A Texas woman was awarded a $1.2 billion settlement after a Houston-area jury ruled she was the victim of revenge porn.

The woman, who went by her initials D.L. in court documents, filed a harassment lawsuit in April 2022 in Harris County against her former boyfriend Marques Jamal Jackson. According to the suit, Jackson posted intimate images of his ex-girlfriend, obtained while they were dating, onto social media platforms and adult websites “with the intent to embarrass, harass, torment, humiliate, and publicly shame” her.

The lawsuit also accuses Jackson of tapping into the plaintiff’s mother’s home security system to spy on D.L. after the two broke up, as well as sending links to her friends and family to sites where intimate images of her had been uploaded.

[Well, good, but the victim will collect little if any of that amount. She got a fortune in vindication, however. One quibble with the CBS report: this was not a “settlement,” but a jury award. There may be a settlement proposal coming now, I’d bet. — Ed]