Hulk Hogan had a big medical scare this week — after doctors thought they may have found an abnormality with the wrestler’s heart.

Hogan was undergoing tests for back surgery, when doctors discovered a problem with his EKG.

Sources close to Hulk tell us the back doctor sent Hulk to a specialist at a cardiovascular medical center in Florida for further testing.

But this story has a happy ending, doctors ran more extensive tests and were able to determine that Hulk’s ticker is working just fine … though we’re told Hulk was “very worried” during the process.

And with his heart all hunky-dory, Hulk is scheduled to undergo back surgery soon.

Get well soon Terry!!

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The harsh world of legalities must be all too familiar for Hulk Hogan, but this time the semi-retired pro-wrestler has decided to sue the professionals whose job it was to stand up for him.

Hogan filed a lawsuit in the Pinellas County on Monday against two attorneys, Morris “Sandy” Weinberg Jr. and Lee Fugate, of the firm Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, with claims that the men (who defended him and son Nick Bollea following Nick’s 2007 car crash) for cheating him out of over $1.5 million.

According to the suit, Hulk’s automotive insurance company Progressive was obligated to cover all necessary legal costs, however the lawyers named allegedly failed to notify him of this and continued to bill at excessively high rates. Hulk also claimed that Progressive attempted numerous times to communicate with him over the incident, but the Zuckerman Spaeder legal team did not make him aware of their letters. By the time he understood his entitlements, he claims the relationship with the insurers had been “terminated.”

“It is common knowledge throughout the legal profession experienced in such matters, especially in the area of insurance defense litigation and personal injury law, that automobile insurance policies include the aforementioned duty to defend the insured, as well as any permissive user, should a civil suit arise or the possibility of a civil claim exist,” the lawsuit stated. “Defendants made no effort to advise of this important fact. Defendants were further aware, or should have been, that Bollea had no experience in the area of insurance.”

“The charges made by Terry Bollea are simply baseless. The Bollea’s came to Zuckerman Spaeder under very difficult circumstances. Both Terry Bollea and his son faced the threat of criminal prosecution and civil litigation. Zuckerman Spaeder, working with a co-counsel, achieved a very favorable result in the criminal case,” a rep from the firm told Tarts in a statement. “We absolutely dispute and will contest the claims made against us.”

But on the note of Nick Bollea’s tragic accident, the now 24-year-old John Graziano, who was in the passenger seat of Bollea’s vehicle at the time, was finally released from the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital last Wednesday, over two years after the incident. Graziano suffered severe brain damage, reportedly leaving him in a vegetative state.

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The final chapter in the dramatic divorce between Terry Bollea and his estranged wife, Linda, played out in a Pinellas County courtroom Tuesday.

Attorneys for Terry and Linda Bollea announced that the two sides have reached a settlement in their divorce case.

No terms of the agreement were given.

According to sources close to the case, the couple reached an agreement before the hearing.

Terry Bollea, also known as famed wrestler Hulk Hogan, and Linda Bollea have been going through contentious divorce proceedings for almost the past two years.

During that time, the Hogans have argued over alimony payments, allowances, a Las Vegas condo and Linda’s alleged spending habits.

But the proceedings were civil on Tuesday, as all parties greeted each other with handshakes and Linda and Terry said hellos with kisses on the cheek.

Following the proceedings, Linda released this statement:

“My husband took the big step of stopping this escalating war by making the decision to put this behind us. I am grateful to him for realizing that our family can be happier and stronger by working together. He and I both love our family dearly and look forward to working together to make it stronger than it has ever been. My family means the world to me.”

The famous family has been in the spotlight more than ever since Linda and Terry’s son, Nick Bollea, crashed his car, seriously injuring John Graziano in August 2007.

The Hogans still face a civil lawsuit filed by the Graziano family.

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Watching the Hogan family is like having a Jerry Springer episode every week. I don’t need one everyday, but once a week is fantastic. As always, I predicate every Hogan story with the hope they all end up bankrupt because they had to pay John Graziano every penny they have.

In this week’s edition, Linda fought back against the claims made by her hairstylist last week that Linda uses most of her alimony for drugs. The interesting thing is the fighting back didn’t say anything about Linda and her alleged drug use. Nope. It all was about the fact that Hulk possibly paid off the hairstylist for her testimony. How did she get paid? You are going to love this. Hulk paid the hairstylist $3500 with a check made out to the hair stylist’s sister. The check was alleged to be a payoff AND hair extensions for Hulk’s girlfriend AND Hulk. He needs to get his money back because it looks awful.

Hulk’s people denied it was a payoff and said it was only for the hair extensions. Hulk gets hair extensions? Have you ever seen worse extensions in your life?

Brooke weighed in as well. On Tuesday she was on Bubba The Love Sponge and actually didn’t talk about pole dancing for daddy or her new moves they worked on, but rather how horrible her mother is.

“We were only close (before) because I didn’t know any different … I think this person she is was always there. It’s a psychological thing, it comes down to she didn’t have a settled home life growing up … deep down inside she’s still not happy,” Brooke said before breaking down in tears. “She has bitten the hand that fed her. It hurts so bad because she doesn’t know me. She doesn’t know how fun I am, my favorite color, my best friends or what my house looks like. She doesn’t know any of that.”

