2:04 Jury awards Johnny Depp $15 million in damages in defamation suit against Amber Heard. Heard was awarded $2 million in a favourable ruling on one of her three countersuit claims.
NASCAR driver stuns racing fans with a move he learned playing Nintendo. The defamatory Waldman statement claimed Heard and her friends presented police with a “hoax” of abuse claims against Depp in 2016.
The jury ruled that when Waldman made the libellous statement, he was acting as a representative for Depp.
In the appeal, Depp’s lawyers claim “Ms. Heard presented no evidence at trial that Mr. Depp was personally involved in directing or making any of the three Waldman Statements.”
The appeal continues: “Indeed, Mr. Depp testified that he had never even seen the Waldman Statements prior to the filing of the Counterclaim in August of 2020.”
The appeal urged the court to reverse the counterclaim verdict but “otherwise affirm the judgment in Mr. Depp’s favor.”
In a statement following the decision, a spokesperson for Heard claimed “the court made errors that prevented a just and fair verdict consistent with the First Amendment.”
“While we realize today’s filing will ignite the Twitter bonfires, there are steps we need to take to ensure both fairness and justice,” said Heard’s spokesperson.