A union boss has accused Rishi Sunak of "silly posturing" instead of working to resolve industrial disputes across the country.
19.12.2022 - 19:19 / deadline.com
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s long legal battle appears to be over.
In a lengthy post on social media Monday morning, the Aquaman star revealed her “very difficult” decision made with “a great deal of deliberation” to settle the defamation suit with her ex-husband.
In her Instagram post (read it below), Heard also said that the agreement provided “an opportunity to emancipate myself from something I attempted to leave over six years ago and on terms I can agree to.” She went on to write: “I have made no admission. This is not an act of concession. There are no restrictions or gags with respect to my voice moving forward.”
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Today’s announcement comes less than a month after Heard and her new legal team launched a formal appeal of the June 1 verdict that found heavily against her in a Virginia court. Following weeks of bitter and often lurid testimony by both parties, Depp was awarded $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages by the panel. Before releasing the Fairfax County jury, Judge Penny Azcarate reduced the punitive damages figure to $350,000, the maximum allowed in the state. Bizarrely, while handing Heard a stunning loss, the jurors also gave her $2 million counterclaim award.
That counterclaim award and the First Amendment proved the potential wedge by which Heard’s constitutional-law specialists Ballard Spahr LLP attorneys hoped to succeed in an appeal. Complicating matter, part of the requirements of an appeal in Virginia is that Heard would have to pay an $8.35 million bond with 6% interest per year before she could move forward. Money, from all indications, the actress did not have, a well place source tells Deadline.
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A union boss has accused Rishi Sunak of "silly posturing" instead of working to resolve industrial disputes across the country.
One of the biggest entertainment stories of 2022 was the defamation trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. Yes, it was mostly an exercise in trashy, tabloid-y fodder, but it did seem to end with the public consensus that Depp was somehow a decent guy.
Amber Heard and Johnny Depp have agreed a settlement in their defamation dispute. The former couple were embroiled in a six-week trial earlier this year over an op-ed the 'Aquaman' star wrote in 2018 about being a victim of domestic violence, with the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' star ultimately winning over $10 million in damages after winning all three of his defamation claims and his ex-wife awarded $2 million after winning one of her three countersuit claims. And now the pair's lawyers have agreed a deal which will see the 36-year-old actress' insurance company pay $1 million to her ex-husband to end the case.
Johnny Depp was trying to make a point!
If this is a sign of things to come, this war of words will probably never end.
Amber Heard says that her 'life is destroyed' as she hands Johnny Depp $1million in damages after a court ruled that she made defamatory claims about the actor.
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Officially the end. Amber Heard and Johnny Depp have settled their Virginia defamation lawsuit following a high-profile legal battle.
Putting the feud to rest. Amber Heard has officially settled with Johnny Depp amid their contentious defamation lawsuit.
is settled. After a highly-publicized and tense trial in Virginia earlier this year, the jury agreed that both exes defamed each other. Heard to pay Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages.
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