Jury Awards Johnny Depp $15 Million in Defamation Case Against Amber Heard

usmagazine.com:

A jury has ruled in favor of Johnny Depp in the defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard after several weeks of testimonies.The judge announced that the jury awarded $10 million dollars to Depp, 58, in compensatory damages and $5 million dollars in punitive damages on Wednesday, June 1.

Depp was not present at the hearing. Heard, 36, for her part, was awarded $2 million in compensatory damages in her counterclaim against her ex-husband.The Pirates of the Caribbean star originally took legal action against his ex-wife two years after their divorce was finalized in 2016.

Heard penned an op-ed in December 2018 about her past history with abuse for The Washington Post. In response, Depp claimed that the article affected his career in Hollywood — even though it didn’t mention him by name.The Kentucky native previously filed a libel lawsuit against the U.K.

newspaper The Sun for referring to him as a “wife beater” in a 2018 article. Two years later, the High Court of Justice ruled that The Sun’s article was not libelous because Heard’s allegations were “substantially true.”During his spring 2022 trial against the Texas native, Depp argued that he lost out on multiple roles amid their split — and her allegations.