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Hulk Hogan has been awarded damages of $115 million in a privacy suit against Gawker, which posted a sex tape featuring Hogan (real name: Terry G. Bollea) online:
The retired wrestler Hulk Hogan was awarded $115 million in damages on Friday by a Florida jury in an invasion of privacy case against Gawker.com over its publication of a sex tape — an astounding figure that tops the $100 million he had asked for, that will probably grow before the trial concludes, and that could send a cautionary signal to online publishers despite the likelihood of an appeal by Gawker.
The wrestler, known in court by his legal name, Terry G. Bollea, sobbed as the verdict was announced in late afternoon, according to people in the courtroom. The jury had considered the case for about six hours.
Mr. Bollea's team said the verdict represented "a statement as to the public's disgust with the invasion of privacy disguised as journalism," adding: "The verdict says, 'No more.' "
NYT also has this guide to the case.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 19 2016, @08:10PM
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/26/hulk-hogan-wrestling-racism-gawker [theguardian.com]
It may be he retired from wrestling (a 60 year old is probably not going to be doing the stuntwork he was doing in the ring). However, he still worked for them and was fired specifically because of that tape. Like most businesses out there he became a liability because of bad publicity they dropped him.
Them deliberately leaving the story up, and the twitter admission of defying a judges order, as well as the five year old porn being OK probably did not help their case much.