Tragic Details About The Hogan Family

Terry Bollea, recognized by many as wrestling icon Hulk Hogan, is likely one of the most recognizable males on your complete planet. From the purple and yellow coloration scheme to the bandana and mustache mixture, it is exhausting for somebody like Hogan to remain out of the general public eye. It is due to this that, together with The Hulkster, his rapid household have gone on to turn into real celebrities in their very own proper.

The Bollea household was the topic of the truth TV exhibits “Hogan Is aware of Finest,” and later “Brooke Is aware of Finest” which primarily adopted his daughter Brooke round throughout her day-to-day life. Whereas these collectively ran for a complete of 4 years on VH1, the relations haven’t been in a position to get out of the highlight in recent times, and it isn’t all the time been for the correct causes. 

Hogan himself nonetheless makes occasional appearances in WWE, with the latest being on the January 6, 2025 episode of “WWE Uncooked,” which additionally acted as WWE’s official debut on Netflix, the place he was booed out of the constructing by the followers in Los Angeles, California, one thing that The Hulkster wasn’t even that shocked about. He’s nonetheless a presence each week within the type of his “Actual American Beer” firm being an official sponsor of WWE, however the truth that Hogan, one of many individuals who took WWE into the mainstream, merely dismissed the unfavorable response he acquired exhibits simply how polarizing he, and his household, can really be.

There’ve been scandals, quite a few issues with the regulation, and inner household feuds which have all made the headlines over time, all of which will probably be lined right here, in addition to some members of Hogan’s prolonged household, who have gotten much more tragic life tales than some folks might need initially suspected.

Since we have already talked about her, let’s start with Hogan’s daughter Brooke, who can also be partly the rationale why the Bollea household is within the information once more.

To place it merely, Brooke’s relationship with each of her mother and father is extraordinarily fractured. As just lately as March 2025, Brooke’s mom Linda revealed that she hadn’t really spoken to her daughter in virtually eight years, to the purpose the place Brooke did not inform both of her mother and father that she had given start to twins, one thing that her mom was very damage by. Linda blamed this on Brooke’s relationship along with her dad, which is nearly as dangerous as her relationship along with her mother, with Linda claiming that Brooke and Terry had a large bust-up that led to her slicing each of her mother and father out of her life.

Brooke did go to bat for her dad in 2015 when he was caught up in a intercourse tape scandal that outed him as being a racist (he legitimately mentioned that he was a racist), as he had an issue with Brooke courting a black man. Brooke would additionally miss her dad’s wedding ceremony to his now third spouse, yoga teacher Sky Day by day, stating on Instagram that she wished to create some house between herself and her household in an effort to heal correctly.

What’s she therapeutic from precisely? Based on Brooke, she suffered years of emotional, verbal, psychological, and bodily abuse throughout her childhood, with Brooke’s mom being the principle wrongdoer as Brooke claimed “abuse is available in all styles and sizes.” Linda has denied these allegations, however it’s not trying probably that Brooke will ever make peace with both of her mother and father now that she is fortunately married and a mom to 2 kids, who she gleefully shares photos of on her social media pages.

Conserving with the connection between Brooke and Linda, the previous Mrs. Hogan hasn’t had it straightforward in terms of her private life in recent times.

After Brooke alleged that she had suffered years of abuse, primarily by the hands of her personal mom, Linda clapped again along with her personal allegations, stating that her daughter had as soon as damaged her collarbone and that she had a number of different tales of her daughter having an extreme ingesting drawback. All of this was ultimately shot down by Brooke, who supplied proof that she did not have a difficulty with alcohol and that her mother was merely mendacity to try to deflect among the warmth away from her.

As for her ex-husband, Linda has no time for the WWE Corridor of Famer. In the identical TMZ article the place she defined her relationship with Brooke, Linda known as The Hulkster a intercourse addict, and a liar, and that her whole household is an entire mess. Linda, who has not re-married for the reason that divorce she filed for was finalized in 2009, claimed that she by no means desires to get married ever once more, however continues to be unhappy on the state of her household, and has given Hogan a number of probabilities to try to repair what she believes he has damaged.

Whereas she has not gotten married once more, Linda did make the information in 2012 when she obtained engaged to her associate, Charlie Hill, on an episode of “{Couples} Remedy.” The explanation the engagement made the information was because of the couple’s age hole, with Linda being 52, and Charlie being 23, and the truth that their relationship began when Charlie was nonetheless solely 19. After calling off the engagement, Linda was arrested in October 2012 for driving underneath the affect however was later launched after she managed to put up bail.

The primary member of the family not associated to The Hulkster by blood, Steven Oleksy has solely been a member of the Bollea household for 3 years, marrying Brooke in 2022. Nevertheless, because of the ongoing feud between his spouse and his mother-in-law, the previous defenseman for the Washington Capitals and the Pittsburgh Penguins has ended up getting concerned within the household drama as properly.

