Depp v. Heard | |
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Court | Fairfax County Circuit Court |
Full case name | John C. Depp, II v. Amber Laura Heard |
Started | April 11, 2022 |
Decided | June 1, 2022 |
Verdict | Depp's complaint: Heard was found liable in all three matters of defamation raised. Depp was awarded $10 million (of the $50 million claim) in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages (reduced to $350,000 per state law limit). Heard's counterclaims: |
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Judges sitting | Penney S. Azcarate (Bruce D. White ruled on pre-trial motions to April 2021).[1] |
John C. Depp, II v. Amber Laura Heard (CL-2019-2911) was a trial held in Fairfax County, Virginia, from April 11, 2022 to June 1, 2022 that ruled on allegations of defamation between previously married American actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. Depp, as plaintiff, alleged three counts[a] of defamation against defendant Heard claiming not less than $50 million in damages;[2] Heard filed counterclaims[b] against Depp claiming not more than $100 million in damages.[3]
After meeting in 2009, Depp and Heard were married from February 2015.[4] In May 2016, at an early stage in their divorce process, Heard claimed that Depp had abused her physically, which he denied.[5] In a separate libel trial, in which Depp sued News Group Newspapers Ltd over an article[6] published in The Sun, the presiding judge ruled against Depp stating that "the great majority of alleged assaults of Ms Heard by Mr Depp have been proved to the civil standard.[7] Several legal experts suggested that Depp had a smaller chance of winning in the US trial compared to the UK trial.[8][9]
In the Virginia trial, Depp's claims related to a December 2018 op-ed by Heard,[10] published in The Washington Post. Heard's statements in the op-ed included that she had spoken up against "sexual violence" and that "two years ago, [she] became a public figure representing domestic abuse" and Depp blamed the op-ed for new damage to his reputation and career.[2] Heard's counterclaims included allegations that a lawyer of Depp's had defamed her in statements published in the Daily Mail in 2020.[3] Throughout the trial, Depp's legal team sought to disprove Heard's abuse allegations and to demonstrate that she had been the instigator, rather than the victim, of intimate partner violence. Heard's lawyers defended the op-ed, claiming it to be factual and protected by the First Amendment.
The livestreamed trial attracted large numbers of viewers and considerable social media response. News articles about the case generated high levels of social media interaction and renewed debates around topics relating to domestic violence, the #MeToo movement, and women's rights.[11][12]
The jury ruled that Heard's op-ed references to "sexual violence" and "domestic abuse" were false and defamed Depp with actual malice and awarded Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages from Heard[13][14] although the court reduced the punitive damages to $350,000 due to a limit imposed by Virginia state law.[15] They also ruled that Waldman (Depp's lawyer) had defamed Heard by falsely alleging that she and her friends "roughed up" Depp's penthouse as part of a "hoax". They awarded Heard $2 million in compensatory damages and zero in punitive damages from Depp.[14][13] Separately, the jury ruled that Waldman's other allegations of Heard's "sexual violence hoax" and "abuse hoax" against Depp had not been proven defamatory.[14]
Background
Depp and Heard's relationship
Actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard met in 2009 while filming The Rum Diary; according to Heard, their relationship began "around the end of 2011 or early 2012".[4] They got engaged in January 2014 and married on Depp’s private island in the Bahamas in February 2015.[16] Heard filed for divorce on May 23, 2016, and obtained a temporary restraining order against Depp.[17][18][19] In response, he alleged that she was "attempting to secure a premature financial resolution by alleging abuse".[20] Heard testified about the alleged abuse at a deposition during their divorce litigation, alleging that Depp had been "verbally and physically abusive" throughout their relationship, usually while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.[21] The divorce received much publicity, with images of Heard's alleged injuries published by the media.[22]
