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Gawker’s Nick Denton: I Paid Big Money for “McSteamy” Sex Tape

Peter Kafka in Media on September 24, 2009 at 8:49 am PT

Earlier this year, Gawker Media’s Nick Denton announced that he was going to start paying for salacious clips, tips and other submissions, but that he hadn’t worked out the details. Looks like he figured it out: Denton says he paid the source who provided his blog network with the so-called “McSteamy” sex tapes that have earned him both a lot of traffic and a lawsuit.