Andrew Shirvell, a former state assistant attorney general in Michigan, will have to pay $4.5 million in damages to a student whom he slandered and stalked for being gay.

Shirvell created a blog about Chris Armstrong, the University of Michigan’s first openly gay student body president, calling him “Satan’s representative on the student assembly” and a “privileged pervert.” He also showed up at Armstrong’s house several times.

Armstong sued him in 2011 and after a year of fighting in court and a weeklong trial, has won on all counts. He was awarded $4.5 million in damages.

Whoosh. What a case.