A 7-person jury in Virginia reached a verdict Wednesday regarding Johnny Depp’s defamation lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard, who had countersued Depp.
Jurors read the verdict aloud in the Fairfax County courtroom, finding that Heard defamed Johnny Depp when she wrote a 2018 opinion article for the Washington Post on almost every count. The jury awarded compensatory damages of $10 million and $5 million in favor of Depp.
Jurors also ruled that Depp has to pay $2 million to Heard. It ruled in favor of a counterclaim Heard had filed after Johnny Depp’s lawyer called her abuse allegations a hoax.
The “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor had sued Heard for $50 million in damages over a 2018 Washington Post opinion article in which Heard claimed she had become a “public figure representing domestic abuse,” although she did not mention Depp by name. His attorneys, however, argued that it referred to allegations that she made during their 2016 divorce proceedings….