--- description: Gawker said it will appeal the verdict reached in favor of professional wrestler Hulk Hogan in the lawsuit he brought against the company title: Gawker to Appeal Verdict Awarding Hulk Hogan $115 Million image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdcc67c61de0f6900/69888bbaa988ca19396b7105/gettyimages-514540128.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Gawker to Appeal Verdict Awarding Hulk Hogan $115 Million  by [Katie Reilly](/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 19, 2016 2:48 PM CUT  Terry Bollea, aka Hulk Hogan, testifies in court during his trial against Gawker Media at the Pinellas County Courthouse on March 8, 2016 in St Petersburg, Florida. Terry Bollea, aka Hulk Hogan, testifies in court during his trial against Gawker Media at the Pinellas County Courthouse on March 8, 2016 in St Petersburg, Florida.John Pendygraft—Pool/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 19, 2016 2:48 PM CUT Gawker said it will [appeal the verdict reached in favor of Hulk Hogan](http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2016/03/8594339/jury-awards-hulk-hogan-115-million-gawker-looks-appeal "undefined") in the [lawsuit he brought](http://time.com/4249492/hulk-hogan-gawker-trial-sex-tape/ "undefined") against the media company over its publication of a sex tape featuring the professional wrestler. The jury awarded Hogan $115 in compensatory damages in addition to punitive damages on Friday. Hogan had asked for $100 million, arguing his privacy was violated when Gawker published an excerpt from a video of him having sex with the wife of his then-best friend Bubba the Love Sponge Clem, the [New York _Times_ reported](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/business/media/gawker-hulk-hogan-verdict.html "undefined"). Following the verdict, Gawker said it had anticipated it would lose the trial and will appeal the decision. “Given key evidence and the most important witness were both improperly withheld from this jury, we all knew the appeals court will need to resolve the case,” Gawker CEO Nick Denton said in a statement, [_Capital New York_ reported](http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2016/03/8594339/jury-awards-hulk-hogan-115-million-gawker-looks-appeal "undefined"). “I want to thank our lawyers for their outstanding work and am confident that we would have prevailed at trial if we had been allowed to present the full case to the jury. That’s why we feel very positive about the appeal that we have already begun preparing, as we expect to win this case ultimately.” Hogan’s lawyers said the verdict was “a statement as to the public’s disgust with the invasion of privacy disguised as journalism,” the _New York Times reported_. “The verdict says, ‘No more.’” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4265214/gawker-appeal-verdict-hulk-hogan-trial/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4265214/gawker-appeal-verdict-hulk-hogan-trial/"},"headline":"Gawker to Appeal Verdict Awarding Hulk Hogan $115 Million","datePublished":"2016-03-19T14:48:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:03:02.656Z","description":"The media company said it expects to ultimately win the case","url":"https://time.com/4265214/gawker-appeal-verdict-hulk-hogan-trial/","keywords":["celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdcc67c61de0f6900/69888bbaa988ca19396b7105/gettyimages-514540128.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdcc67c61de0f6900/69888bbaa988ca19396b7105/gettyimages-514540128.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"GettyImages-514540128","caption":"Terry Bollea, aka Hulk Hogan, testifies in court during his trial against Gawker Media at the Pinellas County Courthouse on March 8, 2016 in St Petersburg, Florida.","creditText":"John Pendygraft—Pool/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4265214/gawker-appeal-verdict-hulk-hogan-trial/","name":"Gawker to Appeal Verdict Awarding Hulk Hogan $115 Million"}}]}] ```