After concluding that the woman was the victim of revenge porn, a Texas jury awarded her $1.2 billion (£944 million).
In 2022, the woman, whose name was only given in court documents by the initials DL, accused her ex-boyfriend of harassing her.
According to the lawsuit, he published private images of her online in an effort to "publicly shame" her following a breakup.
The payout was hailed by her attorneys as a victory for "image-based sexual abuse" victims.
The compensatory award restores DL's good name, although a judgment in this case is unlikely to be recovered, according to Bradford Gilde, the lead trial attorney in a statement.
The lawyers had initially requested $100 million in damages from the jurors.
"We hope the staggering amount of this verdict sends a message of deterrence and prevents others from engaging in this despicable activity," Mr. Gilde continued.
The woman and her previous boyfriend allegedly started dating in 2016 according to court documents.
Throughout their connection, the woman had shown the defendant private images of herself. He is accused of posting the images without her permission on adult websites and social media after their relationship ended in 2021.
He allegedly used a Dropbox folder that was open to the public to send links to the images to her friends and relatives.
Additionally, he was charged with having access to her email, social media, and phone, as well as the camera system at her mother's house, which he allegedly used to spy on her.
You will spend the rest of your life trying and failing to remove yourself off the internet," the defendant allegedly wrote in a message to the woman. Everyone you come in contact with will hear the tale and start looking. Grats hunting.
According to the woman's attorneys, her ex-boyfriend shared the images "to inflict a combination of psychological abuse, domestic violence, and sexual abuse".
Despite having a lawyer to represent him, he failed to appear in court, according to US media sources.
He was ordered to pay the woman $1 billion in exemplary damages in addition to $200 million for past and future mental suffering.
In the past, high settlements in US revenge porn cases have been made. A California lady was given $6.8 million in 2018 after her ex-partner posted intimate pictures of her on porn sites.
After little help from the local authorities, DL informed a Texas radio that she turned to a civil lawyer. About 10 million Americans claimed to have fallen victim to non-consensual or revenge porn in 2016. According to a survey conducted at the time by the Data & Society Research Institute, many of them are women between the ages of 18 and 29.
All US states have anti-revenge porn statutes in effect, with the exception of Massachusetts and South Carolina.
Sources: BBC.