Amber Heard Appeals $10M Johnny Depp Defamation Verdict trends now
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Amber Heard has filed an appeal to the Virginia courts asking for a reversal of the decision or an entirely new trial in the sweeping defamation case against her ex-husband Johnny Depp, which she lost earlier this year.
Heard, 36, filed her appeal in early December and argued that the exclusion of some of her therapy notes, in which she reported being abused by Depp, resulted in an unfair trial. The notes were ruled out by Virginia Judge Penney Azcarate.
In June, Depp was awarded $10.35million in a verdict delivered after his legal team successfully argued that Heard's Washington Post op-ed, in which she accused her ex-husband of domestic abuse, was defamatory.
Amber Heard, 36, was ordered to pay her ex-husband more than $10million at the end of their weeks-long defamation trial that took place earlier this year - she has now filed an appeal
Depp and Heard were married for just 15 tumultuous months before they called it quits in 2016. The internal drama of their Hollywood affair was put on full display during a weeks-long trial in June
Depp's legal team has also filed to appeal the $2million he was ordered to pay his ex-wife for the single count of defamation of which he was found guilty
Now, in a 68-page document dated to late November, Heard's attorneys write that the court 'improperly prevented the jury from considering several instances in which Heard reported Depp's abuse to a medical professional.'
'If not reversed, the trial court’s exclusion of contemporaneous reports of domestic abuse to medical professionals will make it more difficult for other abuse victims to prove allegations of