A settlement was reached in August 2016, and the divorce was finalized in January 2017.[23] Heard withdrew the restraining order, and she and Depp released a joint statement stating that their relationship was "intensely passionate and periodically volatile, but always bound by love. Neither party has made false accusations for financial gain. There was never any intent of physical or emotional harm."[20]
Depp paid Heard a divorce settlement of $7 million, which she pledged to donate to the American Civil Liberties Union and the Children's Hospital Los Angeles.[24][25] The settlement included a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) preventing either party from discussing their relationship publicly.[26]
Depp v News Group Newspapers Ltd
In April 2018, UK tabloid The Sun published an article titled "GONE POTTY How Can J K Rowling be 'genuinely happy' casting Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film after assault claim?",[6] which originally described Depp as a "wife beater" in its online title.[c][20][27] In June 2018, Depp sued News Group Newspapers, the publisher of The Sun, and then executive editor Dan Wootton for libel.[20][27] Both Depp and Heard testified in the July 2020 trial, which focused on evaluating 14 alleged incidents of abuse.[28][29] In November 2020, judge Andrew Nicol ruled in favor of the publisher as the great majority of Depp's alleged assaults had been proven to a civil standard[7][30] and were found to be "substantially true".[29] The verdict found that Depp had assaulted Heard in 12 of the 14 alleged incidents and put her in fear of her life.[31][32]
After the verdict, Depp resigned from the Fantastic Beasts film series at the request of Warner Bros., its production company.[33] In March 2021, the Court of Appeal rejected Depp's request to appeal the verdict, concluding that the appeal had "no real prospect of success".[34] Lawyers for Depp had argued that he had not received a fair hearing and that Heard was an unreliable witness, but the appeals judges concluded he had a "full and fair" trial, and that "the judge based his conclusions on each of the incidents on his extremely detailed review of the evidence specific to each incident [...] in an approach of that kind there was little need or room for the judge to give weight to any general assessment of Ms. Heard's credibility."[34][35] According to The New York Times, the use of material from the UK trial has been limited in the US case, but the specifics have not been disclosed publicly.[32]
Heard's op-ed in The Washington Post
In December 2018, The Washington Post published an op-ed written by Heard and titled "Amber Heard: I spoke up against sexual violence—and faced our culture's wrath. That has to change."[10][20][36] In the article, Heard stated: "Then two years ago, I became a public figure representing domestic abuse, and I felt the full force of our culture's wrath for women who speak out. ... I had the rare vantage point of seeing, in real time, how institutions protect men accused of abuse."[20][37] She further stated that, as a result of this, she had lost a film role and an advertising campaign for a global fashion brand.[32] The op-ed called for Congress to re-authorize the Violence Against Women Act and did not explicitly mention Depp by name.[38]
Waldman's comments in the Daily Mail
Matters from Heard's counterclaims[3] pursued through the trial related to three statements made by Depp's lawyer, Adam Waldman, and published by the Daily Mail in April and June 2020.
First, Waldman stated that "Amber Heard and her friends in the media used fake sexual violence allegations as both sword and shield, depending on their needs. They have selected some of her sexual violence hoax 'facts' as the sword, inflicting them on the public and Mr. Depp."[13][14]
Waldman's second statement regarded a 2016 incident in Depp and Heard's Hollywood penthouse: "Quite simply this was an ambush, a hoax. They set Mr. Depp up by calling the cops but the first attempt didn't do the trick. The officers came to the penthouses, thoroughly searched and interviewed, and left after seeing no damage to face or property. So, Amber and her friends spilled a little wine and roughed the place up, got their stories straight under the direction of a lawyer and publicist, and then placed a second call to 911."[13][14]
