Hulk Hogan has been awarded a further $25m
(£17.3m) in punitive damages just days after Gawker Media was ordered to
pay $115m (£79.5m) for posting a sex tape of the celebrity wrestler
online.
A Florida jury ordered Gawker to pay Hogan an additional $15m (£10.4m) in punitive damages, while Gawker publisher Nick Denton was slapped with $10m (£6.9m) in damages.
Hogan was awarded $115m (£79.5m) last week after a Florida jury found Gawker violated his privacy by publishing a video of him having sex with his former best friend's wife in 2012.
Gawker has indicated that it will appeal against the initial verdict.
The case pitted arguments over a celebrity's right to privacy in the internet age against the freedom of the press, which is protected in the US Constitution.
Hogan's lawyers noted that he was unaware the encounter was being filmed when it took place over a decade ago and that the footage was not newsworthy.
They said Gawker did not warn Hogan, the woman in the video or her husband, DJ Bubba The Love Sponge Clem, who recorded the footage, that it was being published.
Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, testified that he still suffered from the humiliation of the video going viral.
Gawker's lawyers, meanwhile, called into question whether the sex tape was a stunt and pointed out it had already appeared on at least two other websites.
It was never conclusively determined who leaked the video to the media.
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