A jury has ruled in favour of Johnny Depp in his libel lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard, who had accused him of abuse.
After a blockbuster celebrity trial lasting six weeks, Hollywood star Johnny Depp has won his defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard.Pirates of the CaribbeanJohnny Depp and Amber Heard during the trial in a Virginia court.He was awarded $US15 million – far less than the $US50 million damages he’d sought, while Heard was awarded $US2 million over a defamatory comment made by Depp’s former lawyer.
Immediately after the verdict she issued a statement saying: “the disappointment I feel today is beyond words”. Depp also issued a statement thanking the jury and describing the “seismic impact” Heard’s initial claims had on his life and career. The verdict brings to an end one of the most gripping and confronting defamation cases in recent years.op-ed written by Heard titled, “I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change.”
While the jury ruled overwhelmingly in favour of Depp, it also found that one of the three statements at the centre of Heard’s lawsuit, made by his ex-lawyer, had indeed been defamatory, and awarded her $2 million. Depp then texted: “Let’s drown her before we burn her!!! I will f–-- her burnt corpse afterwards to make sure she’s dead.”On most days, the Fairfax County District Courthouse is an otherwise uneventful legal precinct tucked away in a quiet corner of northern Virginia, about 40 minutes from the nation’s capital.
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