Hulk Hogan wins $25 million more from Gawker in sex-tape lawsuit

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Hulk Hogan jury hit Gawker with another body slam Monday, awarding the former pro wrestler $25.1 million on top of the $♈115 million it already gave him over the publicat🀅ion of his sex tape.

Gawker owner Nick Denton must personally pony up $10 million of the additional punitive damages, while the gossip site is on the hඣook for $15 million and its former editor A.J. Daulerio, who posted the video, was held liable for $100,000.

Hogan, 62, whose real nam𓂃e is Terry✅ Bollea, praised the award.

“I feel great. I’m really happy about everything thaꩵt’s happened, and I think we made history today because I think we’ve protected a lot of people from maybe going through what I went through,’’ he said.

The four-woman, two-man jury took about four hours to answer Hogan’s call to deliver a second blow to Gawker for posting the video of him having sex with the wife of his then-best friend, the shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge Clem, who secretly recorded the𓃲 tryst.

The same panel on Friday had awarded Hogan $65 million for emotional distress and $50 mill🙈ion for the damage to his career and earnings.

Addr💟essing jurors before deliberations Monday, the WWE champ’s lawyer, Kenneth Turkel, urged them consider the statement their verdict would make.

“You send a message. You make a statement. And that st꧅atement is, ‘We’re going to draw a line,𝓡’ ” he told them.

“Literally, everything was done with complete reckless disregard an🌌d intent to harm this man.”

Meanwhile, Gawker’s lawyer, Michael Berry, as♌ked them to spare his clients any more fi🧔nancial pain, insisting, “$115 million is punishment enough.”

Meanwhi✨le Gawker’s attorney, Michael Berry, pleaded📖 with the jury, saying “$115 million is punishment enough.

Pinellas County Judge Pamela Campbell had told the jury that the second award couldn’t be “unreaso🦹nably large” co♛mpared with their first and should not “financially destroy or bankrupt any of the defendants.”

The jurors had been informed that Denton’s worth is $121 million and Gawker’s $83 million and that Daulerio has no assets and is $26,🧸000 in debt.

Denton’s net worth was calculated based on his interest in Gawker Media🌌 Group, Gawker’s parent company. Gawker Media Group is worth $276 million.

The judge instructed the jurors to consider “whether wrongful conduct was motivated by unreasonable financial gain,’’ whether𓄧 there was a “high likelihood of injury actually known by” the defendants and “whether the harm wa🔯s intentional malice.’’

Before leaving to deliberate, one female juror asked the judge, regarding the penni🌸less Daulerio, whether the jury could dole out punishment in the form 🐷of community service.

The answer was no.

Denton was grim as he addrꦿessed reporters af🅷terward.

“We look f🐽orward to going to the appeals cour𒆙t,” he said.

ꦺAnother Hogan lawyer, David Houston,🐽 was more than pleased.

“What can we say? [The jurors] did eveཧrything we asked. They vindicated Mr. Bollea,’’ he said.

Hogan sued Gawker in 2012 for publishing footage that showed him in a canopy-bed romp with Heather Cole, then-wife of Bubba the Love 🌳Sponge Clem.

The jury had agr♏eed that Gawker invaded Hogan’s pꦕrivacy.

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Additional reporting by Kate Sheehy in New York