Depp Wins and the Jubilee Weekend
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Johnny Depp has won his libel case against Amber Heard – he’s been awarded $15m in damages. Amber Heard has also won one of her counterclaims for defamation against her ex-husband and has been awarded $2m. The BBC’s Nomia Iqbal is outside the courtroom.
Also, Newscast marks the Queen's Platinum Jubilee with Roman Kemp, who’s hosting the Party at the Palace this weekend, as he deliberates over the dress code. As the number of letters of no confidence in Boris Johnson tick up, Iain Dale and Ayesha Hazarika join Adam to assess whether Partygate has done permanent damage to the PM. And ahead of kick-off at Scotland v Ukraine, we hear from a Scotland fan and a Ukraine fan who are travelling to Hampden Park together for the World Cup play-off. Today's Newscast was made by Daniel Wittenberg, with Chris Flynn, Miranda Slade and Alix Pickles. The technical producer was Michael Regaard. The assistant editor was Alison Gee.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, I'm at the theatre and it's the interval and I just got the push alert from BBC News |
| 0:12.3 | about the Johnny Depp Amber Hurd trial and Johnny Depp has won his defamation case against |
| 0:18.4 | his former wife Amber Hurd, but Amber Hurd has won one of her counterclaims for defamation |
| 0:23.6 | against him. |
| 0:24.6 | He's been awarded $15 million in damages and she will get $2 million. |
| 0:29.6 | Here's the BBC's nomiatic bout who is outside the courtroom in Fairfax County in Virginia. |
| 0:36.6 | The reaction outside court was quite something. |
| 0:38.4 | You have a lot of Johnny Depp supporters out here. |
| 0:40.8 | They've been here for the six week trial. |
| 0:43.0 | It is overwhelmingly been in support of him and they started shouting and yelling and cheering |
| 0:47.9 | and shouting, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny. |
| 0:50.2 | He brought this six week court case after an opinion piece that Amber Hurd wrote in 2018 |
| 0:54.8 | for the Washington Post in which she talked about what it was like to be a victim of domestic |
| 0:59.6 | abuse. |
| 1:00.6 | She never named him in the article. |
| 1:02.4 | He claimed it ruined his career that it led to reputational damage. |
| 1:07.2 | He sued her for $50 million. |
| 1:09.8 | She brought a counterclaim against him. |
| 1:12.7 | She claimed that he defamed her when he and his ex-lawyer called her allegations of abuse |
| 1:18.1 | a hoax. |
| 1:19.1 | So basically both of them were suing each other, accusing each other of defaming one another. |
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