Big Head NYC has learned that Benjamin Nicholas, the infamous male escort who allegedly had some sort of relationship with Sen. Trent Lott, is pretty close to Nick Denton, owner of the Gawker Media empire. In fact, Nicholas said in an e-mail to our brother site that Denton was working hard behind the scenes to get him to release his allegations against Lott within one of the Gawker blogs, possibly Wonkette.

“I was contacted by Gawker this morning.” Nicholas wrote on Monday. “Denton is a friend of mine.”

When asked via instant message by a Big Head NYC staffer about the connection to Nicholas, Denton quickly removed said staffer from his buddy list.

Interestingly, Denton’s Wonkette editors have said they won’t link to the Nicholas / Lott story.

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