Third, Waldman stated: "We have reached the beginning of the end of Ms. Heard's abuse hoax against Johnny Depp."[13][14]
Trial
In February 2019, Depp sued Heard over her December 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post.[2][38][39] Depp claimed that Heard's allegations were part of an elaborate hoax against him and repeated his allegation that Heard had been the one who violently abused him.[2][39] In August 2020, Heard countersued Depp, including the allegation that he had coordinated "a harassment campaign via Twitter and orchestrated online petitions in an effort to get her fired from Aquaman and L'Oréal."[3][40] The trial was held at the Fairfax County Circuit Court. The location was chosen on the basis that the online edition and the print edition of The Washington Post' op-ed are published in the county.[2][41]
Pre-trial developments
In June 2020, lawyers who withdrew from Heard's legal team[42] included the Time's Up founder, Roberta Kaplan.[43] In October 2020, the judge ruling on early pre-trial motions revoked permision for lawyer Adam Waldman to represent Depp in Virginia after Waldman leaked confidential information covered by a protective order to the media.[44] In August 2021, a New York judge ruled that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) had to disclose documents related to Heard's charity pledge to the organization[45][46] for which the ACLU would later demand payment.[47] Also in August 2021, Judge Penney S. Azcarate overruled a plea filed by Heard's lawyers for having the defamation suit dismissed on the basis of the verdict in Depp's lawsuit against the publishers of The Sun with Azcarate citing that: Heard had been a witness in the UK case (as opposed to a defendant), the facts alleged were different (Heard's allegedly defamatory statements were made after the English case commenced), and the parties had not been subject to the same discovery procedures as in the United States.[48][49] In February 2022, Azcarate ordered to permit the broadcast of courtroom proceedings.[50]
Actors Paul Bettany, James Franco, and Ellen Barkin and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk were mentioned as being expected to testify.[51][52]
Jury selection
On April 11, 2022, the trial began in Fairfax County, Virginia with a day to finalise jury selection.[53][54]
Opening statements
Opening statements were made on April 12, 2022. Lawyers representing Depp accused Heard of fabricating domestic abuse accusations about Depp to further her career, saying that Heard made the accusations because Depp had asked for a divorce.[51] They argued that, while Heard's 2018 op-ed did not mention Depp, it was clear by implication that it referred to him, and that Heard's writing in that article ("Then two years ago, I became a public figure representing domestic abuse") was a reference to her May 2016 restraining order request, in which she claimed that Depp had physically abused her. Depp's lawyers discussed Heard appearing in public with a bruised face on May 27, 2016, accusing her of staging the injury, citing that Depp had not met her since May 21, 2016, and witnesses did not see her with the injury immediately after May 21, 2016.[37]
Heard's lawyers claimed that Depp had physically and sexually abused Heard on multiple occasions during their relationship, usually triggered by his addiction to alcohol and drugs.[37][51][55] They accused Depp of seeking to "humiliate Amber, haunt her, wreck her career" with the Virginia lawsuit and to turn the case into a "soap opera".[51] They further argued that the First Amendment protected Heard's right to express her views in the op-ed, which was mostly focused on a broad discussion of domestic violence and did not explicitly mention Depp's name. Finally, Heard's lawyers stated that the allegations had not changed Depp's reputation, as they had become public knowledge two years prior to the op-ed, and that Depp had instead ruined his career in Hollywood himself with his drinking and drug use; this made him "unreliable" in the eyes of film studios.[37][55]
Testimony
Witness lists were submitted by both parties, prior to trial,[56][57] with both parties also submitting objections to the opposing party's proposed witness list.[58][59]
Witness testimony began on April 12, following the parties' presentation of their opening statements, and ended on May 26.
