US ‘revenge porn’ victim awarded RM5.57bil in lawsuit against ex-boyfriend

The jury ordered Jackson to pay Doe US$200mil for past and future damages, and US$1bil in exemplary damages – an amount Doe’s attorney said in a statement is unlikely to be recovered and is more than they asked for, but serves to raise awareness of what he called a ‘tech-fueled national epidemic’. — Litigation photo created by Racool_studio - www.freepik.com

A jury recently awarded US$1.2bil (RM5.57bil) in damages to a Katy woman after her ex-boyfriend allegedly uploaded intimate pictures of her to the Internet and shared them across social media as an act of image-based sexual abuse, commonly referred to as “revenge porn”.

The woman, who is referred to as "Jane Doe" in the documents, filed a civil lawsuit in April 2022 in Harris County. The lawsuit alleged her ex-boyfriend, Marques Jamal Jackson, breached her personal and work computer accounts, impersonated her in fraudulent financial activity and shared intimate images and videos of her online after they broke up in 2020.