Clear Winner in Johnny Depp Defamation Case
Vanessa Khan
Johnny Depp’s Legal Team Embracing one another as the verdict was announced by the jury in Fairfax, VA.
FAIRFAX, VA -(RYM)- After weeks of a very long, and telling trial that swept across screens all over the world, a verdict has been made in the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard Defamation Case. Leaving Johnny the clear winner on all of his claims winning a total of $15 Million.
“Depp, who was not in court Wednesday due to a previously scheduled work commitment, sued for $50 million in damages over a 2018 opinion-editorial essay by Heard in The Washington Post, in which she said she had become a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” Although the essay never mentioned Depp by name, his attorneys said it indirectly referred to allegations she made against him during their 2016 divorce.
The jury unanimously found that Heard could not substantiate her allegations against Depp and that she knew her claims of abuse were false when she published her 2018 essay.”
Immediately following the verdict Johnny Depp took to social media to make his first statement.
“six years later the jury gave me my life back. ”
Following the verdict Heard made a statement via her publicist on her social media as well. note she won on one of her claims a total of $2 Million
With a toal of $17 Million won in both cases, it is clear that the winner was Johnny Depp.