![]() "There is so much this jury deserved to know and, fortunately, that the appeals court does indeed know. Legal experts say the company stands a good chance of getting the decision pared back or reversed on appeal. Gawker plans to appeal the decision, in a civil case that has drawn wide interest for testing boundaries between a celebrity's privacy rights and press liberties in the digital age. On Friday, after a two-week trial in St Petersburg, near Hogan's home, the jury found that Gawker had violated Hogan's right to privacy, and they awarded the longtime World Wrestling Entertainment star $60 million for emotional distress and $55 million for economic damages. The editor responsible for the post, AJ Daulerio, was told to pay $US100,000 ($A132,000) in punitive damages. ![]() Hogan sued the website for posting a video clip in 2012 featuring him having sex with the wife of his then-best friend, the radio shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge Clem. "I think we made history today, because I think we protected a lot of people today who may be going through what I went through," Hogan told reporters on the steps outside the courthouse. The media company's publisher and chief executive, Nick Denton, was slapped with an additional $US10 million. ![]() The six-person jury recommended Gawker pay $US15 million in punitive damages. A Florida jury has awarded punitive damages totalling $US25 million ($A33 million) in a second blow to Gawker, coming on top of the $US115 million ($A152 million) the online news outlet must pay for posting a sex tape of the former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan. ![]()
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