List of witnesses called by Depp for trial testimony from April 12, 2022.[60] |
Christi Dembrowski, Depp's sister and personal manager.[61] Isaac Baruch, Depp's neighbor during his marriage to Heard.[62] Brandon Patterson, the general manager of the Eastern Columbia Building.[62] Kate James, Heard's former personal assistant.[63] Laurel Anderson, Depp and Heard's therapist in 2015.[63] David Kipper, Depp's private physician.[64] Debbie Lloyd, who worked with Kipper as a nurse.[64] Sean Bett, Depp's security guard.[65] Keenan Wyatt, Depp's on-set audio technician since the 1990s.[66] Johnny Depp, plaintiff and counterclaim defendant.[67] Ben King, Depp's former house manager.[68] Tara Roberts, who had been the manager of Depp's island in the Bahamas at the time of the relationship.[69] Shannon Curry, a forensic psychologist hired by Depp's team.[69] Testimony of police officers, who had responded to a May 2016 incident between the couple.[70] Alejandro Romero, who works at the front desk of the Eastern Columbia Building in Downtown Los Angeles.[71] Christian Carino, who had previously been an agent for both Depp and Heard.[72] Laura Wasser, a divorce lawyer who represented Depp in 2016.[73] Terrence Dougherty, chief operating officer of the American Civil Liberties Union testified.[74] Edward White, Depp's accountant.[74] Malcolm Connelly, a security guard of Depp's.[75] Starling Jenkins, another of Depp's security guards.[76] Travis McGivern, Depp's bodyguard.[77] Jack Whigham, Depp's agent since October 2016.[78] Richard Marks, an entertainment lawyer.[79] Douglas Bania, an intellectual property expert.[78] Erin Falati, Heard's nurse during the relationship.[80] Michael Spindler, an economic damages expert.[81] |
List of witnesses called by Heard for trial testimony from May 3, 2022[82] (and following a May 9-12[83] mid-trial break). |
Dawn Hughes, a board-certified forensic psychologist who was hired by Heard's legal team as an expert in traumatic stress, violence, and abuse.[84] Amber Heard, defendant and counterclaim plaintiff.[85] iO Tillett Wright, who had been a friend of Heard and who lived in one of Depp's penthouses in the Eastern Columbia Building.[86] Raquel Pennington, who had been Heard's friend and who lived in one of Depp's penthouses.[87] Joshua Drew, who was Pennington's fiancé at the time.[88] Elizabeth Marz, an acquaintance of Heard.[89] Whitney Henriquez, Heard's younger sister.[87] Melanie Inglessis, Heard's former make-up artist and friend.[87] Kristina Sexton, Heard's former acting coach.[90] Bruce Witkin, Depp's longtime friend.[91] Tracey Jacobs, a UTA agent who represented Depp from the 1990s until 2016.[92] Joel Mandel, Depp's former business manager.[91] Ellen Barkin, who had a brief sexual relationship with Depp and had appeared with him in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998).[93] Michele Mulroney, Heard's former lawyer.[93] Tina Newman, a production executive representing Disney.[93] Adam Waldman, Depp's lawyer.[94] Jessica Kovacevic, Heard's former agent.[95] Ron Schnell, an expert witness on social media data analysis.[96] Alan Blaustein, Depp's former psychiatrist.[97] Richard Moore, an orthopedic surgeon called as an expert witness.[98] David Spiegel, a psychiatrist called as an expert witness.[99] Kathryn Arnold, an entertainment analyst called as an expert witness.[100] |
List of witnesses called by Depp in rebuttal for trial testimony from May 24, 2022.[101] |
Walter Hamada, the president of DC Films.[102] David A. Kulber, the surgeon who reconstructed Depp's finger in March 2015.[103] Richard Marks, entertainment lawyer and Hollywood expert.[104] Michael Spindler was recalled.[104] Douglas Bania, who had also testified earlier.[104] Morgan Night, the owner of a trailer park in Joshua Tree where Depp and Heard spent a night in May 2013.[105] Richard Shaw, a psychiatrist.[104] Jennifer Howell, the founder of The Art of Elysium and former friend of Heard's sister Whitney Henriquez.[105] Candie Davidson-Goldbronn, of the Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA).[106] Kate Moss, model who had a past relationship with Depp.[107] Shannon Curry, a forensic psychologist hired by Depp's team.[108] Johnny Depp, plaintiff and counterclaim defendant.[109] Morgan Tremaine, a former employee of celebrity website TMZ.[110] Bryan Neumeister, a forensic and metadata specialist.[111] Beverly Leonard, a police officer [at the time of an alleged incident in 2009].[112] |
List of witnesses called by Heard in rebuttal for trial testimony on May 26, 2022.[113] |
Julian Ackert, a computer forensic investigator.[114] Dawn Hughes, a board-certified forensic psychologist.[114] Amber Heard, defendant and counterclaim plaintiff.[115] |
Closing arguments
Depp's legal team
