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Hulk Hogan's Privacy Case
Hulk Hogan's net worth has just skyrocketed as he was awarded $115 million in damages on Friday, March 18, by a Florida jury in an invasion of privacy case against Gawker.com over its publication of a graphic sex tape. Hogan claimed that the tape, showing him being intimate with his best friend Bubba The Love Sponge Clem's then-wife, Heather Clem, was secretly recorded.

"We're exceptionally happy with the verdict," the 62-year-old retired wrestler's legal team previously said in a statement to PEOPLE. "We think it represents a statement as to the public's disgust with the invasion of privacy disguised as journalism. The verdict says no more."

Variety reports that the jury found that Terry Gene Bollea a.k.a Hulk Hogan, had suffered "severe

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