Stephen Bear who claimed to be a millionaire is ordered to pay £207k to Georgia Harrison over revenge porn video
DISGRACED Stephen Bear has been ordered to pay his ex Georgia Harrison more than £200,000 in damages for "deeply violating" her privacy.
The reality star, 33, was jailed for 21 months in March after sharing a secret sex tape on OnlyFans.
Bear has now been told to pay Georgia £207,000 in damages for the leak on a "grand scale" after she took him to the High Court.
The payout is one of the highest-ever ordered in a breach of privacy case due to the "gross act of violation".
It is just £900 less than the amount Georgia was seeking after she successfully sued him for civil damages.
Bear, who offered no evidence at the confiscation hearing, has also been slapped with an injunction preventing him from using the footage, which made him £2,000, again.
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Master Victoria McCloud said Bear had "gaslighted" Georgia, 28, by trying to convince her she was responsible for sharing the clip.
The judge also slammed the shamed star for using the leak as a springboard for his own porn career before he was jailed.
She added: "Pornography is generally actually something done consensually. It was consensual sex but it certainly wasn’t consensual filming, and it was deeply violating.”
Georgia, who bravely waived her right to anonymity, said the leak was her "worst nightmare” and left her feeling “violated and used”.
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She said her life had "changed forever" and told how she has lost her "sense of self-respect and personal dignity”.
Georgia also revealed she felt “completely and utterly exploited, like he had hung me up naked on a wall for millions of people to see and there was nothing I could do about it”.
The ex-Towie star's lawyer Gervase de Wilde told the court Bear has been "completely unrepentant" and has failed to apologise to Georgia.
The barrister also told how he has offered "no assurances" about the future of the video and has remained "completely brazen, even in the face of his conviction".
Mr de Wilde added: "This case is the most serious single infringement of privacy rights that has ever come before this court by way of a damages claim.
"The video had enormous circulation, global circulation.”
The court was told a hacker hired by Georgia's family found the video had been shared too widely to ever be successfully wiped.
Mr de Wilde also said Bear appears to have spent the last few days trying to flog property with the promise of a "quick sale" as he focused more "on the consequences of this claim than actually engaging with the substance.”
The Ex-on-the-Beach star claims to have made a fortune from various businesses and OnlyFans videos with his model fiancée Jessica Smith.
In 2021, he even claimed he made "$1million" (£720,000) in just 12 hours after posting an explicit clip online.
But after he was jailed, it emerged his lifestyle was worlds away from the flashy image he portrayed on Instagram.
Bear owns a modest, three-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Loughton, Essex.
His eight companies have all fallen apart around him - with none making a profit.
Even the Rolls Royce the disgraced star used to show up in court each day was rented and his Rolex watches were fakes.
Georgia had begged Bear not to share the footage after he showed it to her as it would "upset her greatly".
She was later airdropped the 20 minute clip and discovered it was being offered for pay-per-view on OnlyFans.
Bear had advertised the clip: “Can’t wait to see me f**k in the garden.”
He was previously found guilty of voyeurism and two counts of disclosing private, sexual photographs and films.
Judge Christopher Morgan said a jail term was the “only appropriate” punishment for Bear’s sick crimes.
Brave Georgia waved her anonymity to speak out against her reality star ex as she accused him of so-called "revenge porn".
She said she nearly died fighting him for two-and-a-half years and is now planning to sue Bear for destroying her career.
The star explained: “When it first happened, the physical effects on me were just horrific.
"I had acne come up all over my face. I ended up getting a cyst infection — the cyst eventually burst — and I was in hospital from stress.
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“They said my kidneys, my pelvis, and multiple organs were infected, and I was going into septic shock.”
As well as a jail sentence, Bear was also placed on the Sex Offenders Register for ten years and was slapped with a five-year restraining order banning him from contacting Georgia.
