Hulk Hogan's Sex Tape Battle Heats Up in Court After His Death

The battle over the release of a Hulk Hogan documentary, which features clips of the late WWE star’s infamous sex tape, heated up in court this week, Us Weekly can exclusively report.

On Thursday, September 11, the company Woltz Films, who produced the doc Video Killed The Radio Star, filed court docs objecting to the recent temporary restraining order Hulk’s son, Nick Hogan, was granted blocking the release of any portion of the sex tape.

Nick, 35, sued Hulk’s former friend Bubba The Love Sponge (real name: Todd Clem), alleging he was behind the documentary. The film promises to tell behind-the-scenes details about the infamous sex tape Hulk filmed in 2006 with Bubba’s then-wife, Heather Clem.

In his lawsuit, Nick claimed footage from the sex tape was in the trailer. He said the documentary violated an agreement his late father reached with Bubba in 2012.

The court entered a temporary restraining order on September 4.

In Woltz Films’ new filing, the company said Bubba has nothing to do with the documentary nor is he a member of Woltz.

“[Bubba] is not a member nor officer of Woltz, has no control over what content is contained in the Documentary and has no ownership interest in the Documentary or Woltz,” the company said.

Woltz said the restraining order messed with the scheduled release date of Friday, September 12, through “Apple, Amazon and Google streaming services.”

Lawyers for the company argued, “Woltz is the creator and producer of the Documentary, which draws content exclusively from publicly available news coverage and other lawfully obtainable sources.”

“The Documentary is approximately 90,000 seconds in length and includes, in various small excerpts, video and images of news coverage of the sex tape obtained from currently available, online media sources that total approximately 38 seconds,” the lawyer added.

Woltz’ lawyer denied the filmmakers had the full sex tape in question.

Their motion read, “Woltz has never had, and does not have, access to the original version of the sex tape, has not obtained any actual sex tape footage from [Bubba], and did not include any actual footage of the sex tape in the documentary from [Bubba], but rather publicly available and traceable media outlets covering the story.”

The company said “because of the broad language of the [restraining order], which does not create any exception for material in the public domain or in fair use as permitted by applicable law, and the correspondence directed to Woltz and likely various other media sources, the [restraining order] creates a direct and immediate risk that Woltz’s rights could be curtailed without ever being heard at the risk of significant damages.”

Woltz said after two days of presales the film was the number one rated documentary and the 28th rated movie on iTunes.

The company asked the court to step in and help them. Woltz argued the film was protected by the First Amendment.

When contacted for comment, Nick’s legal team had no comment on Woltz’s claims.

Hulk died on July 24, 2025, at the age of 71.

As Us first reported, Nick filed court docs on Tuesday, September 9, to be named coadministrator of his late father’s estate. Hulk’s daughter, Brooke Hogan, was not named as a beneficiary to the estate. TMZ reported she asked to be removed from Hulk’s will before his death.