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02.06.2022 - 02:57 / foxnews.com
Johnny Depp emerged victorious in his defamation case against his ex-wife Amber Heard on Wednesday with a jury awarding the actor $15 million following a wildly public seven-week trial that heard shocking allegations of abuse from the plaintiff and defendant. Millions were glued to their seats, watching the trial on television, via social media and through numerous channels each extracting insight and opinion from the masses at every turn.
After sitting through arguments from both sides, the seven-member jury panel – composed of five men and two women – also ruled in favor of Heard, in part, finding that Depp had defamed her through his attorney.They awarded her $2 million in compensatory damages. Johnny Depp fans erupted in cheers as his lead lawyers, Ben Chew and Camille Vasquez, exited the courthouse and gave a brief statement. "Today's verdict confirms what we had said from the beginning that the claims against Johnny Depp are defamatory and unsupported by any evidence.
We are grateful, so grateful to the jury for their careful deliberation, to the judge and the court staff," Vasquez said. Chew said his team was "truly honored" to represent Depp and "pleased the trial resonated for so many people in the public who value truth and justice." Following the jury verdict, many celebs took to their own social media and other platforms to weigh in on the ruling.
Sherilyn Fenn told Fox News Digital in a statement: "I am deeply happy that the truth has come out. It is justice for the attack on John Christophers’ life. Let the healing begin." Sherilyn included a red heart emoji in her response.
Well, this is a statement!
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.
Amber Heard has spoken out about the impact of social media following her defamation lawsuit with Johnny Depp. The actor sued Ms Heard for $50m after she wrote an opinion piece in 2018 implying he abused her.
Good Morning America and The Today Show on Wednesday (June 8) to discuss the highly-publicised trial, which saw Depp awarded $10million (£8million) in compensatory damages.“Social media played no role whatsoever [in the jury’s verdict],” Chew told Good Morning America presenter George Stephanopoulos [via Vanity Fair]. “This was a decision made by the jury on the evidence presented by both sides, and as Camille said [earlier in the interview], it was overwhelmingly in Mr.
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Back on stage. Johnny Depp played a few songs with his friend Jeff Beck days after winning his defamation trial against Amber Heard.
Zack Sharf Jeff Beck announced during his June 2 concert in the English city of Gateshead that he’ll be releasing a new album with Johnny Depp next month. The album will mark Depp’s first major project released since the end of his highly-publicized defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard. Depp bowed to the crowd during Beck’s announcement.“I’m gonna take this opportunity and tell you I met this guy five years ago, and we’ve never stopped laughing since,” Beck told the crowd about Depp (via Stereogum).
a jury awarded Depp $15 million in his defamation case against his ex-wife, while Heard was only awarded $2 million. In her statement following the trial, Heard wrote that the decision “sets back the clock to a time when a woman who spoke up and spoke out could be publicly shamed and humiliated.
Amber Heard is going to appeal the verdict from Johnny Depp’s defamation case against her. “Absolutely,” Heard’s attorney, Elaine Charlson Bredehoft, told 's Savannah Guthrie on Thursday when asked if her client plans to appeal Wednesday’s verdict. “And she has some excellent grounds for it. We even had tried to get the U.K.
Johnny Depp won the defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard on Wednesday following a nearly seven-week trial in Virginia amid allegations of domestic violence and sexual assault. A seven-member jury declared Heard defamed Depp on all counts, and awarded the "Pirates of the Caribbean" star $5 million in punitive damages, in addition to $10 million in compensatory damages.
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.
Johnny Depp’s defamation case against Amber Heard have ruled in favor of the actor’s claims.After weeks of testimony from the pair as well as outside witnesses, Depp, 58, won all three counts of his bombshell defamation lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard, 36, on Wednesday after a Virginia jury substantiated the claim that his ex-wife sullied his reputation and damaged his career when she wrote about becoming a “public figure representing domestic abuse” following the couple’s split in the Washington Post in 2018.In November of 2020, a London judge sided against Depp in his libel suit against The Sun after they published the 2018 op-ed piece. Depp later filed suit against Heard, individually, with allegations of defamation stemming from her WaPo essay, which she wrote in partnership with the ACLU.
reactions playing off the repeated word.Many approved of the jury’s ruling in Depp’s favor, particularly because of the way Heard went about shaping her angle of the story.“Make no mistake – majority of the ppl supporting Depp do not think he’s an angel,” one user wrote. “But the mere fact that she went so hard with these ridiculous allegations and SHE acted like she was an angel; that’s the reason ppl are going so hard for him.”A woman who falsely accuses a man makes it harder for every woman to come forward and be believed.
Zack Sharf Amber Heard is disappointed “beyond words” regarding the verdict to Johnny Depp’s defamation lawsuit against her. The jury in the trial ruled that Heard defamed Depp when she wrote a 2018 Washington Post op-ed alluding to her past claims of domestic violence. Heard is now ordered to pay $15 million in damages to Depp.“The disappointment I feel today is beyond words,” Heard wrote in a statement.
Johnny Depp's defamation trial against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, has reached a verdict. After deliberating for around 14 hours across three days, the jury decided in unanimous fashion that Depp was defamed by Heard and that she «acted with actual malice,» bringing the six-week long case to an end.Just minutes before the verdict was set to be read, Judge Penney Azcarate sent the jury back to fill out the damages section, adding even more suspense on Wednesday in Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia.