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Hulkamania runs wild on Gawker – Hogan awarded a gigantic $115 million over sex tape case




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Hulk Hogan aka Terry Bollea has been awarded a gigantic $115 (€102) million over the publishing of sex tape on a the Gawker website which he didn’t know was being made or indeed being published.

The tape showed Hogan having sex with a blond woman in a motel room. He was unaware of any publishing of the video.

Hogan’s lawyers told the court that Gawker did not contact him or the woman in the video before the video was published.

“This is not only his victory today, but also anyone else who’s been victimised by tabloid journalism,” Hogan lawyer David Houston said outside the courtroom.

Gawker, which aggressively covers celebrities and their lives, it maintained that Mr Hogan’s private life was newsworthy because he made it part of his public persona.

“He has consistently chosen to put his private life out there, for public consumption,” Gawker’s lawyer Michael Sullivan said during the trial.

Hogan has been awarded a huge sum of $115 as a result of the publishing. Gawker said they’ll appeal the ruling, but earlier this week said that a major settlement figure would close the down indefinitely.

Gawker allegedly made $11,000 from ad revenue from the Hogan story.

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