Depp's legal team maintained that Heard was the abuser in their relationship and that Heard's allegations against Depp were untrue and had ruined his life.[116][117] They asked the jurors to "give him his life back".[118] "You either believe all of it or none of it. Either Mr. Depp assaulted Ms. Heard with a bottle in Australia, or Ms. Heard got up on that stand, in front of all of you, and made up that horrific tale of abuse," lawyer Camille Vasquez told the jury. "An act of profound cruelty not just to Mr. Depp but to true survivors of domestic abuse."[118] Vasquez told the court that Heard "came into this courtroom ready to give the performance of her lifetime ... and she gave it."[117]
Vasquez also argued that Heard "burns bridges" and "her close friends don't show up for her," because, according to Vasquez, apart from Heard's sister, every person who personally testified on behalf of Heard was a "paid expert", whereas many witnesses personally testified for Depp in court.[119][120]
Heard's legal team
Heard's legal team maintained that Depp did abuse Heard, and that even if he did not abuse her, the op-ed was not libelous as it did not mention Depp by name nor directly address her allegations against him.[116] They told jurors to "think about the message that Mr. Depp and his attorneys are sending to Amber and victims of domestic abuse." "If you didn't take pictures, it didn't happen," Benjamin Rottenborn, a lawyer for Heard, said. "If you didn't seek medical attention, you weren't injured." He claimed Depp "cannot and will not take responsibility. [...] It's all somebody else's fault." He told jurors that "if Amber was abused by Mr. Depp even one time, then she wins."[117] Rottenborn accused Depp of "victim blaming at its most disgusting".[121]
Verdict
On June 1, 2022, after nearly two days of deliberations,[122] the jury found that Depp had proven all the elements of defamation for all three statements from Heard's 2018 op-ed, including that the statements were false, and that Heard defamed Depp with actual malice.[13][14] The jury awarded Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages from Heard.[123][124] The punitive damages, however, were reduced to $350,000 due to a limit imposed by Virginia state law.[15]
In regard to Heard's counterclaim, the jury found the second of the three contested statements that Depp's former lawyer Adam Waldman had published in the Daily Mail to be defamatory and false, defaming Heard with actual malice.[14][124][125] Regarding the other two contested statements, the jurors concluded that Heard's attorneys had not proven all the elements of defamation.[13][14][124] Heard was awarded $2 million in compensatory damages from Depp but no punitive damages.[13][126]
Reactions
The trial drew much attention from supporters of both Depp and Heard as well as the general public. At the start of the trial, several legal experts suggested that Depp had a smaller chance of winning than he did in the previous UK trial, citing the strong free speech protections in the US.[9][8]
Social media coverage
Data collected by Newswhip from April 4 to May 16, 2022, indicated that news articles about the trial had generated more social media interactions per article in the United States than all other significant news topics, including the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion on abortion and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[127] The livestreamed trial gained high viewing figures. The president of the Law&Crime network, Rachel Stockman, made a comparison that the consumption of coverage of the Depp v. Heard trial was significantly higher than that of the trial of Derek Chauvin in June 2021.[127]
Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram users expressed opinions about the case or rallied against others doing the same.[128][129][130] Those posting about the trial on social media were seen to mostly support Depp[128] and oppose Heard.[131][130] Videos carrying the hashtag #justiceforjohnnydepp had attained over 18 billion views on TikTok by the trial's conclusion.[132] BuzzFeed News reported that, between April 25 and 29, 2022, there were 1,667 posts uploaded to Facebook using the hashtag #JusticeForJohnnyDepp, with over 7 million total interactions, i.e., likes and shares between them. In comparison, Heard only had 16 posts in support, with 10,415 interactions. Additionally, on TikTok, videos tagged with #JusticeForAmberHeard had over 21 million combined views, while videos tagged with #JusticeForJohnnyDepp had over 5 billion combined views as of April 29.[128] Two of Heard's expert witnesses, psychiatrists Dawn Hughes and David Spiegel, had their WebMD profiles targeted by negative comments following their appearances during the trial.[133][99] Clips of the trial were used to create memes, compilation or reaction videos, with multiple such videos going viral.[134] A compilation of Heard's lawyer's repeated objections to Depp's testimony had gathered 30 million views on TikTok and 15 million views on YouTube as of April 29, 2022.[135] Other viral TikTok trends included videos of users acting out Heard's testimony, or making "aroused facial expressions" over her testimony of sexual abuse.[136][137]
