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| Hulk Hogan awarded $115m in Gawker sex tape case | |
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| A Florida jury has awarded Hulk Hogan $115m (£79m) after the gossip news website Gawker published a sex tape of the retired professional wrestler. | |
| Mr Hogan's legal team argued the New York-based website violated his privacy and the video was not newsworthy. | |
| The case, which pitted freedom of the press against a celebrity's right to privacy, has been closely watched. | |
| The video was posted in 2012 after Mr Hogan was secretly recorded having sex with his friend's wife. | |
| Lawyers for Gawker argued that although jurors might find the website's action distasteful, the concept of freedom of the press was more important to uphold. | |
| Mr Hogan's lawyers said Gawker did not contact him or the woman in the video before the video was published. | |
| Mr Hogan, whose given name is Terry Bollea, said the release of the sex tape hurt his career. | |
| He was one of the most popular professional wrestlers of the 1980s and 1990s and later starred in his own reality television show with his family. | |
| In recent years, Mr Hogan's personal problems have conflicted with his one-time child-friendly persona. | |
| His longtime employer World Wrestling Entertainment cut ties with Mr Hogan in July after he was recorded using racial slurs. |