Depp-Heard, the trial ends with the acquittal of the actor

The trial involving Johnny Depp and ex-wife Amber Heard has finally ended. The verdict of the Fairfax, Virginia, court ruled that the plaintiff was vilified. Judge Penney Azcarate, after summoning the lawyers of both sides, invited the seven members of the jury to enter in the questionnaire the amount of compensation due to the victorious party. The trial therefore went in favor of the American actor who is now entitled to 15 million dollars in compensation. The actress Amber Heard following the announcement of her kept her gaze fixed on her, trying, with difficulty, to hold back the tears. She screams instead of the cheering crowd, waiting outside the building.

THE WHY OF THE PROCESS

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Depp accused Heard of destroying his career and reputation with an article in the Washington Post in 2018, demanding $ 50 million in compensation. In the article, actually written by lawyers from the civil rights organization American Civil Liberties Union, she, Amber, said she was a victim of domestic violence. After more than a year of litigation, the actress had counter-sued Johnny, asking for compensation of 100 million and claiming that she was defamed in her turn when his lawyer, Adam Waldman, had called her “a scam”. accusations of her.

THE PRE-VERDICT SITUATION

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Seven people – five men and three women – had to examine a myriad of elements to see if there was “clear and convincing evidence that the defamation was done with genuine malice.” Johnny Depp was not present at the reading of the verdict as he is still in Great Britain where yesterday he played with Jeff Beck at the Royal Albert Hall in London and a source close to the actor said: “Due to work commitments made before of the trial, he will not physically be in the courtroom, but will connect to watch the outcome of the dispute from the United Kingdom. ” This also reveals what were the different priorities of the two protagonists in question. On the one hand Johnny Depp away from the story both physically and mentally, on the other Amber who instead was waiting for the verdict inside the Court of Fairfax in Virginia, continuing to sting the actor: “Depp takes his cynicism and his lack of seriousness”. It was a trial that lasted six weeks, during which the actor and the ex-partner described from opposite points of view, a “marriage of horrors” made up of violence, jealousy, alcohol and drugs.

THEIR STORY

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Amber and Johnny had met in 2011 on the set of “The Rum Diary” and then married in 2015, but the union was wrecked almost immediately and in 2016 she had filed for divorce also obtaining an injunction from the judiciary to prevent the ex-husband could get close to her.