Amber Heard still has love for her ex-husband, Johnny Depp. Speaking to TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie in an interview for NBC News, the Aquaman actress said, “Absolutely. I love him.
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Amber Heard is not going down without a fight.
As Perezcious readers know, the Aquaman star was found liable for defamation after claiming to be a victim of domestic abuse in her 2018 Washington Post op-ed. She was ordered to pay her ex-husband Johnny Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages, though Judge Penney Azcarate quickly reduced the punitive damages to the maximum allowed in Virginia, $350,000.
While Amber was awarded $2 million in damages for claims made by Depp’s former attorney, the verdict was still a definitive loss for her. And now her lawyer is speaking out on her plans for the future and what she thinks influenced the jury’s decision.
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In an interview with Savannah Guthrie on Today Thursday morning, attorney Elaine Bredehoft declared that her client “absolutely” plans to appeal the verdict, sharing about the actress:
She went on to explain how Amber’s legal team was restricted from discussing the 2020 UK libel case that Johnny lost, explaining:
Most significantly, she seems to believe that the core root of the problem was the fact that her client was “demonized” throughout the trial — by Depp’s lawyers and those on social media. The lawyer claimed:
The case quickly became a viral sensation with many tuning in live to watch the trial go down. She slammed the approval of cameras in the courtroom, calling it “a zoo.” But that wasn’t the only thing that she thinks might have confused the jurors.
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Not only were people watching the trial closely, but it was also plastered on almost every social media platform, making it hard for anyone
Amber Heard still has love for her ex-husband, Johnny Depp. Speaking to TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie in an interview for NBC News, the Aquaman actress said, “Absolutely. I love him.
legal battle between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard has come to an end, at least until Heard files her promised appeal. However, the results of the recent defamation case are still a major topic of conversation. Depp has publicly stated his happiness with the result and Heard has stated her disappointment.
for defamation.“To my dying day, I will stand by every word in my testimony,” Heard, 46, told the “Today” show in an interview teaser that aired early Tuesday.Still, the actress admitted that the wild testimony that led to her brutal courtroom loss also painted her and her superstar ex in the worst possible light.“I would not blame the average person for looking at this and how it’s been covered and not think that it is Hollywood brats at their worst,” she conceded to Savannah Guthrie.Her comments came on the second day of footage from a “wide-ranging sitdown” to air in full Friday at 8 p.m. ET.On Monday, clips showed her also saying that she was not surprised that the Virginia jury ruled against her — because they fell for the “fantstic actor.”“How could they not come to that conclusion? They had sat in those seats and heard over three weeks of nonstop relentless testimony from paid employees and — towards the end of the trial — randos,” Heard told Savannah Guthrie with a nervous chuckle.“I don’t blame them.
So much for staying out of the spotlight!
K.J. Yossman Amber Heard has given her first sit-down interview following the verdict in her latest legal battle with ex-husband Johnny Depp.Last month a jury in Virginia ruled she had defamed Depp in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed published under her byline. In the op-ed, she spoke about being a victim of domestic violence.
Zack Sharf Judy Bellinger, the court stenographer during the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial, said in an interview with Law & Crime Network that she witnessed several jury members dozing off to sleep during the course of the trial, which started April 11 and ended June 1. Law & Crime Network earned millions of views online from live-streaming the trial. Bellinger said she saw jury members in both the front and back rows falling asleep.“It was tough,” Bellinger said.
Amber Heard is «not in a good place» following her ex-husband, Johnny Depp, winning his defamation lawsuit against her last week.Depp first filed his $50 million defamation lawsuit against Heard in March 2019 in response to an op-ed the 36-year-old actress wrote for the in December 2018 about being the victim of domestic violence. The article itself did not mention Depp by name, though their contentious 2016 divorce had been in the news over the previous two years.After a six-week trial, a jury in the Fairfax County Circuit Court of Virginia awarded Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. Depp's punitive damages, however, were reduced by the judge to $350,000 in accordance with the state's statutory cap.«Amber is not in a good place and is worried in general and financially speaking.
