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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: 2) by gman003 on Sunday March 20 2016, @01:36AM
I'm not sure they set out to ruin him. They posted only an excerpt of the tape - specifically excluding the kinda-racist ramblings that other sites eventually posted, which got him fired. If they were specifically trying to ruin him, they would have posted the stuff that made him look bad, not the stuff that looked like any old celebrity sex tape. They seem to have only wanted to get a bunch of pageviews, which is not an evil goal in ipse.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 20 2016, @07:57AM
According to the story at Ars, HH was invited to have sex with his friend's wife by his friend. The friend set up a camera to film it, something which HH claims he was not aware of.
I don't know what kind of "friend" tries to convince you to infidelity with his SO, nor do I know what kind of "friend" would tape such an encounter.
But: taping someone who is having sex without his/her knowledge, and then later putting the film online... that's revenge porn territory.
If we take this story as presented, then Gawker is guilty of spreading revenge porn. For clicks.
How much more evil can you get on the internet?