A month after Johnny Depp won his multi-million defamation trial against Amber Heard, the ex-Pirates of the Caribbean star now officially faces the first attempt to smack down his legal victory, with a harsh one-two-punch.
24.06.2022 - 22:57 / deadline.com
Johnny Depp’s multi-million defamation suit against Amber Heard is over, but not really over if the Aquaman actress can pay a pricey bond.
In a short and sometimes tense hearing this morning in Judge Penney Azcarate’s Fairfax, Virginia courtroom, a final judgment in the explicit and high-profile trial that ended on June 1 was presented and entered into the docket (read it here). However, in a contentious back and forth with Azcarate, Heard’s main attorney Elaine Bredehoft sought to set a briefing schedule and more for a proposed appeal for her client in the civil case.
The Old Dominion judge bluntly told Bredehoft that if she wanted to appeal the verdict from the seven-person jury the lawyer would have to file motions with the court. Azcarate also informed Heard’s attorney that the Aquaman star will have to put up an $8.35 million bond with 6% interest per year for any appeal to formally move forward.
At the start of this month, Depp was awarded $15 million in damages by the jury in his $50 million defamation case. That sum awarded was almost immediately reduced to $10.35 million by Judge Azcarate in accordance with the state of Virginia’s punitive damages limitations. Oddly, while the jury found almost entirely for the former Pirates of the Caribbean star on June 1, they also awarded his ex-wife and Rum Diary co-star $2 million in damages out of Heard’s $100 million countersuit.
Though they both attended all of the six-week trial, neither Depp nor Heard were in the Virginia courtroom today. A later self-described “heartbroken” Heard had been in the room on June 1 when the verdict was read out. Choosing to spend his time touring the UK with Jeff Beck instead, Depp was absent for the verdict.
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Amber Heard went shopping with her sister at a TJ Maxx discount retail store in the Hamptons on Thursday, amid a looming $8.3 million judgment following her loss in court earlier this month against ex-husband Johnny Depp in their multi-million dollar defamation trial. The 36-year-old actress wore blue jeans and a long-sleeved, white button-down shirt while indulging in retail therapy with her younger sister, Whitney Henriquez, at the Bridgehampton location of the national chain retailer, per TMZ. According to the outlet, it's unclear what the two purchased — if anything — from the store. While Heard perused the aisles on the East Coast wearing black loafers with her blonde hair tied back in a bun, Depp has "moved on" from the trial, and took to the stage to perform with Jeff Beck at the Helsinki Blues Festival on Sunday in Finland.
Now that the defamation trial is over, Amber Heard is excited to just "be a mom." On Friday, Heard sat down with Savannah Guthrie for an hour-long interview for "Dateline." During the TV interview, the actress addressed her plans now that her defamation fight with her ex-husband Johnny Depp has concluded. "I get to be a mom, I get to be a mom full time," she told Guthrie. Amber Heard says she became a mom and did it "on my own terms" as a single parent. In an Instagram post, the actor said she welcomed daughter Oonagh Paige Heard April 8.
follow a 20-minute preview clip on Peacock, which showed Heard giving the NBC show numerous documents from a doctor that “represented years, years of real-time explanations of what was going on.”“There’s a binder worth of years of notes dating back to 2011 from the very beginning of my relationship that were taken by my doctor, who I was reporting the abuse to,” Heard told Guthrie in the segment. “Her notes represented years, years of real-time explanations of what was going on.”The documents, which are shown on-screen, detail one 2012 instance in which Depp allegedly “hit her, threw her against a wall and threatened to kill her,” according to “Dateline.”Eight months after that, Depp allegedly “ripped her nightgown, threw her on the bed,” according to the program, and in 2013, he reportedly “threw her against a wall and threatened to kill her.”However, Heard’s legal team was unable to admit the documents into evidence in the highly publicized trial as the judge had deemed them “hearsay.” A spokesperson for Depp, 59, has since responded to the interview, telling “Dateline” that the “Donnie Brasco” actor simply wants to move on with his life after winning the defamation case.
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Johnny Depp reportedly celebrated his Amber Heard trial verdict with a FaceTime call from Robert Downey Jr.On June 1 the Pirates of the Caribbean actor won his defamation case against his ex-wife following a six-week court battle.With the jury ruling in his favour, Depp was awarded $10million (£8million) in compensatory damages, plus $5 million (£4 million) in punitive damages.According to The New York Post, Depp celebrated the verdict in a hotel with friends, where he soon received a FaceTime call from his old friend Robert Downey Jr.The Iron Man star is said to have told Depp: “John, thank God it’s over,” with the actor’s rep confirming to The New York Post that the pair shared a FaceTime call following the announcement of the verdict.Depp and Downey Jr. are said to be long-time friends, having both raised to fame at the same time.Following the verdict Depp was seen performing onstage with his friend Jeff Beck during a gig in Sheffield.
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Savannah Guthrie made a startling admission in the middle of interviewing Johnny Depp's attorneys on the show -- her husband, Michael Feldman, worked as a consultant for the actor's legal team in his defamation trial.The 50-year-old co-anchor was setting up the interview during Wednesday's show and recapping the trial that saw Depp score a victory against Amber Heard in his defamation trial against her. As she introduced Depp's attorneys, Camille Vasquez and Benjamin Chew, Guthrie then offered «a quick disclosure.»«My husband has done consulting work for the Depp legal team, but not in connection with this interview,» she told viewers at home before beginning the interview portion of the segment.Feldman, who tied the knot with Guthrie in 2014, has deep ties in the Washington, D.C.
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