Another one of Peter Thiel’s loose ends. Dead at 71

Submission statement: This morning we were all talking about how Peter Thiel seems to be trying to end Trump now that he got his tax cuts and his man on the inside. Now one of Thiel’s pawns is dead.

For people who don’t know, Gawker had two major billionaire enemies. One was Jeffrey Epstein. Back in 2015, Gawker was the only ones publishing [stories](https://archive.is/YpnaJ) about Epstein. The other was Peter Thiel, who was [mad](https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2016/06/21/peter-thiels-war-on-gawker-a-timeline/) that they outed him as gay and that he was paying [$160k/year](https://www.gawkerarchives.com/peter-thiel-is-interested-in-harvesting-the-blood-of-th-1784649830) to inject himself with the blood of a teenager. Thiel then bankrolled Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker that resulted in its demise.

Also, Epstein gave Thiel [$40M](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/business/jeffrey-epstein-peter-thiel-estate.html) in 2015 and 2016. This was *after* Gawker started publishing stories on Epstein, and was also when J.D. Vance was Thiel’s right-hand man.