Inside Hulk Hogan's scandals and controversies inside and out of the wrestling ring through his decades in the public eye, before his death on Thursday, July 24 at age 71.

Hogan sued Gawker over the publication of the video in what became a long-running, multi-million dollar lawsuit bankrolled by billionaire tech mogul Peter Thiel. Hogan eventually won the case, and Gawker agreed to a $31 million settlement which eventually led to the website going bankrupt.

Hogan, real name Terry Gene Bollea, was born in Augusta, Georgia, in 1953 and raised in Tampa. Though Hogan attended wrestling shows growing up in Florida, he started his career in entertainment as a musician,