A Hollywood studio and a crowd-funded conglomerate of Gawker superfans are two of the parties that are seriously interested in buying the mothballed web site, Page Six has learned.
Sources connected to the sale of Gawker.com — which sellers hope to have completed by January — say the movie studio is looking into using the site’s archives to make movies or TV series based on stories, or even the story of Gawker itself.
Meanwhile, the group of “hard-core Gawker fans” have hired a lawyer and done due diligence to prep a potential purchase.
While we’re told that Will Holden — who was hired to manage the bankruptcy after Gawker lost its landmark $140 million lawsuit with Terry Bollea, aka Hulk Hogan, in 2016 and has been tasked with selling the site — has said he will consider Gawker’s “ethos” when he decides on the buyer.
However, he has not ruled out the possibility of selling it to a malicious buyer — even Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire who funded Bollea’s suit as part of a personal vendetta against Gawker and its founder, Nick Denton, after the site outed Thiel as gay.
We’re told that no consensus has been reached on how much the site is worth.