Lion Heart 15,041 Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Apparently, that footage is worth $100 million—and then some. A jury has awarded former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan (real name Terry Bollea) a whopping $115 million in his legal case against Gawker Media today, less than six hours after they began deliberations. Hogan sued the media company for $100 million back in 2012, accusing the website of invasion of privacy and other torts for posting 101 seconds of the tape featuring the wrestling icon and his ex Heather Clem, also the ex-wife of radio shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge. "We're exceptionally happy with the verdict. We think it represents a statement as to the public's disgust with the invasion of privacy disguised as journalism. The verdict says no more," Hogan's team tells E! News. According to CNN, the jury awarded Hogan $55 million for economic injuries and $60 million for emotional distress. The jury will reconvene next week to consider punitive damages on top of the $115 million already awarded. "In its core this case has never, ever, ever been about anything more that Gawker took a secretly recorded sex tape of my client in a private bedroom performing a private act and put it on the internet," Hogan's attorney Kenneth Turkel reportedly told the jury. http://www.eonline.com/news/750128/hulk-hogan-awarded-115-million-in-sex-tape-lawsuit-against-gawker WHAT YOU GONNA DO BROTHER??? ▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edonis 28,950 Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Was his **** wrinkly and sagging? kidding. or am I? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edonis 28,950 Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 But that's a large amount of money awarded for a sex tape (though I'm sure there's more). Crazy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sizzily 14,543 Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Good. Gawker is disgusting and hypocritical. Tears in the rain Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan 20,740 Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Good, I hate the current media trend of exposing celebrities private life. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morphine Prince 106,415 Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 I call this the Kim K. effect. Making millions off of something that was negative. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auro 1,829 Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 9 minutes ago, Edonis said: But that's a large amount of money awarded for a sex tape (though I'm sure there's more). Crazy. He apparently asked them to take it down repeatedly and they refused He/They Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edonis 28,950 Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Just now, Auro said: He apparently asked them to take it down repeatedly and they refused That's so weird lol. Maybe his daughter will have more money to release another album. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RebeldeFaith 5,555 Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Well, that's it. I will make a sex tape! Can I vanish into a cheeseburger pizza? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
weed 74,277 Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 slay me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kulture Kiari 3,433 Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Kim Who? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quark 7,098 Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 o<(0_0)>o A jury in Florida found that Gawker Media, the owner of a popular celebrity and news site, invaded the privacy of the former pro wrestler known as Hulk Hogan by posting excerpts of a sex tape involving him, and awarded him $115 million in damages. Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, sued Gawker in 2012, claiming harm when the site posted a brief video of him having sex with Heather Cole, then the wife of Tampa radio personality Bubba “the Love Sponge” Clem. The video came from a surveillance camera that Clem had installed in his bedroom. A six-person jury — four women and two men — in St. Petersburg on Friday found for the 62-year-old Hogan and awarded him $55 million in compensatory damages plus an additional $60 million for emotional distress. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/jury-awards-hulk-hogan-115-million-in-lawsuit-against-gawker-media-over-sex-tape/2016/03/18/219eaa90-ed53-11e5-b0fd-073d5930a7b7_story.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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