Johnny Depp has filed an appeal brief against the verdict ruling that he has to pay Amber Heard $2 million (£1.7million) in damages following their defamation trial.
In June, after a lengthy hearing at the Fairfax County District Court,that Heard, 36, did defame the Pirates of the Caribbean actor in a 2018 op-ed for The Washington Post.
The article was about her experiences as a survivor of domestic abuse, which Depp’s lawyers said falsely accused him of being an abuser.was awarded $15m in total, broken down as $10m in compensatory damages and $5m in punitive damages.Meanwhile, Heard was awarded $2m in compensatory damages – and it is this verdict Depp wants to overturn.
However, in the appeal brief, his lawyers have argued that he should not be held liable for Waldman’s comments. The brief reads: ‘As a matter of law, Mr Waldman is an independent contractor, whose allegedly tortious conduct is not automatically attributable to Mr Depp.’ It adds: ‘The jury’s emphatic favorable verdict on all three defamatory statements alleged in his complaint fully vindicated Mr Depp and restored his reputation…However, the trial court was confronted with a number of novel and complex legal and factual issues, and although the trial court decided the vast majority of those issues sensibly and correctly, a few rulings were erroneous.
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