Gawker’s owner broke his silence Tuesday after a jury awarded $140 million to Hulk Hogan in a lawsuit that was filed after the gossip website posted a sex tape that included the wrestler and a former friend’s now-ex-wife.

“The decision by a Florida jury to grant $140 million in damages for a story on Gawker.com about a Hulk Hogan sex tape was extraordinary. The number is far larger than even the plaintiff himself had asked for in relief. It’s a huge pay-day for an indiscretion that would have been quickly forgotten, one among many in the professional wrestler’s personal life,” Gawker’s Nick Denton said in a blog post Tuesday.