A terrible weekend is turning into an even worse Monday for Gawker Media founder Nick Denton. The 49-year-old Denton, who built his privately held company into a multi-million-dollar media enterprise and at one point was said to have an estimated personal net worth of over $100 million, is filing for personal bankruptcy in New York federal court to protect himself from instant penury. This, after a Florida judge ruled on Friday that Gawker and Denton must start paying celebrity wrestler Hulk Hogan the $140.1 million a Florida jury...
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