The Political Whore

Tampa Bay’s leading freaky celeb Terry Bollea, aka Hulk Hogan, has asked the judge in case brought against him and his family (including fellow reality-semi-star wife Linda Bollea who is trying to divorce him) by the family of accident victim John Graziano to ban us stinkin’ news media types from sitting in on the wonderfully delicious depositions in the case.

The Times reports:

The motion, filed last week in civil court, claims that allowing news media or the public into the proceedings could damage the family’s right to a fair trial and create “annoyance, embarrassment, oppression, or undue burden or expense.”

Terry Bollea, who wrestled under the name Hulk Hogan, and his family are facing a multimillion dollar civil suit from the August 2007 car crash that severely injured Graziano, a family friend. Graziano was a passenger in a sports car driven by Terry and Linda Bollea’s son, Nick Bollea.

Tampa Bay’s favorite freak, wrestler-turned-reality TV star Hulk Hogan, gives an enlightening interviewing in the latest Rolling Stone, and the NY Post has a preview that is getting heavy viral rotation. Hogan says he understands the anger that drives somebody to pull an OJ and murder their spouse in discussing his pending divorce action and breakup with wife, Linda Bollea:

“I could have turned everything into a crime scene, like OJ, cutting everybody’s throat,” he told the magazine. “You live half a mile from the 20,000-square-foot home you can’t go to anymore, you’re driving through downtown Clearwater and see a 19-year-old boy driving your Escalade, and you know that a 19-year-old boy is sleeping in your bed, with your wife . . . I totally understand OJ. I get it.”

Not hard to understand from a man who, as I documented four years ago, falsely accused his mother’s caretaker of ripping her off, putting the man into jail until charges were dropped.

Just when you thought the Hulk Hogan saga couldn’t get any wackier, the father of the soldier left in a near-vegetative state in an accident caused by Hogan’s son, Nick, is in jail, charged with plotting to kill his wife.

Ed Graziano paid more than $2,000 in cash, check and a Westshore Plaza Pizza gift card in an attempt to have his wife, Debra, killed in what was supposed to look like a car accident, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office. Tipped to his plot, Pinellas County sheriff’s detectives had an undercover deputy act as a go-between in the plot.

Graziano was jailed yesterday. And today, 10 Connects reports, Hogan’s estranged wife, Linda Bollea, believes she may have been a target of Graziano’s as well.

Bollea’s publicist tells 10 Connects “people around the case” have told Hulk Hogan’s estranged wife Graziano also made threats aimed at Bollea. After hearing about the possible threats Bollea’s publicist described her as “scared to death.”

Bollea issued a statement Thursday night saying “Any threat from Ed Graziano would and is being taken very seriously.”