CUNY prof specializing in sexuality wins $30M in revenge porn suit against ex who posted her naked videos, photos online
NY Post
A CUNY public health professor who specializes in sexuality won $30 million in a revenge porn lawsuit against her ex-boyfriend — marking the largest verdict awarded in such a case in New York City, her lawyer told The Post.
Dr. Spring Chenoa Cooper, 43, was awarded the whopping figure by a Manhattan jury on Friday — six years after she filed the Big Apple’s first revenge porn case against Brooklyn comedian Ryan Broems for posting naked videos and photos of her online following their split.
“It’s been the worst six years since this all started,” Cooper told The Post on Tuesday. “It means so much that the jury could validate my experiences and see how much pain and trauma this has caused me and continues to cause me.”
Cooper, an associate professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy, sued Broems, 37, in 2018, accusing him of posting explicit videos and photos of her on Tumblr alongside her faculty, Facebook and OK Cupid profiles.
Broems pleaded guilty in a corresponding criminal case on Dec. 15, 2021 to the misdemeanor of disclosure of an intimate image and was given a no-jail sentence of 26-weeks attending a program for abusive partners, according to a transcript of the plea hearing reviewed by The Post.
He was also ordered to stay away from Cooper for five years from the time of his sentence.
