Americans have a reasonable expectation of their privacy in their bedrooms,” attorney Charles Harder said.

The video was posted on the online gossip site Gawker. Hogan is seeking $100 million in damages from the New York-based media company.

In the suit against the Clems, Hogan claimed the video caused “severe and irreparable injury which cannot be adequately compensated by monetary damages.” Hogan is seeking the rights to the video in both lawsuits.

Hogan, his ex-wife and the couple’s son and daughter have appeared on the reality show “Hogan Knows Best.”

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Man accused of fraud as show ‘backer’

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. – Mark Hotton appeared on the high-stakes Broadway theater scene out of nowhere this year, offering to come to the financial rescue of a fledgling Broadway adaptation of the psychological thriller “Rebecca.”

Although the musical’s producers had never heard of Hotton, he successfully sold himself as a globe-trotting moneyman. Federal prosecutors claimed on Monday that Hotton concocted a tale of phantom investors.

Hotton, 46, also was charged in two other swindles – one targeting a Connecticut-based real estate company and another that investigators say involved his wife and sister.

A judge in federal court in Long Island ordered Hotton held without bail on Monday after prosecutors argued he was a flight risk.

In court papers, the government accused Hotton of creating a web of shell companies they likened to a Ponzi scheme that victimized people across the country to the tune of $15 million.

Hotton, a former stockbroker who lost his license last year, managed to “lull some investors into a temporary sense of security by allowing them to realize small returns on investments.

The planned $12 million production of the 1938 novel by Daphne du Maurier collapsed earlier this month amid questions about its financial backing.

 

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