In March, a Pinellas County jury sided with Hogan and awarded him $115m in compensatory damages plus an added $25m in punitive damages. During the Gawker trial, Hogan mournfully described how Clem betrayed his trust. Hogan said he didn’t know he was being taped by Bubba The Love Sponge Clem, a local Tampa DJ. Hogan first sued Gawker after it posted a 2007 video of him having sex with Heather Clem, his then best friend’s wife. “Hulk Hogan is a litigious celebrity abusing the court system to control his public image and media coverage … It’s time for Hulk Hogan to take responsibility for his own words, because the only person who got Hulk Hogan fired from the WWE is Hulk Hogan.” “This is getting ridiculous,” Gawker wrote in a statement. The court filing was the latest chapter in a long legal saga for Hogan, Gawker and others. “Mr Bollea said from the beginning that he would seek to hold all persons and entities fully responsible for their wrongful actions,” his spokeswoman, Elizabeth Traub, wrote in a statement. The suit in Pinellas County court also accuses a talent agent, two disc jockeys, a radio company and a lawyer of conspiring to send media outlets the sex tape and causing Hogan emotional distress and economic harm.