The Stakes in Hulk Hogan’s Gawker Lawsuit
On Monday afternoon, a Florida jury added twenty-five million dollars in punitive damages to the hundred and fifteen million dollars it had awarded Hulk Hogan, on Friday, in his invasion-of-privacy case against Gawker Media. Hogan sued Gawker for posting portions of a sex tape it received from an anonymous sender. It’s a shocking amount, not least because it’s forty million dollars more than Hogan (whose real name is Terry Bollea) had demanded.
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