Amber Heard is «not in a good place» following her ex-husband, Johnny Depp, winning his defamation lawsuit against her last week.Depp first filed his $50 million defamation lawsuit against Heard in March 2019 in response to an op-ed the 36-year-old actress wrote for the in December 2018 about being the victim of domestic violence. The article itself did not mention Depp by name, though their contentious 2016 divorce had been in the news over the previous two years.After a six-week trial, a jury in the Fairfax County Circuit Court of Virginia awarded Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. Depp's punitive damages, however, were reduced by the judge to $350,000 in accordance with the state's statutory cap.«Amber is not in a good place and is worried in general and financially speaking.
Amber Heard's first witness iO Tillett Wright called: What Wright said on day 17 of defamation trial
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Amber Heard's first witness was called Tuesday and recalled a defecation incident during a pre-recorded deposition to the court. In a taped deposition from March 2022, iO Tillett Wright — an author, producer and longtime friend of Heard, 36 — testified during the ongoing defamation trial that he received a phone call from Heard on May 21, 2016, asking him to clear up the infamous fecal matter incident. Explaining the mess According to Wright, Johnny Depp, 58, had swung by the former couple’s penthouse to pick up some items about a month after he found what he described as human excrement in their marital bed following a massive fight.
"[Heard] said, 'Johnny thinks that you and I together defecated on his pillow,'" he recalled. "I think the words used were ‘s--- on his pillow,’ so I started laughing." He and Heard guffawed, enraging the "Pirates of the Caribbean" star. Depp launches into rage? Wright tried to explain that he wasn't at the apartment on the morning in question, then he heard a loud noise.
Wright mimicked the sound by smacking his closed fist into his hand. "The phone dropped, and he said to her, 'You think I hit you? You think I f---ing hit you? What if I peel your f---ing hair back?" Wright testified in a pre-recorded deposition. "I remember her screaming, and I hung up the phone," he said, as his eyes swelled with tears. He called her best friend, Raquel Pennington, who lived next door, then called the police.
Heard testified that Depp smashed her cellphone into her face. Wright further pressed that when he was under the influence of alcohol or drugs, Depp often turned "incredibly cruel and mean" and would hurl putdowns at his ex-wife. Writer iO Tillett Wright testified on behalf of Amber Heard in a
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Amber Heard is «not in a good place» following her ex-husband, Johnny Depp, winning his defamation lawsuit against her last week.Depp first filed his $50 million defamation lawsuit against Heard in March 2019 in response to an op-ed the 36-year-old actress wrote for the in December 2018 about being the victim of domestic violence. The article itself did not mention Depp by name, though their contentious 2016 divorce had been in the news over the previous two years.After a six-week trial, a jury in the Fairfax County Circuit Court of Virginia awarded Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. Depp's punitive damages, however, were reduced by the judge to $350,000 in accordance with the state's statutory cap.«Amber is not in a good place and is worried in general and financially speaking.
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trial has finally come to a close.The verdict came in on Wednesday afternoon in a Fairfax, Virginia, courtroom.The jury concluded that Heard, 36, must pay Depp, 58, $15 million in damages. They also found that he did defame Heard in her second claim and he must give her $2 million.In a lengthy statement to The Post, Depp said via a spokesperson: “Six years ago, my life, the life of my children, the lives of those closest to me, and also, the lives of the people who for many, many years have supported and believed in me were forever changed.”“All in the blink of an eye,” he continued.
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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.
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The jury in Johnny Depp’s defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard has reached a verdict, a court spokesperson said Wednesday. The verdict was set to be announced around noon PT in a Virginia courtroom after the panel spent three days deliberating over six weeks of grueling, emotional, and highly contradictory testimony.Court officials said the decision was to be read one hour after the announcement Wednesday that a verdict had been reached.Depp sued Heard for defamation, claiming her 2018 Washington Post op-ed – in which she identified as a victim of domestic abuse – trashed his career.
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Jury Reaches Verdict in Defamation Trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard
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Last month Depp testified that Heard’s domestic abuse allegations against him were “heinous” and “not based in any species of truth.”Depp was third on the list of potential witnesses for Monday’s proceedings. Last week saw a flurry of the former couple’s acquaintances testify, mostly via videotaped deposition that went by relatively quickly, so Depp’s appearance Monday seemed a good bet.Heard previously told the Fairfax, Virginia courtroom that she suffered cuts on her arm and feet from broken glass, and a bruised jaw from getting “clocked” by Depp after a violent fight in Australia.
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