> Oh and with an added contempt of court: a Judge ordered them to take it down and they refused

Not just that: a Judge ordered them to take it down and they published an article bragging about their refusal.

Yup, that's an extra $15 million. Serves them right. I'll bet all the staffers who made crude jokes and laughed at a guy having consensual sex with someone in what they thought was a private, intimate act wouldn't be very happy if the same was done to them.

This whole argument that public people don't have ANY right to privacy is utterly absurd, and Gawker have been very much been brought down to earth - hard. And funnily enough, thought I cant stand the man - they've been super critical of a variety of unethical and outrageous things Trump has said and done. But Trump hasn't ever published a sex tape, and defied a court order to remove it!