Dunham’s book proposal, which it largely did. He demanded that the site take down a posting of Ms. In their haste to defend Dunham, they forgot to get their story straight and used information from the original book draft they acquired that contradicts everything that Lena said. After a decade of publishing scoops that have made him an outlaw to those looking to protect secrets, Denton opens up about battles with Fox News, Lena Dunham, Hulk Hogan and more. Harder has tangled with Gawker, in 2012 on behalf of Lena Dunham. One particularly hilarious backfire came from Gawker. Good news for the entirety of the internet, which it turns out is an. This is hardball: Harder represented himself to Gawker’s attorney as “litigation counsel for author and actress Lena Dunham Lena Dunham has retained an attorney to demand that Gawker remove 12 quotes from her book propsal from our site,” an insider tells me. Gawker Accidentally Outs Lena's Actual Rapist as a Democrat. Lena Dunham Gets New Show Picked Up Hired to Write Pilot, Is Slowly Taking Over HBO. But now Dunham’s attorney is demanding that Gawker take down a mere 12 one-sentence quotes lifted from the 66-page proposal. (“On the recommendation of Gawker’s legal department, the site’s leadership elected to take down the proposal.”) OK, I can understand that. Gawker told me Charles Harder of Wolf, Rifkin, Shapiro, Schulman & Rabkin demanded that Gawker take down Dunham’s proposal for Not That Kind Of Girl. Gawker at the start of the weekend scored and posted the HBO Girls sitcom creator’s 66-page book proposal which she sold in October for $3.5M to Random House. I went to read it on the site only to see it had disappeared off it. But she sure is taking seriously one website’s attempt to make any of it public. Lena Dunham is writing a self-described funny book of advice and anecdotes on everything from sex to eating to traveling to work.