Landmark Judgment: Court Orders Record-Breaking $1.2 Billion Compensation for Revenge Porn Victim

A Texas woman, known as Jane Doe or D.L., has been awarded a $1.2 billion settlement by a Houston-area jury after her ex-boyfriend shared intimate photos of her online without her consent. The lawsuit claimed that the ex-boyfriend disseminated explicit images of the woman across the internet, created a website to house the images, and sent them to her friends, family, and co-workers. The jury ordered the ex-boyfriend to pay $200 million for past and future mental anguish and $1 billion in exemplary damages. This landmark settlement aims to deter others from engaging in revenge porn and highlights the issue of image-based sexual abuse.