Amber Heard's sister Whitney Heard Henriquez shared a message of support after the actress lost the defamation trial against her ex-husband Johnny Depp. Depp sued Heard for defamation after the actress wrote an op-ed in 2018 where she referred to herself as a survivor of domestic abuse. Although she didn't mention Depp by name, the "Pirates of the Caribbean" actor claimed the article affected his career.
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Amber Heard‘s sister, Whitney Henriquez, is speaking out for the first time since Amber lost the defamation trial to her ex husband Johnny Depp.
Domestic abuse survivors fear "victims will be silenced" by the verdict of Johnny Depp's libel case against his ex-wife Amber Heard.
Attorney Elaine Bredehoft sounded off on "CBS Mornings" and NBC's "TODAY" show Thursday, one day after the defamation trial between actor Johnny Depp and actress Amber Heard concluded, and turned the verdict into a message about women and domestic abuse accusations going forward. In her CBS appearance, Heard's attorney described Depp's win as a "major setback for women," citing the actress's "enormous amount of evidence" and telling hosts Gayle King, Tony Dukoupil and Nate Burleson that a lot of that evidence was "suppressed." "Look at all the women who have no evidence," Bredehoft said, adding, "Basically, what this jury said is unless you pull out your cell phone, and you tape record your spouse beating you, you’re out of luck." The attorney also took to both channels to discuss the sway social media had on the jury's decision, telling NBC's "TODAY" show that the jurors undoubtedly witnessed the social media frenzy surrounding the high-profile case because "they have families" and personal lives, too.
Amber Heard‘s lawyer, Elaine Charlson Bredehoft, went on the Today show one day after the jury verdict found that Amber defamed Johnny Depp in her 2018 Washington Post op-ed about domestic violence.
Today.Host Savannah Guthrie asked Heard lawyer Elaine Charlson Bredehoft whether the “Aquaman” actress plans to appeal the stunning decision announced Wednesday.“Oh, absolutely,” Bredehoft said. “And she has some excellent grounds for it.”Bredehoft cited the U.K.
Zack Sharf Elaine Bredehoft, Amber Heard’s attorney in her defamation trial against Johnny Depp, appeared on “Today” in the aftermath of the verdict and said Heard will “absolutely” want to appeal the jury’s decision that was in favor of Depp. Bredehoft added, “She has some excellent grounds for it.”“She was demonized here,” Bredehoft added about Heard. “A number of things were allowed in this court that should not have been allowed, and it caused the jury to be confused.
Johnny Depp won his defamation case against Amber Heard as the Judge in Fairfax County, Virginia's courthouse read out the jury's verdict on June 1 in favour of the 58 year old star. The Pirates of the Caribbean actor won on all three counts of defamation in the trial, as Amber, 36, was ordered to pay $10million in damages. The Aquaman star was then told she had won on one of her countersuit claims, receiving $2million in damages.
While a jury delivered a verdict in the defamation trial between ex-spouses Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, the case isn’t necessarily over.
Amber Heard and Johnny Depp have shared statements after the jury ruled in Johnny's favour in the libel case.The jurors ruled in favour of Amber's ex husband Johnny, and awarded him $15 million in damages as they gave a verdict on Wednesday 1 June.The jury also ruled that Amber's countersuit case was unproven – but she was awarded $2million in damages for a statement Johnny's lawyer made about her. Following the announcement, Amber released a statement which read: “The disappointment I feel today is beyond words. I'm heartbroken that the mountain of evidence still was not enough to stand up to the disproportionate power, influence, and sway of my ex-husband.
Amber Heard said that the “disappointment I feel today is beyond words,” in her first public reaction to a jury’s verdict finding her liable for defaming ex-husband Johnny Depp in an op ed in The Washington Post.