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Hollywood stars Johnny Depp and Amber Heard have been in the spotlight for the wrong reasons since their relationship hit the rock in 2016.
The estranged couple, who first met on the set of the 2011 film The Rum Diary, got married in 2015 and divorced in May 2016 after Heard filed for a divorce.
Depp, 58, first sued Heard, 36, for $50 million over an op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post on December 18, 2018, where she referred to herself as a public figure representing domestic abuse.
She didn’t name Depp in the article titled “I Spoke Out About Sexual Violence — And Faced Our Culture’s Wrath. That Has to Change”, but his team says the inference points at the actor as an abuser. He claims Heard’s allegations are false and cost him lucrative movie roles.
Heard countersued the ‘Pirates of the Carribean’ star for $100 million claiming defamation after the actor’s lawyer, Adam Waldman called her accusations a hoax.
During the trial that lasted six weeks, Heard and Depp accused each other of repeated physical abuse throughout their tumultuous relationship before it fell apart.
The trial ended with a verdict on Wednesday, June 1, 2022, with the jury ruling that both Depp and Heard were defamed.
The jury awarded Depp $15 million in compensatory and punitive damages. The judge, however, capped the punitive damages at total of $10.35 million in accordance with legal limits. The jury also awarded Heard $2 million in damages.
Heard in a statement shortly after the ruling said “I’m sad I lost this case. But I am sadder still that I seem to have lost a right I thought I had as an American – to speak freely and openly.”
Depp in statement shared on his Instagram page also said “I hope that my quest to have the truth be told will have helped others, men or women, who have found themselves in my situation.”
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Source: TheNet
