Amber Heard has to pay Johnny Depp $15 million after losing case

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The most mediatic and miserable trial season is over for now. After six weeks of civil litigation in a court in Fairfax County, Virginia, and 13 hours of deliberation over three days, the seven members of the public jury reached their verdict. cross accusations between Johnny Depp and a spouse between 2015 and 2016, heard amberthis Wednesday they made their decision, some A resounding victory for the hero of the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ saga and only a partial victory for the ‘Aquaman’ actress.

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  • Johnny Depp wins defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard

Depp, 58, sued Heard, 36, after he published a column in the Washington Post in 2018. In this column, without explicitly mentioning the actor, Heard described himself as a representative public figure. domestic violence. The actress assured that the impact of this article was “devastating” for her career and reputation, and asked for $ 50 million.

The jury agreed with him. It found that the three statements under investigation in this case were false, defamed the player and made in bad faith by Heard. Before reaching the desired number of players, they thought: Heard must pay $10 million in damages and five more in penalties..

In Heard’s case, which responded with another defamation case to three statements made by a Depp lawyer to the media, which the actress described as “false”, the jury found the actress liable for defamation on only one of those statements. his lawyer. They were fined $2 million in damages, more than the $100 Heard had demanded..

The actor, who had traveled to England over the weekend and attended a Jeff Beck concert, did not return to the United States for the verdicts to be read. Heard appears in court in Fairfax He apologized this Wednesday and during the reading of the resolutions.”

The decision puts an end to the legal dispute between Depp and Heard for now. resources cannot be ignored.. In any event, the reputation of the two has undoubtedly been tarnished by seven weeks of litigation. He revealed in very elaborate and contradictory versions a relationship that had clearly become turbulent and toxic. and, above all, put the actor’s personalities and actions, including his addictions, under the microscope.

Heard denounced from the podium sexual assaults and a “pattern of violence” that Depp repeatedly and stubbornly rejects. Despite the attacks attributed to him in a case in the UK in 2020, which the judge ruled there was evidence of at least 12 of the 14 people who lost his defamation suit against British tabloid ‘The Sun’ for calling his wife an ‘abuse’, the former accused his wife of being the person who physically and verbally assaulted him.

The trial came true phenomenon in media and social networks, where the overwhelming support for the actor parallels the attacks and taunts of the actress. That’s why there are societal wounds beyond those that affect translators. For example, numerous voices specializing in working with victims of gender-based violence, To sound the alarms because of the impact that the social reaction seen in this process can have on women who are victims of abuse.. They warn that there will be those who cease to condemn because of Heard’s harsh treatment.

Added criticism to an article in ‘Vanity Fair’ this Tuesday Monica LewisA woman who feels the effects of public scrutiny and ridicule in her flesh when her sexual relationship with Bill Clinton during her US presidency becomes the center of a political scandal.

Lewinsky reassures his work: “We are all guilty”focused more on the way “gossip, news and entertainment” is presented and consumed through social networks. I remembered that on Tik Tok, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, many people do not follow the live broadcast, but through little information bubbles, images, videos and memes… “We are getting rid of critical thinking and replacing it with easy emotion. This messy consumption does not allow for any real understanding,” he wrote.

Lewinsky goes even further, and the work also “because it’s available on our court screens, we subconsciously feel we have the ‘right’ to look, see and judge and comment.” And he concludes: “It would have been sad enough if this legal demonstration had only affected the private lives of Depp, Heard, and their loved ones; Considering how it affects survivors of domestic violence and those seeking power in the MeToo movement,” but was more concerned with the “broader implications” in culture: flames of misogyny and separately, the famous circus”.

The most mediatic and miserable trial season is over for now. After six weeks of civil litigation in a court in Fairfax County, Virginia, and 13 hours of deliberation over three days, the seven members of the public jury reached their verdict. cross accusations between Johnny Depp and a spouse between 2015 and 2016, heard amberthis Wednesday they made their decision, some A resounding victory for the hero of the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ saga and only a partial victory for the ‘Aquaman’ actress.

Related

  • Johnny Depp wins defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard

Depp, 58, sued Heard, 36, after he published a column in the Washington Post in 2018. In this column, without explicitly mentioning the actor, Heard described himself as a representative public figure. domestic violence. The actress assured that the impact of this article was “devastating” for her career and reputation, and asked for $ 50 million.

The jury agreed with him. It found that the three statements under investigation in this case were false, defamed the player and made in bad faith by Heard. Before reaching the desired number of players, they thought: Heard must pay $10 million in damages and five more in penalties..

In Heard’s case, which responded with another defamation case to three statements made by a Depp lawyer to the media, which the actress described as “false”, the jury found the actress liable for defamation on only one of those statements. his lawyer. They were fined $2 million in damages, more than the $100 Heard had demanded..

The actor, who had traveled to England over the weekend and attended a Jeff Beck concert, did not return to the United States for the verdicts to be read. Heard appears in court in Fairfax He apologized this Wednesday and during the reading of the resolutions.”

The decision puts an end to the legal dispute between Depp and Heard for now. resources cannot be ignored.. In any event, the reputation of the two has undoubtedly been tarnished by seven weeks of litigation. He revealed in very elaborate and contradictory versions a relationship that had clearly become turbulent and toxic. and, above all, put the actor’s personalities and actions, including his addictions, under the microscope.

Heard denounced from the podium sexual assaults and a “pattern of violence” that Depp repeatedly and stubbornly rejects. Despite the attacks attributed to him in a case in the UK in 2020, which the judge ruled there was evidence of at least 12 of the 14 people who lost his defamation suit against British tabloid ‘The Sun’ for calling his wife an ‘abuse’, the former accused his wife of being the person who physically and verbally assaulted him.

The trial came true phenomenon in media and social networks, where the overwhelming support for the actor parallels the attacks and taunts of the actress. That’s why there are societal wounds beyond those that affect translators. For example, numerous voices specializing in working with victims of gender-based violence, To sound the alarms because of the impact that the social reaction seen in this process can have on women who are victims of abuse.. They warn that there will be those who cease to condemn because of Heard’s harsh treatment.

Added criticism to an article in ‘Vanity Fair’ this Tuesday Monica LewisA woman who feels the effects of public scrutiny and ridicule in her flesh when her sexual relationship with Bill Clinton during her US presidency becomes the center of a political scandal.

Lewinsky reassures his work: “We are all guilty”focused more on the way “gossip, news and entertainment” is presented and consumed through social networks. I remembered that on Tik Tok, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, many people do not follow the live broadcast, but through little information bubbles, images, videos and memes… “We are getting rid of critical thinking and replacing it with easy emotion. This messy consumption does not allow for any real understanding,” he wrote.

Lewinsky goes even further, and the work also “because it’s available on our court screens, we subconsciously feel we have the ‘right’ to look, see and judge and comment.” And he concludes: “It would have been sad enough if this legal demonstration had only affected the private lives of Depp, Heard, and their loved ones; Considering how it affects survivors of domestic violence and those seeking power in the MeToo movement,” but was more concerned with the “broader implications” in culture: flames of misogyny and separately, the famous circus”.

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