{"id":23680,"date":"2022-06-03T14:38:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T04:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=215678"},"modified":"2022-06-03T14:38:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T04:38:52","slug":"amber-heard-appeal-defamation-ruling","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/amber-heard-appeal-defamation-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Amber Heard Plans To Appeal Defamation Ruling According To Attorney"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week a seven-person jury ruled that Amber Heard defamed Johnny Depp<\/a> in a 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post,\u00a0<\/em>ordering the actress to pay $10.35 million USD in compensatory and punitive damages. Elaine Charlson Bredehoft, an attorney for Heard, told NBC’s\u00a0The Today Show<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>that they plan to appeal the verdict.<\/p>\n

“That’s because she was demonised here,” the attorney said on national television overnight. “A number of things were allowed in this court that should not have been allowed, and it caused the jury to be confused.”<\/p>\n

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Bredehoft added that Heard was “absolutely not” able to pay the $10.35 million USD in damages. She also noted that their legal team was not allowed to mention the 2020 libel case in the UK where the court found Depp committed at least 12 counts of domestic violence against Heard.<\/p>\n

Following the verdict on Wednesday, Heard took to social media to express how disappointed she was with the result. \u201cThe disappointment I feel today is beyond words,\u201d the actress wrote. \u201cI\u2019m heartbroken that the mountain of evidence still was not enough to stand up to the disproportionate power, influence and sway of my ex-husband.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued, \u201cI\u2019m even more disappointed with what this verdict means for other women. It is a setback.\u201d<\/p>\n

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