For six weeks, the defamation case that actor Johnny Depp filed against his ex-wife Amber Heard transfixed the US, offering a rare instance of high-profile #MeToo charges and countercharges, including lurid accusations of physical abuse, being hashed out in the public spotlight of a courtroom
For six weeks, the defamation case that actor Johnny Depp filed against his ex-wife Amber Heard transfixed the nation, offering a rare instance of high-profile #MeToo charges and countercharges, including lurid accusations of physical abuse, being hashed out in the public spotlight of a courtroom.
On Wednesday, the seven-person jury in Fairfax, Virginia, found that Depp had been defamed by Heard when she described herself in a 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” Depp was awarded more than $10 million in damages.
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