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Six months aft a assemblage ruled that Amber Heard was liable of defaming her ex-husband Johnny Depp, the histrion has filed an entreaty against the verdict. See what the histrion said astir the decision.
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Amber Heard says that the verdict successful the Johnny Depp defamation proceedings volition person a bigger effect connected much than conscionable her.
Six months aft a jury ruled that Heard was liable of defaming her ex-husband, the histrion has filed an entreaty Dec. 5 against the judgment.
In documents obtained by E! News, Heard stated that the verdict volition "undoubtedly volition person a chilling effect connected different women who privation to talk astir maltreatment involving almighty men."
As for the monetary damages ruled successful favour of Depp, the papers noted that "even if this Court were to disagree with each of the foregoing, the jury's grant to Depp of $10 cardinal successful compensatory damages and $5 cardinal successful punitive damages (statutorily reduced to $350,000) intelligibly is excessive fixed the constrictive time-frame for which Depp could recover."
Heard's entreaty besides referenced Depp's 2020 libel lawsuit against The Sun, who helium sued implicit an nonfiction successful which helium was labeled a "wife beater." Because a High Court justice ruled against the actor, Heard says that their defamation lawsuit should've ne'er made it to the courtroom.
"Another tribunal had already concluded that Depp abused Heard connected aggregate occasions," the papers read. "After Depp filed this case, the United Kingdom High Court of Justice ruled successful a abstracted defamation enactment brought by Depp that Heard's maltreatment allegations were true."
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Depp's $50 cardinal defamation suit brought against his ex—which ended with the verdict successful June after a six-week trial—stemmed from a 2018 effort Heard wrote for the Washington Post, successful which she described herself arsenic a "public fig representing home abuse." Although the nonfiction didn't notation Depp by name, his attorneys antecedently said successful tribunal documents that Heard's op-ed was each portion of an "elaborate hoax" created "to beforehand her career."
Moments aft the verdict was reached, Heard spoke retired astir the decision, calling it a "setback."
"The disappointment I consciousness contiguous is beyond words," the histrion wrote successful a June 1 connection shared to Instagram. "I'm heartbroken that the mountain of evidence still was not capable to basal up to the disproportionate power, influence, and sway of my ex-husband."
"I'm adjacent much disappointed successful what this verdict means for different women," she continued. "It sets backmost the timepiece to a clip erstwhile a pistillate who spoke up and spoke retired could beryllium publically shamed and humiliated. It sets backmost the thought that unit against women is to beryllium taken seriously."
E! News has reached retired to Depp's lawyers for comment.
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