Depp wins the defamation suit against Heard

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1-06-2022, 22:41

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The jury found the well-known acotor Johnny Depp that was defamed by the well-known actress Amber Heard when she described herself in an op-ed as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.”

A jury in Virginia on Wednesday sided with the actor Johnny Depp in the trial against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, finding that Heard had defamed Depp in a 2018 op-ed, a verdict that handed the actor a victory in his long, messy battle over domestic abuse allegations.

The jury’s decision came after a six-week trial that transfixed the nation, with millions of people watching it on television or streaming it online as the two major Hollywood stars made charges and countercharges of physical abuse against one another in court, sometimes in lurid detail. It was one of the highest-profile civil cases of the #/MeToo era to go to trial.