Misinformation was widely shared, with researchers identifying bots artificially spreading content.[138] Many social media users falsely alleged that Heard copied quotes from the film The Talented Mr. Ripley in her testimony.[139][140] When other social media users further accused Heard of copying quotes from other films, Snopes concluded that many of the supposedly copied phrases were "brief" and "generic language that also happens to have turned up in movies", presenting a phenomenon of confirmation bias.[139] Widely-shared falsehoods that Heard was using cocaine on the stand were also disproven.[141][142] In May 2022, the media non-profit The Citizens and Vice World News reported that the conservative website The Daily Wire had spent between $35,000 and $47,000 on Facebook and Instagram advertisements and have promoted "misleading information about the trial" and "anti-Amber Heard propaganda".[143]
Commentary on social media response
Journalist Amelia Tait of The Guardian said that Heard v Depp had turned into "trial by TikTok", stating that the case had become "a source of comedy" on social media.[136] Similar themes were noted by journalists at BuzzFeed News,[128] The Independent,[129][137] and Vanity Fair.[144] Amanda Hess, a critic writing for The New York Times, opined that the broadcasting of the trial "is an invitation for the proceedings to be deliberately, even gleefully tailored to a viewer's whim", with Internet platforms like TikTok and YouTube being "practically built to manipulate raw visual materials in the service of a personality cult, harassment campaign or branding opportunity."[145] Shannon Keating, a culture writer and editor for BuzzFeed News, wrote that the "social media frenzy around this case was clearly fueled by savvy PR", bots, and conservative media advertising, with the result that "lots of people have happily accepted the propaganda as sacrosanct."[146]
Bill Goodykoontz of The Arizona Republic criticized the coverage of the trial on social media, stating that "Depp and Heard are real people with real problems, after all, not just meme fodder and hashtag subjects," and that "the vile nature of some of the misogynistic tweets and TikTok videos posted about Heard were toxic masculinity at its worst."[147] Katherine Denkinson of The Independent compared the backlash on social media against Heard and her supporters during the trial with Gamergate, claiming that "the anti-Amber train has been expertly commandeered by the alt-right."[148] Sunny Hundal of The Independent, commenting about positive online content about Depp and negative online content about Heard, opined that even as Depp "continued to entertain people during the trial", "being an entertainer doesn't automatically mean you're a good person. And yet many simply cannot get their head around this idea."[137]
Potential effect on jury
The intense coverage of the trial and the fact that it was live-streamed made it an unusual case.[149] Legal commentators criticized the fact that jury members in the trial were not sequestered and believe that the social media coverage may have had an influence on the final verdict.[149][150][151] During the trial, the judge asked the jurors to refrain from reading about the case online, even instructing them to turn off their cell phones for its duration. Paula Todd, a lawyer and media professor, raised the question of how many of the jury members would listen to the judge's instructions to avoid accessing online coverage.[152] Law professor Mary Anne Franks claimed that she encountered out-of-context, distorted depictions of the trial despite trying to avoid reading about it and stated that "it's crazy to think they are not going to be influenced by what's happening on social media."[153] Carl Tobias, a University of Richmond law professor, stated that "It wasn't a typical trial" and that he "was pretty surprised about the verdict". He also stated "I don't envy the judge—or the jurors—because it's hard to protect them from these influences" and stated that this case could have an effect on the role of juries and a person's right to a fair trial.[149]
The decision by Judge Azcarate to allow the trial to be televised has also been criticized. Michele Dauber, a professor at Stanford Law School stated that "Allowing this trial to be televised is the single worst decision I can think of in the context of intimate partner violence and sexual violence in recent history, it has ramifications way beyond this case."[154]