Concerning Linda’s feedback about Brooke’s reported alcohol drawback, Oleksy stepped in by posting on his personal Instagram account to clear up any confusion that had been induced and to additionally stand by his spouse amidst all of the abuse she was receiving from her mom. Oleksy would not even confer with Linda by her identify, merely calling her “Jane Doe,” and defined that he noticed the emotional toll the feud between Brooke and Linda had taken on his spouse, and the remainder of the Bollea household, and easily wished to try to put an finish to it. Contemplating that every part appeared to calm down on the time of writing, Oleksy might need really managed to defuse the scenario by merely specializing in his family.

Outdoors of the household drama he has discovered himself in, the one a part of Oleksy’s life that would thought-about “tragic” is the truth that he would recurrently get sick as a child, leading to him needing a pacifier virtually the entire time, which in flip led to his teammates all through the years giving him the nickname “Binky.” Aside from that, Oleksy has lived a really profitable life having performed ice hockey professionally for 18 years, even profitable the Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2017, earlier than retiring in 2023. He’s nonetheless an everyday a part of the ice hockey neighborhood however is presently targeted on elevating his kids.

Sandwiched in between his marriage to Linda and his present marriage to Day by day, Hogan was married to make-up artist Jennifer McDaniel between 2010 and 2021. McDaniel was already painted as a “gold digger” by the media because of the age hole between her and Hogan, with McDaniel being both 36 on the time of their wedding ceremony, whereas Hogan was 53. Nevertheless, her work within the movie trade meant that she was greater than able to standing on her personal two ft, even earlier than assembly the WWE Corridor of Famer.

The largest hurdles that McDaniel encountered throughout her marriage to Hogan have been the varied scandals that The Hulkster discovered himself in, which led to his then-wife having to defend him to a sure extent. The 2012 lawsuit that Hogan filed towards the web site Gawker was primarily based on the truth that the positioning had leaked a intercourse tape that includes Hogan and Heather Clem, a lady who was not solely the estranged spouse of Hogan’s buddy Bubba The Love Sponge however was additionally McDaniel’s shut buddy as properly. After that, the aforementioned intercourse scandal that happened in 2015 involving Hogan’s racist rant additionally led to McDaniel having to publicly defend her husband, one thing for which she acquired heavy backlash.

Having mentioned all that, McDaniel’s marital points remained non-public in the direction of the top of the 2010s, a lot in order that Hogan really introduced that the couple had divorced on his Twitter web page in essentially the most Hulk Hogan approach possible. Hogan mentioned; “Yo Maniacs only for the file, the Fb and Instagram posts are of me and my girlfriend Sky, I’m formally divorced. Sorry, I believed everybody already knew, love my Maniacs4Life.” Regardless of her divorce being made public in such an outrageous approach, Hogan and McDaniel are reportedly nonetheless on good phrases.”

In relation to the current rant Linda Hogan went on relating to the state of her household, one constructive level that she was in a position to make was that she mentioned her son Nick was nonetheless such a superb boy. A mom’s love is value twice as a lot, which could clarify why she mentioned what she mentioned about her son, as a result of to place it frivolously, Nick Hogan has been something however an angel over the 20 years.

Nick’s love of motorsports led to him incomes a Components D license in 2006 when he was simply 16, and over the subsequent 12 months, he would obtain two rushing tickets, 4 factors on his regular driving license, and narrowly escape any vital accidents when a automobile he was driving caught on hearth. Nevertheless, Nick can be concerned in a really critical automobile crash in August 2007, which he would find yourself going to jail for in Could 2008 after being charged with reckless driving involving critical bodily damage, and would spend 5 months behind bars, serve a complete of 4 years of probation, 500 hours of neighborhood service, and be banned from driving for 3 years.

The passenger in the course of the crash, John Graziano, would maintain accidents that may require medical take care of the remainder of his life, and following a lawsuit filed by Graziano’s household, the Bollea household was ordered to cowl the prices of Graziano’s medical care. As soon as he obtained out of jail, Nick appeared to get his life again heading in the right direction, ultimately marrying pornographic actress Tana Lea, however not earlier than his authorized troubles cropped up as soon as extra in November 2023, when he was arrested for driving underneath the affect whereas his father was within the automobile, and was sentenced to serve one yr’s value of probation. 

Shifting away from the rapid Bollea household, long-time followers of World Championship Wrestling will keep in mind Horace Hogan showing on episodes of “WCW Monday Nitro” and “WCW Thunder” in the direction of the tail finish of the corporate’s existence. Except for taking a look at a model of Stone Chilly Steve Austin that you’d discover on Temu or Want, many wrestling followers haven’t got many fond recollections of Hogan’s work in WCW, regardless of having a greater than respectable profession in Japan with corporations like FMW. Nevertheless, Horace Hogan not being the very best wrestler on the planet is way from essentially the most tragic factor that has ever occurred to him.

Horace’s mother and father, Martha Alfonso and Allan Bollea, The Hulkster’s real-life brother, would find yourself separating when Horace was solely a baby, resulting in Martha getting a brand new boyfriend as Horace grew up. In 1986, Martha’s relationship would come to a brutal finish when she was murdered by her boyfriend, one thing that The Hulkster has talked about in his autobiographies, explaining how he wished to look out for Horace when he arrived in WCW given every part that had occurred to him. This may in the end be one more reason why folks did not join with him in WCW as folks merely noticed him as somebody who was solely on TV as a result of he was Hulk Hogan’s nephew.

