Hulk Hogan Sex Tape Scandal: How Wrestler's "Sex in Canopy Bed" NSFW Video Could End Gawker Media Company

Gawker.com might be on its last leg.

Gawker, which is known for covering juicy stories about everybody's favorite Hollywood celebrities and media elites from the Big Apple, is in the midst of a $100 million lawsuit, which is set to go to trial next month in Florida.

The case stems back three years ago when an editor-in-chief at the website, founded by Nick Denton, published a post titled, "Even for a Minute, Watching Hulk Hogan Have Sex in a Canopy Bed is Not Safe For Work but Watch it Anyway."

Along with the post was an edited down, one minute and a half long clip of Hulk Hogan having sex with Heather Clem. In the recording, another man's voice can also be heard. The voice is believed to be Bubba the Love Sponge, who is the host of "Bubba the Love Sponge Show" and the ex-husband of Clem. Bubba and Clem were married at the time that the video was made.

After lawyers were brought in, Gawker removed the video but refused to take down the article. Hogan, whose legal name is Terry Bollea, and his lead trial counsel, Charles Harder, will be headed to a jury trial starting on July 6 in St. Petersburg.

"I have never been afraid to fight for what I think is right," Hogan said to The Hollywood Reporter. "I promised in the beginning that I would see this through to the end to hold Gawker accountable. And I will."

He also wrote, reported by CNNMoney, "Despite all attempts by the Gawker Defendants to obscure it, the law is clear that pornographic footage taken from sex tapes is the quintessential example of speech that is not a matter of legitimate public concern...The First Amendment has limitations. In Florida, it is a crime of video voyeurism to film someone naked without their permission, or to publish that footage. Doing so is against the law and not protected by the First Amendment."

In Florida, the publication of any kind of private material is only legal is it pertains to a matter of "legitimate public concern." Hogan is seeking $100 million in damages.

Gawker's counsel will be arguing that Hogan made his private life, which includes his sex life, a public mater when he talked about it on various programs.

Hogan will become the first celebrity to go to trial over a sex tape.