Comments by juror
Following the trial, a male juror was interviewed by Good Morning America.[155][156] He stated that "Social media did not impact us": "We followed the evidence. We didn't take into account anything outside ... They were very serious accusations and a lot of money involved. So we weren't taking it lightly."[157][158][159] He also commented that "none of us were really fans of either one of them."[157][160] Depp and Heard "were both abusive to each other" but that Heard's team failed to prove that Depp's abuse was physical. "They had their husband-wife arguments. They were both yelling at each other, I don't think that makes either of them right or wrong ... But to rise to the level of what she was claiming, there wasn’t enough or any evidence that really supported what she was saying".[157][161][162] The juror opined that Heard's testimony was not "believable" because it "seemed like she was able to flip the switch on her emotions", while Depp "seemed a little more real in terms of how he responded".[163]
To the verdict
Depp's reaction
Depp commented on his experience, saying, "six years later, the jury gave me my life back. I am truly humbled."[164][165] Depp also stated that he was "overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and the colossal support and kindness from around the world". He continued: "I hope that my quest to have the truth be told will have helped others, men or women, who have found themselves in my situation, and that those supporting them never give up."[166] Depp also highlighted "the noble work of the Judge, the jurors, the court staff and the Sheriffs who have sacrificed their own time to get to this point", and praised his "diligent and unwavering legal team" for "an extraordinary job".[167] His full statement, posted on Instagram, has gained over 19 million likes.[164][168]
Heard's reaction
Within minutes of the verdict, Heard released a statement that she was "heartbroken that the mountain of evidence still was not enough to stand up to the disproportionate power, influence and sway of my ex-husband".[169][170] She described the verdict as a "setback" for women, elaborating that it "sets back the clock to a time when a woman who spoke up and spoke out could be publicly shamed and humiliated", "sets back the idea that violence against women should be taken seriously", and also expressed sadness that "I seemed to have lost a right I thought I had as an American – to speak freely and openly."[170]
After the trial, a spokeswoman for Heard announced her plans to appeal the decision.[171][172] Heard's lawyer, Elaine Bredehoft, said that Heard could not pay the damages she owed to Depp and had "excellent grounds" for an appeal.[173][174]
Other reactions
On June 2, 2022, The Washington Post affixed an editor's note to Heard's 2018 op-ed to notify readers of the defamation suit and its outcome, reading, "On June 1, 2022, [...] a jury found Heard liable on three counts. [...] The jury separately found that Depp, through his lawyer Adam Waldman, defamed Heard in one of three counts in her countersuit."[175]
Various columnists, legal experts, and observers on social media reacted strongly to the verdict. Legal experts considered the verdict unusual; defamation suits by public figures are rarely successful in the United States, relevant case law being New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and the subsequent Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts.[176][177][178][179] New York Times reporter Jeremy W. Peters said that, in publishing allegations of abuse, "both [...] women and the press assume the considerable risk that comes with antagonizing the rich, powerful and litigious."[180] Psychology professor Jennifer Freyd, who coined the term Darvo (deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender), stated that "there has been a lot of Darvo" in this case, with "an overwhelming case for Depp on social media".[8] Dan Novack of The Atlantic argued that the verdict concluded a "fair trial" and was not a markedly different interpretation of the First Amendment, which he says remains "enormously protective of media reporting on credible accusations of sexual abuse. It is telling that Depp did not name the ACLU [...] or The Washington Post."[181]
