Following the decision within the dueling defamation fits filed by Amber Heard and Johnny Depp, the op-ed on the centre of his declare in opposition to her has been amended.
The Washington Publish has added an editor’s be aware to the article bylined by Ms Heard and initially revealed in each print and on-line on 18 December 2018.
Wednesday’s verdict in Fairfax County, Virginia, house to the information outlet’s servers, and therefore the situation of the trial, discovered Ms Heard liable for 3 counts of defamation in opposition to Mr Depp, her ex-husband with whom she had a troubled relationship between 2012 and 2016.
The article stays on-line, with the addition of the be aware, which begins: “In 2019, Johnny Depp sued Amber Heard for defamation arising out of this 2018 op-ed. On June 1, 2022, following a trial in Fairfax County, V. Circuit Court docket, a jury discovered Heard liable on three counts for the next statements, which Depp claimed have been false and defamatory.”
The statements embody the headline: “I spoke up in opposition to sexual violence — and confronted our tradition’s wrath. That has to alter.”
The 2 different sentences at situation within the courtroom case discovered to have defamed Mr Depp, are: “Then two years in the past, I turned a public determine representing home abuse, and I felt the complete pressure of our tradition’s wrath for ladies who converse out;” and: “I had the uncommon vantage level of seeing, in actual time, how establishments shield males accused of abuse.”
The editor’s be aware ends with the road: “The jury individually discovered that Depp, via his lawyer Adam Waldman, defamed Heard in certainly one of three counts in her countersuit.”
Ms Heard doesn’t point out Mr Depp by title within the article as an abuser and maintains the op-ed isn’t about him, one thing with which jurors in Virginia apparently didn’t agree.
After seven weeks of proof during which each Ms Heard and Mr Depp — in addition to a bunch of associates, household, staff, and professional witnesses — recounted very totally different variations of incidents throughout the tumultuous relationship, the jury deliberated for a complete of 13 hours.
Ms Heard has been ordered to pay her ex-husband $10.4m in damages and he’s to pay her $2m for the actions of his former lawyer Mr Waldman.
In response to her lawyer Elaine Bredehoft, Ms Heard will attraction.
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