Hulk Hogan jurors capital to accord him even added than $140 million

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The six Florida jurors who sided with Hulk Hogan in his accusation adjoin
Gawker Media over the online advertisement of a sex band say they accept the ex-pro wrestler was emotionally afflicted over the incident.

In an ABC News account that aired Thursday morning, the jurors said that admitting Hogan's celebrity status, he's still a animal being. They awarded him $140 million.

"If we were all in the aforementioned circumstance, how would we feel about it?" juror Paula Eastman said. "And, emotionally, we would accept all been appealing devastated."

Salina Stevens said she looked for signs of anguish from Gawker Media architect Nick Denton but didn't see any.

Denton “has just got a altered moral courage than, I think, the archetypal person,” added juror Shelby Adkins, 23 in an account the jurors gave to the New York Post.

The jurors capital to accolade Hogan even added money, they said, but the adjudicator warned them not to "bankrupt" Denton and Gawker, according to the Post interview.

Gawker Media's Nick Denton, left, and A.J. Daulerio, right, listens to affidavit during Hulk Hogan's accusation balloon adjoin Gawker Wednesday, March 9, 2016, in St. Petersburg, Fla. The jurors aswell awful the airs of Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio, who fabricated several acerb statements on the stand. The board voted for castigating amercement of $100,000 for Daulerio, who claims to accept no cogent assets and $27,000 in apprentice accommodation debt.

Former Gawker Media editor-in-chief A.J. Daulerio sits in the attorneys Wednesday, March 16, 2016, in St. Petersburg, Fla.

“We apparently would accept hit A.J. harder, but we just didn’t anticipate you could get claret out of a rock," juror Robin Young told the New York Post.

It was bright that Denton and Daulerio's attitudes angered the jurors.

“There was something about the akin of arrogance,” Young told the Post about Denton. “He absolutely brand himself."

“We could affectionate of feel that he anticipation we were Florida Hulk Hogan fans," Young told the Post. "That we’ve got Hulk Hogan-mania T-shirts in our closet and this affectionate of stuff. And if you go about the room, you’ll acquisition a lot of of us . . . appear from added locations of the country and added locations of the world, and so that affectionate of bookish New York snobism array of came across.”

ST PETERSBURG, FL - Terry Bollea, aka Hulk Hogan, testifies in cloister during his balloon adjoin Gawker Media at the Pinellas County Courthouse on March 8, 2016 in St Petersburg, Florida

Hogan sued Gawker for aggression of aloofness afterwards it appear the video in which he has sex with his best friend's wife. Hogan said he didn't apperceive he was getting recorded. Gawker said the footage was contemporary advice about a accessible figure, and adequate by the First Amendment.

Denton, who says he'll address the verdict, told ABC he still believes the sex band was newsworthy. He aswell said he does not anticipate Hogan is aboveboard if he says he did not apperceive he was getting recorded.