Columnists, including feminist writers and researchers in intimate partner violence, considered the verdict a backlash against feminism and the #MeToo movement and predicted a chilling effect on the speech of those victims of domestic violence who might fear being sued for defamation or disregarded without extensive photographic and medical evidence.[182] Others argued that the verdict was in fact an expansion of #MeToo to male victims of intimate partner violence and a "victory in the battle against cancel culture".[183] Some were skeptical of the trial's long-term effect, arguing that the trial's context was too unusual to be indicative of #MeToo's reversal.[184] Leading sexual assault lawyer Debra Katz described the trial as having unique celebrity, "dysfunction", and "craziness" but judged that the Depp v. Heard verdict was less "consequential" to #MeToo compared to Harvey Weinstein losing his appeal for his rape conviction the next day.[185] Tarana Burke, generally considered the founder of #MeToo, tweeted that "The 'me too' movement isn't dead, this system is dead [...]. When you get the verdict you want, 'the movement works' – when you don't, it's dead [...] This movement is very much alive."[184] Jack Houghton, digital editor of Sky News Australia, wrote that Vasquez's cross-examination showed the public that Heard was not credible and further stated that the ruling that Waldman defamed Heard was "hardly a verdict that a cabal of sexist jurors would render".[186]
An April survey conducted by Morning Consult found that about 68% of US adults had "very" or "somewhat" favorable views of Depp, a number which had dropped to 56% after the trial. The drop was most pronounced among baby boomers, with a decrease from 59% to 37%, and least among Generation Z respondents, decreasing from 72% to 70%.[187]
Post-trial motions
On July 1, 2022, Heard's legal team asked the court to set aside the verdict in favor of Depp in its entirety, dismiss the complaint or order a new trial. Their arguments included that (1) Heard "never edited or played any role with the respect to the headline" and "never even became aware of the headline until Mr. Depp filed the lawsuit against her"; (2) that "Depp’s award was excessive" and that, though Depp had "represented to the court he would limit his damages to the period Dec. 18, 2018 through Nov. 2, 2020," he "continued to urge the jury to restore his reputation and legacy to his children as a result of Ms. Heard accusing Mr. Depp in May 2016 of domestic violence"; (3) one juror was listed as born in 1945 in a court list, despite public information "demonstrates that he appears to have been born in 1970".[188][189]
On July 13, 2022, Azcarate denied several of Heard's post-trial motions for "reasons stated on the record" but provided further explanation regarding the disputed juror.[54] She stated that the summons issued to the juror "listed his legal name and address and no birth date was noted", that the juror had provided his proper birth date when answering a court questionnaire and that Heard's legal team had neither alleged nor "shown evidence of prejudice" by the juror. She also noted that the parties had "questioned the jury panel for a full day and informed the court that the jury panel was acceptable"; and that "a party cannot wait until receiving an adverse verdict to object, for the first time, to an issue known since the beginning of trial."[190] She concluded that, "The only evidence before this court is that this juror and all jurors followed their oaths, the court’s instructions and orders. This court is bound by the competent decision of the jury."[54][190]
Notes
- ^ The 30 page, "John C. Depp, II, Plaintiff, v. Amber Laura Heard, Defendant. Civil Action No. 2019 02911" complaint of defamation[2] raised:
COUNT ONE—DEFAMATION FOR STATEMENTS IN MS.HEARD'S DECEMBER 18, 2018 OP-ED IN THE PRINT EDITION OF THE WASHINGTON POST (paras 74-84);
COUNT TWO—DEFAMATION FOR STATEMENTS IN MS.HEARD'S DECEMBER 18, 2018 OP-ED IN THE ONLINE EDITION OF THE WASHINGTON POST (paras 85-95);
COUNT THREE—DEFAMATION FOR STATEMENTS IN MS.HEARD'S DECEMBER 18, 2018 OP-ED WHICH HEARD REPUBLISHED WHEN SHE TWEETED A LINK TO THE OP-ED ON DECEMBER 19, 2018 (paras 96-106).
(Much of the contents are repeated between counts). - ^ Heard's counterclaims lawsuit[3] presented counts that claimed: personal immunity to civil liability (paras 55-61) and both defamation by Depp and agents (paras 62-72) and harassment by computer by Depp and agents (paras 73-79).
- ^ The article had an original online publication per stated time and date[6] and the change in the title used is then noted in Justice Nicol's trial judgement[7] paras 4 and 5.
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I consider this case to be a crucial turning point in the public discussion of intimate partner violence because it has shed light on hidden forms of intimate partner violence and men who are victims of it
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External links
- Op-ed written by Amber Heard for The Washington Post
- Fairfax County website: High-Profile Cases for Trial exhibits and the list of documents made available by the Circuit Court.
- YouTube playlists (with varying content) via: Law&Crime Network link and Sky News link