Umm. Brooke. Did you get a new favorite color and best friend in the last six months? Were you not fun your whole life until six months ago? This whole family is beyond any kind of rationality. The only thing that sucks about all this is that I fear the couple is going to burn through every penny they have on legal fees related to their divorce and John Graziano isn’t going to have anything left for him. That is the real shame in all of this.

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Brooke Hogan celebrated her 21st birthday at Pure Nightclub in Vegas. Basically, the promoters at Pure just couldn’t seem to get Carrot Top to come in and do a celebrity appearance so Brooke Hogan came in. She’s was on call for D-List Monday nights, thank god she answered her phone. Hulkamania was there. As were his daughters boobs, which were hanging out and loitering all over the joint. Just talking about it makes me totally uncomfortable. Remember the time Hulk rubbed lotion on Brooke’s thys? Yuck! More incest drive photos below.

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The courts have denied a request made by Linda Hogan’s boyfriend, who was seeking a restraining order against Linda’s estranged husband, Hulk Hogan, Access Hollywood has learned.

In court papers obtained by Access, Charley Hill, 20, claims Hulk (whose real name is Terry Bollea) has been following and threatening him.

However, the court denied Hill’s request.

Following the court’s ruling, David Houston, an attorney for Hulk, released the following statement to Access:

“This is just another blatant attempt by Linda Hogan to try to defame Hulk Hogan’s character. We commend the judge on seeing through this ridiculous stunt and denying these baseless claims.”

Linda, 49, filed for divorce from Hulk, 55, in November 2007 after 24 years of marriage.

Back in August, Hulk sat down with Access Hollywood’s Maria Menounos to open up on his split from his wife.

“As crazy as that sounds to say, I wish I was still with my wife,” Hulk told Maria.

“There have been rumors that maybe this divorce was a ploy to protect your assets,” Maria said.

“If this is a ploy, her being intimate with a 19-year-old kid is pretty good acting,” Hulk added. “For me to be able to handle… my 50-year-old wife sleeping in a bed with a 19-year-old boyfriend and using my gym, and driving my cars, and living in my house. I guess we’ve got a pretty good act going on ’cause that’s a lot to take on.”

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I understand that if you feel that you are somewhat important that you may need a publicist. Maybe you just want one because then you can feel like you are sitting at the cool lunch table. Whatever it is, I do recognize there are some people that need publicists. However, when Linda Hogan’s 19 year old needs a publicist then you know that all of us should have one to. I think that if you require the services of a publicist, hopefully you should at least be able to pay for that person yourself. Guess that is not how things work for Linda though.This is what Linda’s new publicist had to say about Linda’s boy toy having a new publicist. “Charlie is now in the public eye and he needs a rep just like every other public person, nothing wrong with that.”

In the public eye? I will remember she said that when people start talking smack about him and he sues someone saying he isn’t in the public eye. How long will he be in the public eye? If she dumps him tomorrow will anyone remember his name? Hell, I don’t remember his name or even what he looks like. All I know is that since Hulk took one of Brooke’s friends that Linda decided she would give a little payback and find some young thing of her own. Nothing wrong with that. Do what you have to do. I’m not sure Linda even needs a publicist, so what on earth made her think he does to? Could she not afford to buy him another car or something so she said here’s a publicist instead. Is that what every celebrity is getting their significant others for the holidays?

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While most Americans spent Tuesday night either smiling or sobbing over Obama’s election as the 44th president of the United States, Hulk Hogan was taking his 18-year-old son Nick (and one of his male pals) out and about in Las Vegas.

Nick Hogan recently spent 166 days behind bars after pleading no contest to charges of reckless driving in an accident that left his close friend, John Graziano, critically injured. But clearly young Hogan is making up for lost time. Pop Tarts spies spotted the reality TV stars checking into Sin City’s Hard Rock Hotel & Casino (they’re booked until Friday) and are poised to make an appearance at SEMA, an automotive trade show.

But according to an insider, the “Hogan Knows Best” father has gone to extra lengths to make sure his son stays out of trouble by having staff book Nick a standard room right beside his VIP executive suite. There is even a mysterious man (believed to be a parole officer) lurking around them at all times.

“Hulk made a big point of saying that this was a relaxing getaway and that Nick will be taking it easy and won’t be partying,” said our source. (Well, we certainly hope by now that Nick has learned the lesson that being underage and alcohol isn’t a good combination.)

But Nick isn’t allowing his post-pokey profile to shield him away from the limelight as he reportedly pranced around the hotel happily posing for pictures, signing autographs for fans and flirting with the hot young ladies that came his way. Even though daddy was all-smiles, it sounds as though the year of family drama is taking its toll.

“I’m pretty vulnerable right now, I’ve been beat up so bad of late I would probably be pretty easy to take down,” the former WWE champ told Tarts, but in next breath hinted that if he pulled himself together and got in shape he might very well come out of-retirement.

As for his son’s negligent car crash that has left “best friend” Garrison in a vegetative state — it seems as though Hulk believes it really was no “accident”.

“There are no accidents, God has a plan that unfolds just as he wants it,” Hulk said.

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