Depp Verdict: What Really Happened?
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Actor Johnny Depp wins his defamation suit against his ex-wife, actress Amber Heard. The jury found unanimously that Heard's published op-ed describing her as a "public figure representing domestic abuse” tarnished Depp's reputation and damaged his career.
Amber Heard did win the second of her three counts in a $100 million counterclaim. The jury found that Depp's attorney Adam Waldman defamed Heard when he told the Daily Mail that Heard had set up Depp in a hoax when police answered a domestic call at their home in May 2016.
The jury awarded Heard $2 million dollars. Depp was awarded $10.35 million: $10 million in compensatory damages and $350,000 in punitive damages. Deliberations took about 13 hours.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime stories with Nancy Grace |
| 0:14.0 | Well, the verdict is in and it was not a very long verdict watch, was it? |
| 0:20.0 | Many people thought the jury may be |
| 0:23.0 | Out until tomorrow may come back late late this afternoon |
| 0:27.0 | Not true. This jury had their minds made up. |
| 0:32.0 | I've seen jurors deliberate for days and days and days. |
| 0:36.0 | So you think they're never going to come back with a verdict |
| 0:39.0 | And when they do, it will probably be a hung jury. |
| 0:42.0 | No, this jury turned it around in a matter of hours. |
| 0:46.0 | Long story short, Johnny Depp wins. |
| 0:50.0 | The blockbuster case against his ex-wife Amber Hurd. |
| 0:55.0 | You know her from Aquaman. |
| 0:57.0 | The jury ruling that she defamed him with claims of physical and sex violence. |
| 1:04.0 | Now, hold on and ain't ever yet. |
| 1:07.0 | The jury also found for her in a much lesser way. |
| 1:12.0 | The jury said that Johnny Depp's lawyer made a defamatory statement about Amber Hurd |
| 1:19.0 | and awarded her a couple million dollars as well. |
| 1:24.0 | So long story short regarding the money. |
| 1:28.0 | Johnny Depp is celebrating right now in the UK claiming, |
| 1:32.0 | quote, the jury gave me my life back. |
| 1:35.0 | He is going to walk away even though he was awarded $15 million |
| 1:39.0 | with about $8.35 million. |
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