As soon as WCW went out of enterprise, Horace’s wrestling profession started to wind down, and even after a quick spell in WWE’s developmental system in 2002, he ended up retiring from the enterprise that very same yr, opting to work for a building firm as a substitute. Horace has since gone on to have a household of his personal, having two daughters, however appears to don’t have any intentions of getting again into wrestling, regardless of his household identify having a lot weight to it.

We have already talked about what occurred to Horace Hogan’s mom, however the tragedy did not cease there as Allan Bollea, Hulk’s brother, additionally had an extremely tragic finish to his life.

In the identical yr when Martha Alfonso was brutally murdered by her boyfriend, Allan would tragically go away from a drug overdose on the age of simply 38. Allan and his brother have been extraordinarily shut, with Allan reportedly being an enormous fan of his brother’s work, which is why The Hulkster is so protecting of his late brother given the rumors surrounding him.

Very like Martha’s loss of life, Hogan lined his brother’s passing in his autobiographies, however throughout an look on Theo Von’s “This Previous Weekend” podcast, Hogan revealed that there have been rumors that his brother was a part of a biker gang and that performed a component in his loss of life. Nevertheless, that wasn’t the case and Hogan confirmed that it was not solely a drug overdose that killed his brother, however it was the truth that he was in determined want of assist and nobody got here to his rescue.

This may in the end result in Hogan really taking Horace, and his two sisters, in underneath his personal roof and serving to elevate them whereas additionally attempting to work a full-time WWE schedule. Hogan would admit that by the point he took his brother’s youngsters in, he was in critical ache because of the variety of exhibits he was working and regarded taking time away from the enterprise, however now that he had three youngsters to take care of, he felt as if that he could not depart wrestling underneath any circumstances. Hogan will not be one to talk on his brother that a lot, however you get the sense that his well-known catchphrase in all probability means extra to him than some would have initially suspected.

Not a reputation that many individuals would have anticipated to be included in one thing like this, however Mike Superior is a distant relative of Hulk Hogan by way of marriage as he’s Horace Hogan’s cousin, steadily crossing paths along with his cousin throughout their shared time in FMW collectively, in addition to WCW in 2000, which noticed Superior work together with The Hulkster as properly.

Superior is commonly thought to be one of the spectacular huge males within the historical past of wrestling, having the athleticism to match some cruiserweight wrestlers, whereas additionally having the uncooked energy to powerbomb among the heaviest performers to ever step in a hoop. Superior rose to fame in the USA by way of his time in Excessive Championship Wrestling, the place his long-standing rivalry with Masato Tanaka was heralded as one of many biggest in firm historical past. He can be the person to take the ECW World Heavyweight Championship from Taz in 1999 however would defect to WCW in 2000, whereas nonetheless underneath contract and holding the corporate’s prime title, leaving him with a sophisticated legacy amongst ECW followers.

Many ECW followers forgave him after his spectacular displaying on the One Night time Stand pay-per-view in 2005, the place his match with Tanaka not solely obtained a standing ovation but in addition acted as his retirement match as he would name time on his profession in February 2006. Sadly, one yr after he retired from wrestling, Superior took his personal life as his physique was discovered hanging in his house in Tampa, Florida, with the reasoning behind his loss of life being the collapse of his marriage that noticed him arrested and jailed for home abuse, and being instructed by his spouse that she was leaving him whereas he was incarcerated, main him to turn into very depressed and ultimately suicidal.

In relation to speaking concerning the tragic facet of the Hogan household, there may be nothing extra becoming than ending it on the WWE Corridor of Famer himself, as a result of the actual fact of the matter is that the autumn from grace that Hulk Hogan has had over time is a tragedy in itself.

We have already talked about the varied intercourse scandals that he is been concerned in, the revelation that he is a self-proclaimed racist, and the truth that even his family hates him is basically simply the tip of the iceberg in terms of Hogan’s legacy within the trendy local weather of wrestling. He has made a boatload of enemies throughout the wrestling enterprise over time for quite a lot of causes, followers of TNA nonetheless have not forgiven him (or Eric Bischoff) for almost killing the corporate within the 2010s, and even non-wrestling followers see him endorsing the present President of the USA Donald Trump and imagine that if he is like that, everybody should be, simply due to how vital he’s to wrestling.

Everybody has their very own skeletons of their closet, however Hogan’s closet has overflowed in recent times, and the response he obtained on “Uncooked” earlier this yr is the end result of how far he has fallen as an icon on this enterprise. In spite of everything, we have already listed quite a lot of explanation why so many individuals hate him, and the truth that somebody as iconic and as vital to the wrestling trade is as despised as Hogan is is likely to be essentially the most tragic a part of his whole life. Hogan and his household have lived the vast majority of their lives within the limelight, and if there may be one factor that folks know concerning the leisure trade, it is that it might probably chew folks up and spit them out.